Team Lead Dietitian - (Intestinal Failure & Transplant)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 17/09/2026
- Closes
- 30/09/2026
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Role summary
This is a Team Lead Dietitian position focusing on Intestinal Failure and Transplant patients. The role involves providing specialist dietetic services, leading a team of dietitians, and contributing to service development. It offers opportunities for professional growth, flexible working, and clinical supervision within a leading teaching hospital. The post is for 12 months to backfill a staff member on a predoctoral award.
Essential criteria
- Recognised Nutrition & Dietetic Degree or equivalent
- Registered with Health Professions Council as a Dietitian
- Evidence of successful completion of significant specialist post graduate training equivalent to Masters level in this clinical area.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of completion of informal/formal leadership training
- Evidence of training as clinical supervisor
- [contact details removed] level of specialist dietetic knowledge/skills in this clinical area
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of clinical nutrition
- Evidence of research / audit / project work
- Demonstrates excellent and up to date knowledge of national policies and guidelines relevant to whole service as well as to specific clinical area
- Evidence of effective line management of staff
- Is able to demonstrate evidence of clinical service development
- Able to listen well and counsel colleagues, staff, patients and carers
- Able to communicate effectively particularly where barriers to understanding exist
- Other
- Able to easily and efficiently travel to clinical sites and training venues across the county to provide a dietetics service
- Recognised Nutrition & Dietetic Degree or equivalent
- Registered with Health Professions Council as a Dietitian
- Evidence of successful completion of significant specialist post graduate training equivalent to Masters level in this clinical area.
- Evidence of completion of informal/formal leadership training
- Evidence of training as clinical supervisor
- [contact details removed] level of specialist dietetic knowledge/skills in this clinical area
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of clinical nutrition
- Evidence of research / audit / project work
- Demonstrates excellent and up to date knowledge of national policies and guidelines relevant to whole service as well as to specific clinical area
- Evidence of effective line management of staff
- Is able to demonstrate evidence of clinical service development
- Able to listen well and counsel colleagues, staff, patients and carers
- Able to communicate effectively particularly where barriers to understanding exist
- Other
- Able to easily and efficiently travel to clinical sites and training venues across the county to provide a dietetics service
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Team Lead Dietitian - (Intestinal Failure & Transplant)
The closing date is 30 September 2026
Job summary
This position has arisen to backfill a staff member who has been successful in a predoctoral NIHR award for 12months. If you are a Band 7 dietitian looking to gain more leadership experience, or an experienced Band 6 looking to advance your career, we would love to hear from you.
This post offers great MDT working and the ability to advance knowledge and skills in intestinal failure and transplantation. You will also lead the team of 3 dietitians with support from fellow Team Lead Dietitians and MDT members.
This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the best teaching hospitals in the UK and offers the successful candidates the opportunity to gain valuabletraining so that they cannot only advance their careers butjoina team that offers the very best in nutritional care.
We encourage every Band 7 to protect 30% of their time within the role to development, both individually and as a service. This can include quality improvement projects, clinical audit and CPD, as well as service development alongside the MDT.
As a valued member of ourteam,you will receive:
- Flexible working , including opportunities for home working
- Clinical supervision and support from experienced and specialist dietitians
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