Job summary
- Main area
- Dietetics
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 190-1212-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Dietetic Dept, 3rd Floor Nurses Home
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 pa/pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/03/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 02/04/2026
Employer heading
Specialist Dietitian for Spinal Injuries
NHS AfC: Band 7
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated dietitian to join our dietetic team at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. We are pleased to be able to offer a permanent band 7 specialist dietitian post in Critical care. This includes General and Neuro Critical care and is based at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital (RHH). This post will be integral to the multidisciplinary team, and working collaboratively with the Specialist Dietitian for Critical Care at the Northern General Site (NGH).
The postholder will have team lead responsibility and as such will be expected to lead, supervise and support Band 5 and 6 dietitians within the acute team at RHH.
We are looking for someone with extensive clinical experience across a wide range of specialties, including Critical Care. Applicants should have excellent communication and organisation skills as well as proven leadership qualities.
The STH dietetic department consists of around 65 Dietitians, plus dietetic assistants and admin staff across 3 hospital sites and Sheffield community. We are a friendly, supportive and innovative department with a commitment to patient-centred care and best practice.
Main duties of the job
This post will be based within the dietetic department at RHH. You will lead on the dietetic management of Critical Care in collaboration with the Specialist Dietitian at NGH. You will also be expected to contribute to evidence based practice by leading/participating in appropriate research and audit.
You will also be involved in the training and supervision of dietetic students. We are a friendly team that pride ourselves on our compassionate leadership approach.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc Nutrition and Dietetics or relevant degree with Post Grad Diploma in Dietetics
- Current HCPC registration
- Attainment of validated post registration qualification at masters level in nutritional support i.e. PEN clinical update
- Proven experience and knowledge of nutritional support
- BDA accredited behavioural change counselling, motivational and cognitive behavioural skills courses (or equivalent)
- University accredited clinical supervisory skills for training students
Desirable criteria
- MSc or higher degree
- Recognised teaching course.
- Evidence based practice course
- Research and/or audit courses
- Experience leading a team of Dietitians
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive post registration dietetic experience at senior grade working within a nutrition support speciality.
- Evidence of independent working
- Able to manage a complex caseload with frequently changing priorities, and deal with interruptions
- High level of knowledge of nutritional needs and nutritional assessment of hospital in and outpatients
- High level of knowledge of a range of clinical conditions and current best practice for dietetic management, in particular those relevant to spinal injuries
- Highly competent to assess patients for enteral feeding, and expertise in enteral feeding products, equipment and regimens, and deal with minor complications
Desirable criteria
- Experience of supervising staff
- High level of experience in the nutritional management of spinal injuries
Further Training
Essential criteria
- Able to balance competing priorities and meet personal and service targets within a fluctuating and demanding workload
- Well developed skills to train other health care professionals and student dietitians
- Evidence of continued personal and professional development
- Committed to engage in professional and personal development and department appraisal system and willing to undergo further training as necessary
- Able to develop educational resources to meet the varying needs of clients and carers which are evidence based
- Evidence of participation in service objectives
- Evidence of active participation in clinical governance e.g. audit projects
- Evidence of undertaking and completing audit and/or research projects appropriate to work area
- Able to use literature review search methods and can critically appraise evidence
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of participation in research projects.
- Able to assist in the process of recruitment and retention
- Able to lead, chair meetings and contribute to operational service delivery and the development of departmental structures and systems
Special Skills/Aptitudes (Verbal, numerical, mechanical)
Essential criteria
- Able to document and record accurately in line with national standards
- Able to record activity and other data manually and electronically
- Familiar with and able to operate all necessary IT packages e.g. email, Word, dietary analysis, PowerPoint
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and team working skills
- Able to relate and communicate clearly at all levels with patients, colleagues and members of MDT
- Able to communicate with those with poor memory and other communication difficulties as a result of disease or treatment
- Ability to work as an integral member of MDT and as an autonomous practitioner
- Able to state the case for nutritional intervention as part of the care plan and support junior staff
Desirable criteria
- Able to use database e.g. Excel
Other Factors (e.g. car driver/owner)
Essential criteria
- Flexible approach to working hours.
Desirable criteria
- Car owner/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
- Sarah Thornton
- Job title
- Head of Dietetics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0114 2714162
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