Job overview

Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital (RMCH) is a large tertiary Children’s Hospital that provides secondary, regional and supra-regional services to include most dietetic clinical paediatric specialties across 3 Manchester hospital sites .

We have an exciting opportunity for a  Band 5 or Band 6  paediatric dietitian  part-time or fulltime  to join our dynamic  paediatric dietetic team. (Grade is according to experience).

Dietitians are well respected and valued members of RMCH multi-disciplinary teams, and provide both IP and OP services to a comprehensive range of paediatric Tertiary , secondary and neonatal specialties

Our RMCH dietetic service is led by a professional paediatric dietetic lead and comprises;

5 x B8a clinical specialist / paediatric dietetic team leads

1 x ACP in ketogenic diet therapies

20 x B7 paediatric dietitians

7x B6 rotational paediatric dietitians

2 x static B7 paediatric dietitians ( North Manchester)

1 static B7 and B6 paediatric dietitians (Wythenshawe)

1 x dietetic apprentice

4 x paediatric dietetic assistant

Special Feeds Unit supervisors and assistants

Main duties of the job

We welcome applicants ideally from dietitians with good acute clinical dietetic  and experience in the UK  acute NHS for a band 6 post . We will  also consider applications from newly qualified dietitians as a band 5 . 

Paediatric dietetic experience  not essential as we can fully support your development  .You  must  be able to demonstrate  interest, experience  and an enthusiasm  working with children and their families .

The  clinical workload is varied  and you will work alongside more experienced dietitians and multi-disciplinary teams in both inpatient and outpatient settings. The post will provide opportunity to gain experience over time across a broad spectrum of clinical specialties and different multi-disciplinary teams

We are looking for HCPC registered dietitians ideally with  recent UK NHS acute clinical experience

We will offer a comprehensive inhouse training package of tutorials individually tailored to your  developmental needs. 

We will  assign a mentor to you to  provide clinical supervision and ensure we are appropriately supporting your development

There is potentially the opportunity to attend the BDA paediatric master’s modules (currently online)

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.