Band 7 Specialist Intensive Care and Nutrition Support Dietitian
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 14/09/2026
- Closes
- 20/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves providing advanced and highly specialised dietetic support within critical care and parenteral nutrition services. The post holder will be a key member of the multidisciplinary team, supporting junior dietitians and contributing to service development. Responsibilities include leading dietetic services in critical care, managing a complex adult caseload, and delivering evidence-based nutrition and dietetic care. The role requires working across Heartlands and Good Hope Hospital sites and participating in 7-day working when appropriate.
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
- * Relevant post registration experience relevant to clinical area i.e critical care and parenteral nutrition- at least 12 months
- * In depth for nutritional assessment / nutritional screening tools.
- * Knowledge of all types of nutritional support.
- * Up to date with clinical developments, with evidence of contributions to clinical meetings / journal clubs.
- * Working knowledge of computer programmes e.g. word processing, spreadsheets, power point, dietary analysis, data collection and patient information programmes.
- *Evidence of clinical audit and/or research.
- *Evidence of multi-disciplinary team work.
- *Knowledge of standards of record keeping and medico-legal issues.
- *Experience of training Dietetic students.
- * Evidence of teaching groups pf professionals and patients
- * Evidence of ongoing regular attendance on post-graduate training courses and clinical development.
- * Evidence of attendance at national conferences.
- * Attendance at specialist group meetings of BDA and accredited specialist training course.
- * Attendance at relevant multi-disciplinary courses/conferences
- Additional Criteria
- * Ability to work through interpreters and use visual aids
- * Able to use a range of communication skills
- * Presentation / teaching skills
- * To work independently & as part of a team.
- * Manage and organise own work load.
- * Use equipment relevant to speciality e.g. skin fold callipers, enteral feeding equipment, weighing scales, stadiometers.
- * Plan and deliver a clinical audit programme.
- * Deputise as appropriate
- * Report writing skills
- * Complete home enteral feeding discharges competently.
- * 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 e.g. psychological resistance to change, hostility, extreme distress and grief.
- * 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 multiprofessional team.
- * Ability to use skills of persuasion, motivation, negotiation and problem solving with colleagues, members of the multi professional team and other professionals on a daily basis.
- * 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
- * Work onsite due to the clinical caseload
- * Enthusiasm and commitment to train student dietitians and others
- * Commitment to CPD
- * 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
- * Relevant post registration experience relevant to clinical area i.e critical care and parenteral nutrition- at least 12 months
- * In depth for nutritional assessment / nutritional screening tools.
- * Knowledge of all types of nutritional support.
- * Up to date with clinical developments, with evidence of contributions to clinical meetings / journal clubs.
- * Working knowledge of computer programme
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.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 6d
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University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Band 7 Specialist Intensive Care and Nutrition Support Dietitian
The closing date is 20 September 2026
Job summary
The post holder will
- Have responsibility for providing advanced and highly specialised dietetic support within critical care and parenteral nutrition team services.
- Be a key member of the multidisciplinary team
- Support line management responsibilities for other junior Dietitians/Dietetic Assistants
- Work closely with the other dietetic leads/specialist Dietitians at UHB to continue to develop the dietetic service
- Contribute to the training of student Dietitians on clinical placement
- Based at Heartlands and Good Hope Hospital (Employees will be expected to demonstrate a flexible working approach and move across sites as required to deliver care based on organisational and service need).
- To participate in 7 days working when appropriate service delivery allows and commences
Main duties of the job
- To be responsible for and lead on a day-to-day basis the provision of Dietetic services within the critical Care and nutrition support team at HGS.
- To be an integral member of the Multidisciplinary and Dietetic Team structures within the University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.
- To lead the provision of service to specialist clinical areas using a high level of knowledge, sk
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