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Job summary

Main area
Dietetics
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (Secondment will also be considered.)
Hours
Part time - 18.75 hours per week
Job ref
196-LIS9780
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Nutrition and Dietetics
Town
London
Salary
£56,276 - £63,176 p.a inc of HCA
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
16/08/2025 23:59
Interview date
27/08/2025

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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust logo

Senior Specialist Paediatric Dietitian - Nutrition Team

Band 7

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. 

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.



Job overview

Are you a passionate and experienced paediatric dietitian with expertise in parenteral nutrition (PN)? Would you like to be part of an exciting new multidisciplinary initiative to improve nutrition support for children across Evelina London?

We are seeking a dynamic 0.5 WTE Band 7 Specialist Paediatric Dietitian to join our newly proposed Paediatric Nutrition Support Team. This fixed-term post is part of a pilot programme.

You will work alongside a dedicated  pharmacist,  with support from paediatric gastroenterologist, and specialist nurse to deliver safe, effective, and standardised PN care across the organisation

This is a fantastic opportunity to shape a new service and develop robust clinical pathways that will have a lasting impact on patient care. You’ll be part of a supportive, forward-thinking team committed to innovation, safety, and excellence.

Main duties of the job

  • Lead the dietetic component of the Paediatric Nutrition Support Team, working alongside a pharmacist, paediatric gastroenterologist, and specialist nurse and other dietetic teams.
  • Provide expert nutritional assessment and management for children requiring PN across the organisation.(excluding NICU/PICU)
  • Support the transition to standardised PN formulations, contributing to improved safety, reduced prescribing errors, and cost savings.
  • Deliver high-quality, evidence-based dietetic care, including detailed nutritional analysis, tailored feeding plans, and monitoring of growth and nutritional outcomes.
  • Liaise with dietetic teams to ensure continuity of care and effective discharge planning.
  • Contribute to the development of PN pathways and protocols across the Trust.
  • Ensure compliance with Trust policies, clinical governance, and national standards.
  • Provide clinical supervision to junior staff and students, and contribute to service development and quality improvement initiatives.

Working for our organisation

The post holders will join a wider paediatric dietetic team of 40 WTE dietitians and dietetic assistants who cover a wide range of specialties including inherited metabolic disease, diabetes, renal, gastroenterology, complex feeding clinic, allergy and respiratory.
The service is overseen by the Evelina London Lead Dietitian and the Paediatric team form part of the wider Guy's and St Thomas' dietetic department of over 100 dietitians, with a focus on innovation, quality, education, development and well-being.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to job specification for details.

For further details / informal visits contact:  Natasha Mir,  Evelina London Lead Dietitian

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Extensive specialist paediatric experience
  • Experience in an acute paediatric inpatient setting
  • Working as part of a team
  • Experience of training student dietitians
  • Previous experience of conducting audits and / or research
  • Supervision of junior colleagues
  • Extensive experience of parenteral nutrition (PN)
Desirable criteria
  • Line management incl. PDR responsibility
  • Change management experience
  • Project management experience

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Good communication
  • Organisational Skills
  • Time Management
  • Maintain confidentiality
  • Prioritise own work load
  • Able to work under own initiative
  • Ability to to liaise with professionals at all levels
  • Able to achieve deadlines
  • Computer literacy
Desirable criteria
  • Presentation skills - presentations to large groups

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • BSc (Hons) Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics or equivalent,
  • HPC registration
Desirable criteria
  • Member of the BDA
  • Member of the BDA paediatric Group
  • BDA Paediatric Module 3

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Natasha Mir
Job title
Evelina London Lead Dietitian
Email address
[email protected]
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