Team Lead Dietitian Intestinal Failure & Transplant

Band 7

Main area Team Lead Dietitian (Intestinal Failure and Transplant) Grade Band 7 Contract 12 months (Fixed Term / Secondment) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job
-MRC-8205254-B7

Site John Radcliffe Hospital Town Headington, Oxford Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum/pro-rata Salary period Yearly Closing 30/09/2026 23:59

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital
, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this
Delivering Compassionate Excellence
and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

Many of our recruitment programmes use
Value Based Interviewing
to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit

This position has arisen to backfill a staff member who has been successful in a predoctoral NIHR award for 12months. If you are a Band 7 dietitian looking to gain more leadership experience, or an experienced Band 6 looking to advance your career, we would love to hear from you.

This post offers great MDT working and the ability to advance knowledge and skills in intestinal failure and transplantation. You will also lead the team of 3 dietitians with support from fellow Team Lead Dietitians and MDT members.

This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the best teaching hospitals in the UK and offers the successful candidates the opportunity to gain valuable training so that they cannot only advance their careers but join a team that offers the very best in nutritional care.

We encourage every Band 7 to protect 30% of their time within the role to development, both individually and as a service. This can include quality improvement projects, clinical audit and CPD, as well as service development alongside the MDT.

As a valued member of ourteam,you will receive:

• Flexible working
  , including opportunities for home working
• Clinical supervision
  and support from experienced and specialist dietitians
• Dedicated time
  for professional and service development
• Regular appraisals and
  personalised development plan
• Access to a range of
  CPD opportunities
  , the Oxford AHPs Research & Innovation Unit, and Bodleian Library collection.

Provide a specialist, evidence based dietetic service to patients with intestinal failure (IF) who are referred for intestinal transplant (ITx) including their assessment, acute transplant period and long term follow up.

Provide a specialist dietetic service to patient with IF who may require parenteral or complex nutrition support plans.

Support colleagues to deliver dietetic care to patients at all phases of the intestinal failure patient pathway, within the trust, locally, nationally or internationally.

Lead, supervise and support a team of dietitians in the areas of parenteral nutrition (PN), IF and ITx. To initiate and lead discussion on organisational, professional and clinical issues relevant to the team.

Along with the Service Manager, be responsible for the dietetic…