Band 6 Senior Dietitian, Liver Medicine
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 14/09/2026
- Closes
- 28/09/2026
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 12-month fixed-term opportunity for an enthusiastic dietitian to join the growing Liver Medicine Service at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. The role involves providing specialist nutritional assessment and intervention for patients with chronic liver disease, managing malnutrition and sarcopenia, and improving clinical outcomes. You will work closely with a multidisciplinary team, contributing to service development, audit, and research. This is an excellent chance to gain specialist experience in hepatology.
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.
- 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, PowerPoint, dietary analysis, data collection and patient information programmes.
- Evidence of clinical audit and/or research.
- Evidence of multi-disciplinary teamwork.
- Knowledge of standards of record keeping and medico-legal issues.
- Experience of training Dietetic students.
- Evidence of teaching groups of 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 and as part of a team.
- Manage and organise own workload.
- 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.
- 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, PowerPoint, dietary analysis, data collection and patient information programmes.
- Evidence of clinical audit and/or research.
- Evidence of multi-disciplinary teamwork.
- Knowledge
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Band 6 Senior Dietitian, Liver Medicine
The closing date is 28 September 2026
Job summary
We are offering an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic dietitian to join our growing Liver Medicine Service on a 12-month fixed-term basis. This post is based at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.
You will be working alongside our specialist dietetic team, playing a pivotal role in delivering and developing the dietetic service for patients with chronic liver disease. You will work across the inpatient and outpatient setting, supporting patients with a wide range of liver condition. There may also be opportunity to support patients undergoing assessment for or recovering from liver transplantation.
The role involves providing specialist nutritional assessment and intervention to manage malnutrition and sarcopenia, improve clinical outcomes and quality of life. You will work closely with hepatologists, specialist nurses and other allied health professionals, to deliver patient-centred care.
This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated and proactive dietitian to gain specialist experience in hepatology. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the ongoing development, evaluation and sustainability of the service through quality improvement initiatives, audit and research activities.
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