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Job summary

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Dietitian
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 26.25 hours per week
Job ref
196-LIS9624
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Evelina London Childrens Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£54,320 - £60,981 p.a. inclusive of HCA (pro rata)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
29/06/2025 23:59

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Senior Specialist Paediatric Dietitian - Complex Feeding

NHS AfC: 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 an experienced and motivated Paediatric Dietitian with a passion for supporting children and families with complex feeding needs? We have an exciting opportunity for a  Band 7 Paediatric Dietitian (0.7 WTE) to join our specialist multidisciplinary team, leading on dietetic input for our Complex Feeding Clinics.

This is a unique opportunity to provide expert assessment, nutritional analysis, and intervention for children with behavioural and medical feeding challenges. You will work closely with Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Community Paediatric Dietitians, and the wider MDT to deliver holistic care that makes a real difference to patients’ nutritional wellbeing and developmental progress.

Your role will be integral to our Paediatric Complex Feeding Clinic and Multidisciplinary Behavioural and Medical Feeding Clinic, with a strong focus on case coordination, clinical leadership, and active liaison with community services.

We are looking for a compassionate, autonomous practitioner with strong clinical reasoning and excellent communication skills, able to manage a highly specialist caseload and supervise junior colleagues across the service.

Main duties of the job

  • Lead the dietetic intervention of the Paediatric Complex Feeding Clinic, offering high-level nutritional assessments and feeding interventions for children with complex needs.

  • Provide expert input to the MDT Behavioural and Medical Complex Feeding Clinics, contributing to holistic treatment planning.

  • Deliver detailed nutritional analysis (including food diary evaluations and nutrient content reviews), and initiate tailored feeding plans, including ONS and multivitamin supplementation trials where clinically indicated.

  • Monitor and evaluate the impact of interventions, including growth  and changes in nutritional status, using anthropometric data  and feeding outcome measures.

  • Liaise effectively with Community Paediatric Dietetic Services to support  care planning, supervision, and seamless service delivery across pathways.

  • Participate in MDT case discussions and ensure timely communication of dietetic findings and plans to local teams, GPs, and paediatricians.

  • Provide clinical supervision and support to junior staff and students within the dietetic service.

  • Support service development initiatives and contribute to quality improvement within the complex feeding pathway.

 

Working for our organisation

The post holders will join a wider paediatric dietetic team of 39 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 see the attached detailed job description, which outlines the main responsibilities of this post.    

Person specification

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Organisational Skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Prioritisation of own work load
  • Able to work under own initiative
  • Time management
  • Strong communication skills
  • Computer Literacy
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of influencing change

Previous experience

Essential criteria
  • Specialist paediatric experience
  • Specific complex feeding experience
  • Working as part of multidisciplinary team
  • Conducting audit and research
  • Student supervision
Desirable criteria
  • Supervision of junior staff
  • Use of electronic records/ digital health

Knowledge/Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • HCPC Registered Dietitian
  • Degree or Postgraduate Diploma in Dietetics or equivalent qualification.
Desirable criteria
  • Member of the British Dietetic Association (BDA) or other body conferring professional insurance.
  • Membership of BDA Paediatric Group
  • BDA Paediatric Module

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]
Additional information

Carla Fitzachary 

Evelina AHP Lead

[email protected]

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