Specialist Paediatric Diabetes Dietitian
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 15/09/2026
- Closes
- 23/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Specialist Paediatric Diabetes Dietitian who will act as the clinical lead at Northampton General Hospital. You will manage a complex caseload, providing expert dietetic assessment, advice, and treatment for children and young people with diabetes. The role involves autonomous practice within a multidisciplinary team, focusing on patient-centred care, lifestyle changes, and developing care pathways. You will also educate families on glycaemic management and carbohydrate counting.
Essential criteria
- Sound clincial background and expereince of working in diabetes and preferably some paediatric experience and of NHS
- communication skills
- Demonstrates competency in a range of communication skills with individuals and groups and able to motivate children and families to make lifestyle change
- Professioanl skills
- Demonstrates competency in a range of professional skills and ability to work as an autonomous practitioner
- knowledge and experience
- Sound clincial background and expereince of working in diabetes and preferably some paediatric experience and of NHS
- communication skills
- Demonstrates competency in a range of communication skills with individuals and groups and able to motivate children and families to make lifestyle change
- Professioanl skills
- Demonstrates competency in a range of professional skills and ability to work as an autonomous practitioner
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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Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
Specialist Paediatric Diabetes Dietitian
The closing date is 23 September 2026
Job summary
For this role you will have an expert knowledge of dietary management of paediatric diabetes, an up to date knowledge of insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitoring and be able to advise on safe carbohydrate adjustment. You will be the clinical lead dietitian for paediatric diabetes at Northampton General Hospital and work as an autonomous advanced practitioner but understand your role within the paediatric diabetes team and wider teams. You will have specialist dietetic assessment skills and will be able to create dietetic interventions linked into wider MDT care plans. You will be actively involved in developing care pathways. You will have advanced communication skills, the ability to use age appropriate language, be flexible in your approach to create helpful relationships to meet the needs of children and family/carers and ensure the child's voice is heard.
You will provide a responsive service to newly diagnosed children when an inpatient, provide timely follow up at home, liaise with family members and education providers and provide outpatient services. These children can have a range of complex social and psychological issues as well as a range of comorbidities.
Main duties of the job
o Providing dietetic assessm
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