Lead Dietician

Job summary

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 coMain duties of the jobAre 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.

About us Elysium Health care has over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 80 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move. Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each persons individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure

Details

Date posted
26 August 2026

Pay scheme

Other Salary
48,000 a year

Contract Permanent Working  pattern

Full-time

Reference number

Job locations

Elysium Healthcare

HertfordshireAL9 6NN
United Kingdom Job description

Job responsibilities

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  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…