Band 7 Head and Neck Dietitian
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 13/09/2026
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 a 0.6 wte Head and Neck Dietitian to join a dynamic team at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The role involves providing expert nutritional rehabilitation and long-term support for patients with late effects of head and neck cancer treatment. You will manage a specialist caseload, develop care plans, and work closely with a multidisciplinary team to improve patient outcomes and quality of life. The position is for 12 months due to additional funding.
Key responsibilities
- Provide expert nutritional rehabilitation & long-term support for people living with the late effects of head & neck cancer treatment.
- Provide specialist assessment/management of patients experiencing nutritional late effects following head & neck cancer treatment.
- Lead management of enteral feeding patients, including tube-feeding reviews, home enteral feeding discharges & long-term PEG/RIG support.
- Work as a core member of the multidisciplinary late effects team, collaborating closely with SLT, oncology, surgery, dentistry, nursing, psychology & rehabilitation services.
- Coordinate & prioritise a specialist caseload including triaging referrals and ensuring timely follow-up of complex patients.
- Lead audit, service evaluation & quality improvement projects to demonstrate outcomes and drive service development.
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
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- -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 k
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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Job summary
Are you looking for a new challenge and want to work in a dynamic and forward-thinking team? Due to additional funding for 12 months we have an exciting opportunity to recruit a 0.6 wte Head and Neck Dietitian. This is a new pathway and you will help support patients experiencing late effects of head and neck cancer treatment and will work closely with the multi disciplinary team.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and flexible Dietitian who enjoys team working and has experience in nutrition support and enteral feeding to lead the Head and Neck team at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. This is the regional head and neck centre in the West Midlands and covers both inpatients and outpatients focusing supporting head and neck cancer surgery, rehabilitation following radiotherapy, and late effects.
You should work well in a MDT, strive for high levels of excellence and will be involved in audits and research to improve care for patients with late effects of head and neck cancer. You will work as an integral member of the hospital's well respected dietetic team. You will deliver high quality nutritional care alongside our proactive and enthusiastic dietetic team made up of over 60 dietitians and assistants.
If this post is for you, come and develop your clinical, multi-professional and audit skills, knowledge and practice.
The dietetic department at QEHB has a robust CPD p
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