Job summary
Clinical Lead Dietitian - Critical Care!
This post will be offered as a Band 6 or Band 7 depending on experience
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and experienced Clinical Lead Dietitian to join our dynamic team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This role will lead the dietetic service within our 15-bed combined Level 2 and Level 3 Critical Care Unit at King's Mill Hospital.
This is a pivotal role offering the chance to shape and deliver high-quality nutritional care in a complex clinical environment. The successful candidate will provide expert leadership, contribute to service development, and work closely with the multidisciplinary team to ensure optimal patient outcomes.
We are seeking a registered dietitian with substantial experience in acute care, ideally with prior exposure to critical care settings. You should demonstrate strong leadership skills, clinical expertise, and a commitment to evidence-based practice.
Applications are also welcomed from Band 6 Specialist Dietitians who are ready to take the next step in their career. For the right candidate, the post may be offered at Band 6 with appropriate support and development opportunities.
Main duties of the job
- Lead and manage the dietetic input into critical care services.
- Provide expert clinical assessment and nutritional management for critically ill patients.
- Support and mentor junior staff and students.
- Contribute to service evaluation and quality improvement initiatives.
- Collaborate with medical, nursing, and allied health professionals to deliver integrated care.
About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please read the attached full job description and person specification in the additional documents section.
Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK
Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9th April, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please read the attached full job description and person specification in the additional documents section.
Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK
Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9th April, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- Qualified Dietitian (4 year degree, post-graduate diploma or equivalent).
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.
Desirable
- Leadership/management training.
- Member of relevant BDA specialist group
- Relevant post-graduate course or equivalent
Skills, Knowledge & Personal qualities/attributes
Essential
- Excellent verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills including explaining, negotiating, motivating and training
- Able to work as lead member of dietetic and multiprofessional teams, building relationships with patients/carers, and other staff.
- Able to handle sensitive and confidential information.
- Able to overcome difficulties in communication, including language barriers, and adapt approach to varying situations
- Able to overcome barriers to understanding
- Able to make decisions within own work role guided by broad policies and guidelines, with support from multi-professional team and Dietetic manager
- Able to interpret and evaluate complex information from a variety of sources using professional judgement to solve problems and make decisions where there are a range of options, including both clinical and strategic issues.
- Able to plan and organise workload of self and others, including daily tasks and longer term strategic planning, despite interruptions and changing priorities.
- Provides supervision and support to other dietetic staff and students where required.
- Able to participate in audit and research activity.
Desirable
- Demonstrates strong leadership skills
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of working as a registered dietitian relevant to specialist area.
- Able to lead in the development, review and implementation of relevant policies and service development, recognising and responding to wider strategic concerns.
- Experience of multi-disciplinary/ multi-professional team working
- Experience in training and supervision of student dietitians
- Experience of managing/supervising others
Desirable
- Additional depth of theoretical knowledge to masters level or equivalent.
- Experience of other elements of management
Contractual Requirement
Essential
- Flexibility to meet the demands of the service.
- Able to travel to required areas within and beyond the Trust.
- Able to use a computer keyboard and relevant computer programmes such as word, PowerPoin
- Understands and uses hospital and other systems required to support patient care.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- Qualified Dietitian (4 year degree, post-graduate diploma or equivalent).
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.
Desirable
- Leadership/management training.
- Member of relevant BDA specialist group
- Relevant post-graduate course or equivalent
Skills, Knowledge & Personal qualities/attributes
Essential
- Excellent verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills including explaining, negotiating, motivating and training
- Able to work as lead member of dietetic and multiprofessional teams, building relationships with patients/carers, and other staff.
- Able to handle sensitive and confidential information.
- Able to overcome difficulties in communication, including language barriers, and adapt approach to varying situations
- Able to overcome barriers to understanding
- Able to make decisions within own work role guided by broad policies and guidelines, with support from multi-professional team and Dietetic manager
- Able to interpret and evaluate complex information from a variety of sources using professional judgement to solve problems and make decisions where there are a range of options, including both clinical and strategic issues.
- Able to plan and organise workload of self and others, including daily tasks and longer term strategic planning, despite interruptions and changing priorities.
- Provides supervision and support to other dietetic staff and students where required.
- Able to participate in audit and research activity.
Desirable
- Demonstrates strong leadership skills
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of working as a registered dietitian relevant to specialist area.
- Able to lead in the development, review and implementation of relevant policies and service development, recognising and responding to wider strategic concerns.
- Experience of multi-disciplinary/ multi-professional team working
- Experience in training and supervision of student dietitians
- Experience of managing/supervising others
Desirable
- Additional depth of theoretical knowledge to masters level or equivalent.
- Experience of other elements of management
Contractual Requirement
Essential
- Flexibility to meet the demands of the service.
- Able to travel to required areas within and beyond the Trust.
- Able to use a computer keyboard and relevant computer programmes such as word, PowerPoin
- Understands and uses hospital and other systems required to support patient care.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
