Clinical Nurse Specialist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 20/08/2026
- Closes
- 03/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is a one-year fixed-term Specialist Nurse role in Weight Management within the Diabetes and Metabolism Department at Barts Health NHS Trust. The post holder will support the multidisciplinary team in planning, delivering, and evaluating interventions for adults with complex obesity. Responsibilities include patient assessment, supporting treatment with semaglutide 2.4mg, facilitating behaviour change, and participating in group sessions. The role involves liaising with healthcare professionals and contributing to patient and clinician education.
Essential criteria
- Programmed of study leading to successful registration with the HPC as a registered dietician
- Competence in all core skills required in dietetic practice with evidence of ongoing CPD
- Training in delivery of Total Diet Replacement (TDR)
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate training in motivational interviewing
- Ability to prioritise and manage time effectively. Self-motivated and proactive
- Computer literacy and experience in using work processing, spread sheet, database and PowerPoint programmes together with specialist dietetic computer applications
- Competence in nutritional assessment techniques including anthropometry
- Demonstrates a clear understanding of professional practice
- Ability to work as a team member and autonomously as an independent practioner within departmental and national guidelines
- Demonstrate an awareness of diversity
- Experience in obtaining and utilising body composition measurements
- Member of BDA Obesity specialist group
- Prior experience in obesity care and detailed knowledge of current best practice. Up to date knowledge base of professional and specialist issues
- Training and experience in delivering teaching sessions and presentation
- Experience of being involved in audit
- Evidence of bariatric experience
- Evidence of experience with feeding post GI surgery and the associated complications
- Relevant experience/interest in facilitating weight management group sessions
- Programmed of study leading to successful registration with the HPC as a registered dietician
- Competence in all core skills required in dietetic practice with evidence of ongoing CPD
- Training in delivery of Total Diet Replacement (TDR)
- Postgraduate training in motivational interviewing
- Ability to prioritise and manage time effectively. Self-motivated and proactive
- Computer literacy and experience in using work processing, spread sheet, database and PowerPoint programmes together with specialist dietetic computer applications
- Competence in nutritional assessment techniques including anthropometry
- Demonstrates a clear understanding of professional practice
- Ability to work as a team member and autonomously as an independent practioner within departmental and national guidelines
- Demonstrate an awareness of diversity
- Experience in obtaining and utilising body composition measurements
- Member of BDA Obesity specialist group
- Prior experience in obesity care and detailed knowledge of current best practice. Up to date knowledge base of professional and specialist issues
- Training and experience in delivering teaching sessions and presentation
- Experience of being involved in audit
- Evidence of bariatric experience
- Evidence of experience with feeding post GI surgery and the associated complications
- Relevant experience/interest in facilitating weight management group sessions
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £58,133 – £65,261 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
Applications are invited for a Specialist Nurse in Weight Management within the Diabetes and Metabolism Department, specifically supporting the Obesity Service at Barts Health NHS Trust, working across St Bartholomew's Hospital and Mile End Hospital.
This role is a one year fixed term post which will commence from the 1st of April 2026.
The role of the specialist nurse will be to work within a specialist multidisciplinary weight management service and to provide specialist multidisciplinary care to people with complex obesity.
This role offers an excellent opportunity to deliver multidisciplinary specialist care to people living with obesity, advocating for patients and promoting excellence in practice within the obesity service.
The post will offer the opportunity to contribute to departmental activities including governance, education, research and service development.
Main duties of the job
The Specialist Nurse in weight management will be an integral member of the Weight Management Service. The post holder will support the Adult Weight Management Service multidisciplinary team to plan, deliver and evaluate interventions to support adults who have complex obesity and associated conditions.
The post holder will contribute to the assessment of patients referred to the Tier 3 Weight Management Service. They will support patients approved for weight manag
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