Band 7 Macmillan Dietitian
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 04/09/2026
- Closes
- 18/09/2026
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 an exciting opportunity for an experienced and innovative Dietitian to join the Therapies team at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. The role involves developing and delivering a Haematology Cancer Prehabilitation Service, providing highly specialist nutritional assessment and intervention for haematology patients. The successful candidate will work as an integral member of a multidisciplinary team to optimise patient outcomes before treatment. This role combines advanced clinical practice with leadership, service development, education, research, and quality improvement activities, offering the chance to shape an innovative cancer prehabilitation service.
Essential criteria
- -Evidence of relevant GCSE, NVQ, GNVQ, AS and A levels
- -Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics or equivalent
- -Registration with HCPC
Desirable criteria
- -MSc or equivalent experience e.g. advanced level of clinical practice / relevant postgraduate, professionally accredited courses
- -Significant post-graduate experience in relevant specialist area
- -Practical skill & in-depth experience in a multi-disciplinary setting in relevant specialist field evidenced by a learning portfolio and leading to advanced theoretical knowledge in area/s of clinical practice
- -Significant to substantial postgraduate experience of working in a specialist capacity in multi-disciplinary teams leading to the acquisition of advanced theoretical knowledge and highly developed skills.
- -Experience of training Dietetic students
- -Evidence of relevant continued professional development in following areas
- - Clinical e.g.
- Accredited specialist training courses
- Attendance at specialist group meetings of BDA
- Advanced Diploma in Dietetic Practice
- Attendance at relevant multi-disciplinary courses/conferences
- -Teaching e.g.
- Presentation skills
- Clinical supervisory skills training for student training
- Communication skill training / counselling skills training
- Cognitive behaviour therapy training (CBT)
- -High level of dietetic knowledge gained through attendance at postgraduate specialist courses
- -In depth knowledge of research and audit
- -In depth knowledge of nutritional assessment / nutritional screening tools
- -Knowledge and experience of all types of nutritional support
- -Maintains excellent knowledge of clinical developments
- -Requires working knowledge of IT / computer programmes
- -Evidence of ongoing regular attendance on post-graduate training courses and clinical development at highly specialist level
- -Evidence of attendance at national conferences
- -Knowledge of the Strategic direction of the Trust
- -Experience of teaching professional and patient groups
- Additional Criteria
- -Excellent interpersonal and team working skills
- -Ability to absorb, interpret and summarise complex verbal information
- -Ability to cope with a variety of personal and professional approaches to patient care
- -Ability to discuss and influence with healthcare professionals across multidisciplinary teams and other agencies
- -Ability to communicate where there are barriers to understanding in addition to any communication impairment
- -Ability to analyse, interpret and explain complex information on diagnosis, management plan and their implications in a clear and precise manner to patients, their relatives and members of the multi-professional team
- -Ability to use skills of motivation, negotiation and problem solving with colleagues, members of the multi professional team and other professionals on a daily basis
- -Ability to absorb, interpret and summarize verbal information in a pressurised clinical environment
- -Skills in planning treatment for patients with complex and changing needs
- -Ability to manage a dietetic team
- -Organisational skills with the ability to organise own workload and work in a systematic way
- -Excellent time management
- -Excellent interpersonal and team working skills
- -Demonstrates interest and enthusiasm for nutrition
- -Motivated to develop the service
- -Flexibility in the approach to a day in the knowledge that pressure of demand and throughput of patients will impact on original aims of the day
- -Willingness to travel all sites as required by the job role
- -Work onsite due to the clinical caseload
- -Active member of relevant professional groups
- -Evidence of relevant GCSE, NVQ, GNVQ, AS and A levels
- -Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics or equivalent
- -Registration with HCPC
- -MSc or equivalent experience e.g. advanced level of clinical practice / relevant postgraduate, professionally accredited courses
- -Significant post-graduate experience in relevant specialist area
- -Practical skill & in-depth experience in a multi-disciplinary setting in relevant specialist field evidenced by a learning portfolio and leading to advanced theoretical knowle
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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University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Band 7 Macmillan Dietitian
The closing date is 18 September 2026
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and innovative Dietitian to join the Therapies team at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, supporting the development and delivery of a Haematology Cancer Prehabilitation Service. The successful candidate will provide highly specialist nutritional assessment and intervention for patients within haematology, working as an integral member of a multidisciplinary team to optimise patient outcomes before treatment. The role combines advanced clinical practice with leadership, service development, education, research and quality improvement activities. There is an opportunity to help shape and influence an innovative cancer prehabilitation service within one of the UK's largest teaching hospitals. You will work alongside expert clinicians across therapies, nursing and medical teams, developing new pathways of care and contributing to service transformation. In addition to a diverse and rewarding clinical caseload, the role offers opportunities to lead projects, undertake audit and research, support workforce development, and influence the future direction of specialist dietetic services.
We are looking for an HCPC-registered Dietitian with significant post-registration experi
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