Clinical Team Lead Dietitian
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 22/09/2026
- Closes
- 09/10/2026
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 Band 7 Clinical Team Lead Dietitian to lead a friendly, high-performing Community Dietetic Service across Doncaster. The role combines expert clinical practice with operational leadership, service development, and workforce support. The successful candidate will provide professional and operational leadership, ensuring safe, effective, and patient-centred care while driving continuous improvement and innovation. They will need strong clinical credibility, operational awareness, and a passion for developing services and people.
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent in Dietetics
- Will be required to have a Professional Registration with the HCPC
- Demonstrable experience (2 years at Band 6 level within Nutrition support enteral and oral feeding experience)
- Experience of working across primary and secondary care
- Experience in leading a team
- Proven evidence of continued professional development certificates
- Knowledge and experience of community working
- Performance and Development Review Training
- Management Training
- Teaching qualification
- Completion of PENG clinical update or equivalent
- Excellent team building and leadership skills
- Provent communication and inter-personal skills
- Degree or equivalent in Dietetics
- Will be required to have a Professional Registration with the HCPC
- Demonstrable experience (2 years at Band 6 level within Nutrition support enteral and oral feeding experience)
- Experience of working across primary and secondary care
- Experience in leading a team
- Proven evidence of continued professional development certificates
- Knowledge and experience of community working
- Performance and Development Review Training
- Management Training
- Teaching qualification
- Completion of PENG clinical update or equivalent
- Excellent team building and leadership skills
- Provent communication and inter-personal skills
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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Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHSFT
Clinical Team Lead Dietitian
The closing date is 09 October 2026
Job summary
We are seeking an exceptionalBand 7 Clinical Team Lead Dietitian to lead our friendly, high-performing Community Dietetic Service. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinician and leader to shape the future of community dietetics across Doncaster, combining expert clinical practice with operational leadership, service development and workforce support.
We're looking for a forward-thinking, values-driven Dietitian with a broad range of clinical experience and the ability to inspire, motivate and develop others. As Clinical Team Lead, you will provide professional and operational leadership to a skilled and dedicated team, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and patient-centred care whilst driving continuous improvement and innovation across the service.
The successful candidate will bring excellent clinical credibility, strong operational awareness and a passion for developing services and people. You will be confident managing competing priorities, supporting performance and quality improvement, leading change and working collaboratively with colleagues and partners across organisational boundaries to improve outcomes for the communities we serve.
**If you are an inspiring leader with a commitment to outstanding care, oper
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