Job summary
- Main area
- Dietitian
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 391-RFL-7990047-A
- Employer
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Free Hospital
- Town
- LONDON
- Salary
- £58,133 - £65,261 Including Inner HCAS per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Band 7 PPU Dietitian – Inpatient & Outpatient Services
NHS AfC: Band 7
Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Band 7 Dietitian to join the Therapy Services team within the Private Patients Unit (PPU) at the Royal Free Hospital.
The PPU provides care across a range of specialties including HPB, renal and dialysis, oncology, gastroenterology, hepatology, surgery, respiratory medicine, neurology, elderly care, haematology, diabetes, and critical care. The successful candidate will lead the dietetic service, delivering a highly specialist, evidence-based nutrition service to patients with complex nutritional needs across both inpatient and outpatient settings.
A key element of the role is the opportunity to establish and develop a new outpatient dietetic service, designing referral pathways, clinic models, and service standards while ensuring a seamless patient journey. Working closely with consultants and multidisciplinary teams, the post holder will drive service development, quality improvement, and the delivery of gold-standard, patient-centred care within a private healthcare environment.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will lead and develop the PPU dietetic service, providing specialist nutritional care across a range of complex clinical areas.
Key responsibilities include:
Delivering expert nutritional assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management for patients with complex needs.
Providing high-quality care across inpatient and outpatient settings.
Developing and implementing a new outpatient dietetic service, including referral pathways and clinic models.
Managing a specialist caseload including HPB, renal and dialysis, oncology, gastrointestinal, diabetes, and surgical patients.
Working collaboratively with consultants, nursing teams, therapists, and dietetic colleagues.
Running face-to-face and virtual outpatient clinics.
Acting as the clinical lead for dietetics within the PPU and providing specialist advice to healthcare professionals.
Leading quality improvement, audit, and service evaluation initiatives.
Supporting strategic service growth and development.
Contributing to multidisciplinary education and training.
Maintaining accurate clinical records and outcome data.
This is an excellent opportunity to shape and grow a developing outpatient service while maintaining excellence in inpatient care.
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
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Please see the attached Job Description document which will provide a more detailed description of role and main responsibilities.
Person specification
Royal Free World Class Values
Essential criteria
- • Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values Positively Welcoming, Actively respectful, Visibly reassuring , Clearly Communicating
Education & professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc in Dietetics 4 year degree course or equivalent degree
- Registered Dietitian with HCPC
- BDA member
- Additional qualification or BDA accredited courses or equivalent in-house training
- Evidence or portfolio of postgraduate continued development
Desirable criteria
- BDA member of specialist group, critical care group network
- Completion of one or more of the following: PENG clinical update, St Marks Intestinal Failure Study Day, CKD 4-5, Specialist Liver Dietitians Study Day.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Broad range of clinical experience, across a variety of clinical areas including at least 3 of the following nephrology, hepatology, gastroenterology, HPB surgery, diabetes, neurology, oncology.
- Significant experience of managing enteral tube feeding as part of complex dietetic care, including home enteral feeding discharges
- Experience delivering dietetic care in outpatient settings, including assessment, and appropriate follow up
- Experience working independently or as a sole practitioner, with the ability to recognise limitations and seek appropriate professional support.
- Experience prioritising workload and managing competing demands within limited time and resources
- Experience delivering dietetic care to patients with complex needs in an acute hospital setting.
- Experience contributing to service development or improvement initiatives as an individual practitioner or within small teams.
- Understanding of the differences between NHS ‑funded and privately funded care, including patient expectations, access, and service boundaries
- Leadership in an audit or project, and knowledge of clinical standards in the management of cancer & nutrition support
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with patients with CKD in all settings (dialysis, outpatient clinics, inpatient wards).
Others
Essential criteria
- Able to comply with trust manual handling guidelines
Skills and aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Ability to work autonomously and safely as a sole practitioner, exercising professional judgement, initiative, and accountability.
- Ability to manage complex or conflicting patient expectations while maintaining evidence-based practice.
- Ability to balance clinical delivery with service development activity within a limited WTE role, working collaboratively with the MDT.
- Ability to influence and work collaboratively with MDT colleagues and senior clinicians without formal line-management responsibility.
- Ability to use evidence, audit, and outcome data to inform clinical practice and service improvement.
Personal Qualities & attributes
Essential criteria
- Effective interpersonal skills, including assertiveness & ability to negotiate
- Positive, self ‑motivated approach with a commitment to achieving high professional standards appropriate to the role.
- Confident, self ‑directed, and resilient approach to working as a sole practitioner, with the ability to make independent decisions within professional boundaries.
- Flexible and adaptable, able to respond to changing service demands while maintaining agreed priorities.
- Professional, reflective, and committed to delivering high ‑quality, patient ‑centred care.
- Ability to recognise unacceptable behaviour and respond appropriately, escalating concerns in line with Trust policies and professional standards.
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
- Bianca Refualu
- Job title
- Lead for Therapies
- Email address
- [email protected]
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