Paediatric and Neonatal Dietetic Service lead

Role Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Paediatric and Neonatal Dietetic Service Lead to join our team for 30 hours per week. This role combines advanced clinical practice with leadership, supporting babies, children and families across a busy and well‑established service.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide a high-quality, evidence‑based dietetic service for neonates and children with highly complex feeding and nutritional needs.
• Assess, diagnose and treat babies and children (0–16 years), developing individualised care plans and working closely with families.
• Collaborate with medical, nursing, and AHP colleagues, contributing to care planning, influencing decisions, and acting as a key source of specialist advice.
• Provide clinical supervision, training and day‑to‑day support to junior staff, helping build skills, competencies and a strong team culture.
• Lead and develop service improvement initiatives, contribute to policy and pathway development, and use audit and evaluation to improve patient outcomes.
• Triage referrals, manage workload effectively and ensure high‑risk patients are seen promptly, supporting efficient patient flow and discharge planning.
• Maintain accurate case notes in line with HCPC and BDA professional standards and local trust policies, including assessment results, treatment plans and appropriate reporting.
• Comply with safeguarding policies of the Trust.
• Help shape care pathways across neonatal and paediatric patients, driving service development and improvement.
• Maintain confidentiality and administrative responsibilities in the designated clinical area, including risk assessments, and plan and implement action plans.
• Work with parents/carers and professionals to agree effective management of nutritional issues, ensuring safe and positive feeding development.
• Assess and evaluate the outcomes of interventions, demonstrating clinical effectiveness using evidence-based practice and outcome measures.
• Assist with the identification of training needs within the team and contribute to formal and informal teaching and training, both within the profession and in collaboration with other professionals.
• Maintain up-to-date and accurate case notes in line with HCPC and BDA professional standards and local trust policies, including assessment results, treatment plans and reporting to source of referral and other appropriate colleagues.
• Develop specific care plans and provide appropriate intervention using specialist knowledge to inform sound clinical judgement/decision making for case management.
• Provide specialist advice to others regarding the management and care of children and neonates with feeding and nutritional difficulties using evidence‑based practice and outcome measures.
• Communicate complex condition‑related information from assessment to carers, families and members of the multidisciplinary team/other professions, maintaining sensitivity to emotional needs.
• Demonstrate empathy, reassurance and sensitivity when communicating, teaching and providing instruction to parents/carers and colleagues.
• Manage and prioritise own caseload independently, using locally and nationally identified prioritisation systems and being responsive to unpredictable work patterns.
• Develop and support clinical competencies for staff at all levels, including band 7.
• Ensure all concerns, incidents and allegations are reported in line with safeguarding policies.
• Assist with the identification of training needs within the team, contribute to formal and informal teaching, and support staff development.
• Maintain high quality, evidence-based dietary services and uphold professional duties and responsibilities.
• Provide a high-quality, evidence-based dietetic service for neonates and children with highly complex feeding and nutritional needs, using advanced clinical skills and judgement.
• Assess, diagnose and treat babies and children (0–16 years), developing individualised care plans and working closely with families to support safe and effective feeding.
• Collaborate with medical, nursing and AHP colleagues, contributing to care planning, influencing decisions and acting as a key source of specialist advice.
• Provide day‑to‑day support and supervision to junior staff, helping to build skills, competencies and a strong team culture.
• Drive service development initiatives, contribute to policy and pathway development, and use audit and evaluation to improve patient outcomes.
• Triage referrals, manage workload effectively and ensure high‑risk patients are seen promptly.
• Maintain accurate case notes, complying with HCPC and BDA professional standards.
• Meet the immunisation and vaccination requirements from a UK occupational health provider or GP.

Additional Information

Interviews are provisionally scheduled for 22nd June 2026.

Equality and Diversity

The Trust is committed to building an organisation that promotes fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy for all employees and patients.

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