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Main area
Dietetics
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
164-8323388
Employer
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
QMC campus
Town
Nottingham
Salary
£57,528 - £64,750 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
10/11/2026 23:59

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Advanced Dietetic Practitioner – Paediatric Metabolics

Band 8a

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced dietitian to join our team as an Advanced Dietetic Practitioner - providing dietetic clinical leadership across Metabolic services at Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH).  The successful candidate will be joining an expanding multi-professional team to develop a regional paediatric metabolic service with Leicester in a joint venture to form the East Midland’s Paediatric Metabolic Service (EMPMS). The individual will hold a clinical caseload and be responsible for developing the service while working collaboratively with the MDT. As an Advanced Dietetic Practitioner, you will be responsible and accountable for the strategic planning, managing and provision of a highly specialist, clinically effective, safe and cost effective dietetic service to the Paediatric Metabolic service at NUH. You will act as an independent dietetic practitioner supporting the pathway of paediatric patients affected by Metabolic disorders where dietary treatment is the cornerstone of their treatments.   You will provide expert opinion, advice and guidance to dietetic and consultant colleagues and other health professionals and lead on regular service development and audits.

Main duties of the job

You will be expected to work with the EMPMS Regional Lead Nurse to provide a specialist metabolic dietetic service at NCH through strategic planning and service delivery. Working autonomously, you'll support pathways for Children and Young People with Inherited Metabolic Disorders, demonstrating initiative and innovation in service advancement. You'll provide regular expert advice to the wider metabolic MDT, incorporating research and education with evidence-based practice and advanced clinical judgment. Key responsibilities include managing a clinical caseload, providing daily operational support to team members, leading the team for effective and efficient service delivery, developing caseload management plans, identifying treatment priorities in complex situations, ensuring safe practice, and contributing to the learning of other dietitians while supporting leadership and management teams.

Working for our organisation

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to full job description and person specification. 

·         To provide clinical leadership & advanced practice in the management of patients under the care of NUH within a specialist area.

 

·         An autonomous HCPC registered team member providing a high standard of assessment and treatment/management of patients, some of whom may have acute, complex and/or chronic presentations in allocated area.

 

·         The post holder’s job responsibilities are aligned with the requirements of the career framework and four pillars of practice.

 

·         All HCPC registered professionals are professionally and legally responsible / accountable for all aspects of own and delegated work.

 As an autonomous professional we expect all HCPC registered professionals to be aware of the current HCPC professional standards and be able to evidence these as part of the re-registration process

Person specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Profession Specific Degree
  • Current registration with professional body such as NMC or HCPC
  • Post-registration master’s level award or equivalent; and/or accreditation with relevant clinical governing body eg Centre for Advanced Practice
Desirable criteria
  • Mentor/assessor and/or teaching qualification
  • Service Improvement methodology training e.g QSIR
  • Successful completion of a leadership course

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant demonstrable theoretical and practical experience of working as a registered practitioner within relevant specialty, allowing autonomous patient management, related to clinical scope of practice, i.e. to assess; diagnose; plan; implement and/or evaluate treatments
  • Experience of managing staff performance, training and development, with evidence of recent teaching, mentorship, and supervision of healthcare staff
  • Evidence of recent quality improvement; service improvement and/or change management.
  • Evidence of involvement in research and audit projects, implementing evidence-based practice within specialty

Communication and relationship skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work within, and provide leadership to, the multi-professional team, effectively communicating to establish and maintain relationships
  • Ability to motivate, train and teach, supporting training pathways for multi-professional learners across NUH.
  • Ability to communicate and present complex information in written and verbal formats, to individuals or groups.

Analytical and Judgement skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to effectively identify and manage clinical issues within defined procedures and guidelines.
  • Ability to critically engage in research activities so that evidenced-based strategies are developed and applied to service improvements and redesign
  • Ability to assess and manage risk where there may be complex/unpredictable events, ensuring safety of staff and service users

Planning and Organisation skills

Essential criteria
  • Adaptability according to the needs of the patient/s, service and organisation, safely prioritising workload to support demand in accordance with specialty/Trust pressures
  • Ability to identify learning needs and opportunities for self and for others and organise own learning and development across the 4 pillars of advanced practice

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Gianna Blaauw
Job title
Clinical Specialist Dietitian
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07812276574
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