Paediatric Team Lead Dietitian

Job Summary

Clinical Lead Paediatric Dietitian (Band 7, 0.8 WTE)

Are you passionate about making a real difference in children's lives? So are we!

If you are an experienced and forward thinking paediatric dietitian ready to take the next step in your career, then we'd love to hear from you. Join our friendly, dynamic multidisciplinary team and help shape outstanding nutritional care for children and young people. You'll be well supported by Dietetic Managers and within the MDT. This is a great opportunity to develop your skills and competencies, including research goals.

We also welcome informal chats or visits to the department.

What You'll Do:

• Lead and develop high-quality paediatric dietetic services.
• Support and develop junior staff and students
• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary teams
• Drive service improvements through a proactive, flexible and patient-centred approach
• Lead a service that provides outpatient and inpatient dietetic services.
  
  

About You:

You'll be passionate about improving outcomes for children and families, confident in leading others, and eager to shape future services.

Main duties of the job

You will act as an expert and autonomous Paediatric Dietitian, leading the planning, delivery, and development of high-quality paedia

tric nutrition and dietetic services across Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. You will provide specialist dietetic care to paediatric inpatients and outpatients, undertaking complex assessments and evidence-based management for children with a range of acute and chronic conditions.

As team leader for the paediatric dietetic specialty, you will oversee day-to-day operations, staff supervision, and service development. You will play a key role in clinical governance, developing policies, guidelines, and educational resources, and ensuring continuous service improvement. Your role will include providing expert advice and education to patients, families, and the wider multidisciplinary team, as well as supporting staff and student training within the wider dietetic service.

About Us

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our eve

ryday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

Details

Date posted

27 February 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

C9365-26-0136-2

Job locations

Charles Hastings Way

Worcester

Worcestershire

WR5 1DD

Job Description

Job responsibilities

Job Summary The post holder will work as an expert autonomous Paediatric Dietitian, managing a specialist and often complex caseload across inpatient wards, outpatient clinics and MDT settings. They will assess, plan, implement, and monitor evidence-based nutrition care plans, ensuring safe, effective, and person-centred practice. Responsibilities include l

iaising with specialist centres, leading on home enteral feeding discharges, and communicating complex dietary advice sensitively to children, families, and the wider MDT.

The post holder will supervise, support, and develop junior staff and students, contribute to policy and guideline development, and promote high standards of clinical governance, safety, and service quality. They will actively participate in education, training, audit, and service improvement initiatives, maintaining up-to-date specialist knowledge through CPD.

As paediatric specialty lead, the post holder will manage day-to-day service operations, staff performance, and workload planning, contributing to strategic service development and innovation. They will uphold Trust and professional standards, ensuring compliance with HCPC and BDA codes of conduct, safeguarding, infection control, and health and safety requirements.

Job Description

Job responsibilities

Job Summary The post holder will work as an expert autonomous Paediatric Dietitian, managing a specialist and often complex caseload across inpatient wards, outpatient clinics and MDT settings. They will assess, plan, implement, and monitor evidence-based nutrition care plans, ensuring safe, effective, and person-centred practice. Responsibilities include liaising with specialist centres, leading on home enteral feeding discharges, and communicating complex dietary advice sensitively

to children, families, and the wider MDT.

The post holder will supervise, support, and develop junior staff and students, contribute to policy and guideline development, and promote high standards of clinical governance, safety, and service quality. They will actively participate in education, training, audit, and service improvement initiatives, maintaining up-to-date specialist knowledge through CPD.

As paediatric specialty lead, the post holder will manage day-to-day service operations, staff performance, and workload planning, contributing to strategic service development and innovation. They will uphold Trust and professional standards, ensuring compliance with HCPC and BDA codes of conduct, safeguarding, infection control, and health and safety requirements.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Significant post-graduation experience in the NHS in paediatrics.
• Be able to assume leadership responsibilities.
• Experience of working in specialist areas as part of a team.
• Experience of implementing evidence-based practice for continuous service improvement.
• Experience of supervising staff.

Experience of appraising others.

Experience of teaching students and healthcare professionals.

Experience in implementing clinical governance.

Evidence of active participation in audit.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Sound clinical knowledge in a specialist clinical area.
• Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy skills.
• Evidence of excellent verbal communication skills including active listening skills.
• Evidence of dealing with sensitive communication issues and barriers to communication.
• Evidence of excellent written skills.
• Evidence of communication skills of empowerment and dealing with barriers to change.
• Evidence of clinical reasoning skills relating to working with complexities.
• Able to research evidence-based practice and apply to practice.
• Ability to train students to graduate level.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Evidence of training professionals in formal and informal settings.
• Ability to hold group patient education sessions.
• Evidence of effective multidisciplinary team working.

Evidence of dealing with situations when individuals show anxiety, anger, emotional distress.

Evidence of delivering a high-quality patient-centred service.

Highly developed problem-solving skills.

Ability to maintain patient confidentiality.

Excellent computer literacy skills: email, data input, internet, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel.

Qualifications

Essential

• Dietetic degree
• Post-graduate modules in dietetic paediatrics
  
  

Person Specification

Essential

• Dietetic degree
• Post-graduate modules in dietetic paediatrics
  
  

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 f

or 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).

Employer details

Employer name

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Charles Hastings Way

Worcester

Worcestershire

WR5 1DD

Employer's website

https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Charles Hastings Way

Worcester

Worcestershire

WR5 1DD

Employer's website

https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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