Job vacancy: Paediatric Dietitian Band 6, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, London

Job summary

Main area: Paediatric Dietitian
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity leave cover from December 2025)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 197-UT7241

Employer: Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: University Hospital Lewisham
Town: London
Salary: £38,682 - £46,580 per annum plus HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 10/09/2025 23:59

Paediatric Dietitian Band 6

Band 6

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Job Summary:

The post holder will work with our Band 7 Paediatric Dietitian at QEH providing a specialist paediatric dietetic service including paediatric oncology and HDU working as an integral part of the MDT.

Clinical responsibilities will include:-

Working on the children’s ward, including supporting the new 4 bedded HDU
Holding biweekly outpatient clinics both face to face and virtual group sessions
Working on the 4 bedded inpatient paediatric oncology shared care unit and supporting the oncology MDT

You will support the nutritional management children referred to the service by providing specialist advice, education and support to patients, careers and other professionals both within and outside the hospital. This post is accountable to the Head of Nutrition and Dietetics

Key Result Areas & Performance:

To provide high quality, highly complex nutritional and dietetic advice as required.

To work as an integral part of the paediatric multi-disciplinary team, liaising with all members to advise on treatment and dietary management for children and their families/carers on a regular basis.

To be responsible for the safe discharge of children into the community including those that might require enteral feeding.

To develop and be involved in the production of evidence based written materials and teaching resources as required and ensure their regular review. Ensure the availability of culturally appropriate information. Use patient forums to refine materials.

To develop, implement and audit innovative methods of delivering education and behaviour change, including working in groups

To ensure safe practice through development of caseload management plan taking into account risk management and documentation.

To identify and report clinical risk issues as outlined in the trust policy and when required, research and prepare reports regarding clinical risk / clinical incidents.

To be responsible for ensuring that patients and carers have consented prior to dietetic intervention in line with professional guidelines.

To research, develop with the use of patient forums, audit and publish evidence based departmental literature for use within and outside of the trust.

To take responsibility for ongoing clinical excellence through evidence based practice and development of standards, policies and guidelines in conjunction with the Trust standards committee.

To keep accurate ‘real time’ records of dietetic contacts

To act as a specialist resource for health professionals in both statutory and voluntary sectors

Workforce

To participate in the operational and strategic planning for the nutrition service for children within the trust.

To assist the department in general dietetics as dictated by the needs of the service and covering for other colleagues in their absence.

To achieve, forge and maintain links with staff working in Primary Care in nutrition support

To attend and actively participate in BDA and non-BDA specialist interest groups meetings contributing to the strategic direction of dietitians in these specialist areas.

To be an active team member of the department of Nutrition and Dietetics at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, participating in departmental developments and projects and attending monthly staff meetings, and continuing professional development sessions.

To participate fully in Individual Performance Development and develop a strategy for Continuing Professional Development encompassing a portfolio based assessment, in line with national legislation.

To be competent in use of information technology, formulation of databases for research and audit purposes and competent in the use of nutritional databases for determination of nutritional adequacy.

To work as part of the Dietetic Team, participating in service developments and attending relevant staff meetings.

To maintain strict confidentiality of patients records in accordance with the Trust GDPR guidance and HPC Code of Practice.

To maintain state registration and professional liability insurance to cover all working practices.

To have an understanding of the Trust’s Health & Safety, Confidentiality, Equal Opportunities and Data Protection policies and be aware of responsibilities.

Financial

Costs need to be taken into account when advocating the use of specialist nutritional products, both for inpatients and in recommendations for community prescribing.

Responsibility also involves looking after expensive feeding and anthropometric equipment, and informing managers as regards usage of costly nutritional products.

Partnerships

Main working relationships include:

Medical Practitioners
Nursing Staff, Clinical Nurse Specialists, School nurses & Health Visitors
Catering Staff
Pharmaceutical Staff
Speech Therapists
Physiotherapists
Psychologists and Clinical Chemistry
Dietitians
Community agencies (e.g. Home Enteral Nutrition Team, Home Care companies)

Communication involves:

Working closely with the extended Paediatric Multidisciplinary Team both inpatient and outpatient discussing patient sensitive information

Ability to utilise developed communication and teaching skills to educate the diverse and multicultural population with barriers to understanding the essential, highly complex artificial nutrition support and related procedures.

Formal Presentations to colleagues and student training

To be actively involved in the training of undergraduate and postgraduate multidisciplinary students, both within and outside of the trust. This includes active participation in the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics’ training and assessment of student dietitians.

Presentation of research and audit within the Trust and also at regional, national and international medical and dietetic meetings and conferences.

To initiate, organise and implement training and education sessions trust-wide as appropriate, regarding new policies. To carry out training in person, or arrange external trainers.

To produce teaching materials and patient literature for use within and outside of the Trust.

Person specification

Qualifications & Training

Essential criteria

BSc in Dietetics or equivalent
Current State Registration
Post graduate training in paediatrics /diabetes / nutrition support / cognitive behavioural therapy

Experience

Essential criteria

Dietetic Experience – minimum 2 years as a Band 5
Experience of training student dietitians
Working as part of a team
Paediatric Dietetic experience

Desirable criteria

Paediatric Dietetic Oncology Experience
Conducting Audits and or research

Knowledge & Skills

Essential criteria

Sound Clinical knowledge
Evidence of CPD
Sound knowledge of current issues of dietetics
Good communication
Organisational Skills
Presentation skills
Time Management
Maintain confidentiality
Prioritise own work load
Able to work under own initiative
Ability to liaise with professionals at all levels
Computer Literacy
Demonstrate understanding of equal opportunities

Desirable criteria

Able to achieve deadlines

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

To ensure fairness and manageable shortlisting processes, some vacancies may have an application cap. This means the vacancy will close once a set number of applications have been received even if this happens before the advertised closing date.

We recommend applying as early as possible to avoid missing out. All applications received before the cap is reached will be considered equally and assessed against the person specification.

Documents to download

Apply online now

Further details / informal visits contact

Name

Laura Kaar

Job title

Paediatric Dietitian (current post holder)

Email address

[email protected]

Telephone number

02088365062

Additional information

Sarah Cooke

Lead Paediatric Dietitian

[email protected]

T:02083333314

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