Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatric dietitian
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 391-RFL-7152122
- Employer
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Barnet Hospital
- Town
- Barnet
- Salary
- £42,939 - £50,697 per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Band 6 Paediatric Dietitian
NHS AfC: Band 6
The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.
The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.
In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.
Job overview
Are you an experienced Band 5 dietitian or a Band 6 paediatric dietitian looking to expand your expertise in paediatrics? Are you passionate about making a positive impact on people's lives? We are seeking enthusiastic and innovative Dietitians who value teamwork and are dedicated to ensuring patients receive timely assessment and compassionate care. If you are eager to enhance your clinical and service development skills in the field of Dietetics for children and young people, we want you to join our team.
The Dietitians at Barnet, play a crucial role in supporting patients to optimise their abilities through therapeutic interventions and collaborative efforts. The dietetic team comprises of 4 Band 7 paediatric dietitians working in Neonates, allergy, diabetes and general paediatrics in and outpatient settings. We also work closely with the wider MDT.
The successful candidate will work across general inpatient and outpatient setting including an element of allergy and diabetes. You will also be supported to upskill to cover the neonatal ward when required.
We offer flexible working and some home working opportunities if the caseload allows.
Main duties of the job
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.
Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top
Therapy Services has a high profile within the Trust, being firmly committed to quality improvement, audit, service evaluation and improvement. We undertake yearly presentations of our achievements for the year; undertaking PDSA and QI projects to ensure we are delivering the most effective, safe and high quality service.
For more information please follow link https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
Person specification
Royal Free World Class Values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate ability to meet Trust Values
Education
Essential criteria
- Recognised Dietetics Degree qualification or equivalent
- Health Professions Council – Licence to Practice
- Evidence of portfolio of post graduate continued development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of paediatric allergy
- Experience of working with allergy (or another long term condition) and their families
- Experience of supervising junior staff and dietetic students
- Actively involved in teaching and challenging the multidisciplinary team
- Experience of delivering and evaluating group education to a range of client groups
- Awareness/experience of setting & maintaining clinical standards and clinical audit
- Evidence of presentation of own research/project work
- Evidence of service development & contribution to change within the workplace
- Behavioural change/ motivational interviewing skills
- Evidence of managing continuous professional development whilst managing a busy caseload
- Advanced reasoning skills
- Evaluation and research skills
- Good level of organisational and time management skills despite an unpredictable working pattern
- Problem solving skills
- Competent IT skills including word processing, internet, email and dietary analysis
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to manage stressful situations by remaining calm, objective and professional at all times
- Effective interpersonal skills, including assertiveness & ability to negotiate
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
- Motivated to achieve personal and professional goals to an excellent standard as appropriate to the job role
Desirable criteria
- Ability to recognise unacceptable behaviour and act on this appropriately
- Car Driver
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Debra Silver
- Job title
- Clinical Lead for C & Y People Therapy Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
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