Lead Dietitian

Location: Northaw

Are you a passionate Dietitian looking for an opportunity to lead, innovate and make a lasting difference to the lives of young people with eating disorders? Join Rhodes Wood Hospital as a Lead Dietitian and play a pivotal role in shaping and developing a high-quality dietetic service within one of the UK's leading specialist eating disorder services. In this senior leadership role, you will provide clinical and professional leadership for the dietetic service, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and evidence-based nutritional care for young people receiving treatment for eating disorders.

Working closely with multidisciplinary teams, you will help create personalised treatment plans that support recovery, improve health outcomes and promote long-term wellbeing. As the lead for dietetic services, you will act as the primary point of contact for nutritional care across the hospital, providing expert guidance to colleagues, patients and families. You will work collaboratively with catering teams to ensure specialist dietary requirements are met, support service users during mealtimes and act as a visible role model for staff by promoting best practice in eating disorder care.

You will play a key role in driving service development and quality improvement, using audits, research and outcome measures to continuously enhance the effectiveness of the service. This includes maintaining quality dashboards, contributing to CQUIN requirements, presenting findings to colleagues and implementing evidence-based improvements that support excellent patient care. Alongside your clinical responsibilities, you will lead, support and develop the dietetic team, fostering a culture of collaboration, learning and continuous improvement.

You will provide supervision, performance support and professional development opportunities, participate in recruitment activities and ensure effective service cover is maintained across the department. As a senior member of the multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to clinical governance, service development initiatives and patient council meetings, while delivering regular education and training sessions for both staff and service users. You will also work closely with Elysium partner sites to share best practice, strengthen professional networks and support Rhodes Wood Hospital's reputation as a centre of excellence in eating disorder care.

To be successful in this role, you will have:
Qualifications Minimal 5 years qualified experience A degree / postgraduate diploma (or equivalent) in Dietetics, registration with HCPC (Health Care Professions Council) and membership of the BDA (British Dietetic Association) and Member of the BDA Mental Health Specialist Group - it will be your responsibility to keep up with any membership fees. Experience Management and Leadership course certification or equivalent Experience in the field of mental health evidenced by sound clinical knowledge As desirable, experience and/or understanding of the eating disorders treatment for children and young people.

Experience of working in inpatient/acute settings would also be beneficial Sound understanding of dietetic practice, clinical governance and quality improvement. Comprehensive knowledge of nutritional rehabilitation, refeeding syndrome, enteral feeding and physical health monitoring in eating disorders. Excellent knowledge of NICE guidance and evidence-based interventions for eating disorders. Knowledge of safeguarding, Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act principles relevant to inpatient CYPMHS settings.

Where you will be working Location :
Rhodes Wood Hospital. Shepherds Way, Hatfield AL9 6NN
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