Clinical Lead Dietitian - Diabetes

Main area Specialist Diabetes Dietitian Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (until 2nd November 2027 (estimated)) Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday) Job ref 214-CSTO-8251644

Site King's Mill Hospital Town Sutton-in-Ashfield Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 05/11/2026 23:59

Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and know that happy colleagues deliver better care.

Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

At Sherwood Forest Hospitals, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. As such, we particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, or Disabled. We believe that a diverse team better represents the communities we serve and brings a wealth of perspectives and experiences to our work.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Diabetes Dietitian to join Sherwood Forest Hospitals on a fixed term basis to cover maternity leave.

This is an opportunity to play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care for adult patients living with diabetes. You will provide dietetic input in MDT pump clinics as well as dietetic-led clinics across both King's Mill Hospital and Newark hospital.

We are willing to consider someone currently working at a lower level who would be interested in the challenge, however you will need previous knowledge and experience of diabetes and the NHS. Knowledge of insulin pumps are essential.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Working for our organisation

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Knowledge Requirements

• Excellent clinical reasoning skills, be able to analyse and interpret complex information to device evidenced based treatment plans
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to influence and facilitate MDT working
• Ability to take a full systematic focused history
• Has the knowledge to support safe clinical decision making in relation to discharge
• To have a sound knowledge of the physiological development in term and preterm infants, taking into account gestational age, and to understand the impact this has on nutritional interventions
• Knowledge on providing nutritional support using expressed breastmilk, human milk fortifier, infant formula, enteral and parenteral nutrition
• Good organisational skills
• IT literate with good presentation and teaching skills
• Knowledge and understanding of the importance of safeguarding
• Knowledge and understanding of the importance of Infection control
• Knowledge of quality improvement and audit processes to deliver service change

Qualifications

• BSc Nutrition and Dietetics
• HCPC registration as a dietitian
• Evidence of continual professional development since qualification
• Evidence of continual professional development in relation to neonatal nutrition
• Member of the BDA paediatric group/neonatal specialist interest group
• Completion of Masters modules in neonatal nutrition (BDA module 5)
• Teaching qualification

Experience

• Significant post registration acute hospital paediatric experience
• Post registration experience of managing neonates
• Experience of working in MDT in clinical practice
• Direct supervision of junior staff
• Supervision of students
• Professional and patient focused, with a strong commitment to providing high quality care
• Understanding of clinical effectiveness and its implications for services including experience of quality issues, audit and evidence-based practice
• Experience of MDT teaching

Contractual Requirements

• Ability to work flexibly within working hours of ward/department

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Home Office guidance has changed. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

We as a Trust support the use of AI and other tools to support your application. However, all personal statements and behavioural examples must be truthful and factually accurate. Your application should reflect your own personal/professional experiences and qualifications to ensure authenticity and credibility.

For the avoidance of doubt, plagiarism includes presenting the ideas or experiences of others or content generated by artificial intelligence as your own. We review all applications carefully to ensure that the information provided in your supporting statement aligns with your qualifications, work history and the duties undertaken within those roles. Your experience will also be explored further during the interview process.

We reserve the right to close a vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. Priority for vacancies at the Trust will be given to existing employees of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust whose roles are currently at risk of redundancy due to organisational change. If a high number of applications are received, a longlisting exercise will be conducted prior to shortlisting.

Only applications received on or before the closing date will be considered for short listing. This is to ensure that the Trust meets its commitment to Equality of Opportunity.

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Please note if you are successful in obtaining this position and the post involves regulated activity you will be required to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service check. The Trust will pay for the check initially and then the money will then be deducted from your first salary once you've commenced employment. The current price of a check is £26.40 for a standard check and £54.40 for an enhanced. If you are asked to complete a DBS check and have a previous identity that you do not wish to be disclosed to your employer and/or on your DBS certificate, you should call or email the dedicated sensitive applications team before submitting your application. The team is experienced in dealing with sensitive cases and will advise you of the process and what you need to do.

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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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