Paediatric Team Lead Dietitian

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

The closing date is 24 February 2026

Clinical Lead Paediatric Dietitian (Band 7, 0.8 WTE)

Are you passionate about making a real difference in children’s lives? So are we!

If you are an experienced and forward thinking paediatric dietitian ready to take the next step in your career, then we’d love to hear from you. Join our friendly, dynamic multidisciplinary team and help shape outstanding nutritional care for children and young people. You’ll be well supported by Dietetic Managers and within the MDT. This is a great opportunity to develop your skills and competencies, including research goals.

We also welcome informal chats or visits to the department.

What you’ll do:

• Lead and develop high-quality paediatric dietetic services.
• Support and develop junior staff and students.
• Work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams.
• Drive service improvements through a proactive, flexible and patient‑centred approach.
• Lead a service that provides outpatient and inpatient dietetic services.

About you:

You’ll be passionate about improving outcomes for children and families, confident in leading others, and eager to shape future services.

You will act as an expert and autonomous paediatric dietitian, leading the planning, delivery, and development of high‑quality paediatric nutrition and dietetic services across Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. You will provide specialist dietetic care to paediatric inpatients and outpatients, undertaking complex assessments and evidence‑based management for children with a range of acute and chronic conditions.

As team leader for the paediatric dietetic specialty, you will oversee day‑to‑day operations, staff supervision, and service development. You will play a key role in clinical governance, developing policies, guidelines, and educational resources, and ensuring continuous service improvement. Your role will include providing expert advice and education to patients, families, and the wider multidisciplinary team, as well as supporting staff and student training within the wider dietetic service.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital‑based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester.

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient‑centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

• Being open and honest
• Ensuring people feel cared for
• Showing respect to everyone

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation – this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

Job Summary The post holder will work as an expert autonomous paediatric dietitian, managing a specialist and often complex caseload across inpatient wards, outpatient clinics and MDT settings. They will assess, plan, implement and monitor evidence‑based nutrition care plans, ensuring safe, effective and person‑centred practice. Responsibilities include liaising with specialist centres, leading on home enteral feeding discharges, and communicating complex dietary advice sensitively to children, families and the wider MDT.

The post holder will supervise, support and develop junior staff and students, contribute to policy and guideline development, and promote high standards of clinical governance, safety and service quality. They will actively participate…