Clinical Lead Dietitian
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 24/08/2026
- Closes
- 06/09/2026
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 a fixed-term opportunity for an experienced Dietitian to join the Healthy Living Service as a Band 7 Clinical Lead Dietitian. The role involves providing professional leadership, expert clinical support, supervision, and operational oversight to a team of Dietitians working across mental health and older people's services. The successful candidate will support service delivery, workforce development, and clinical governance while managing a specialist clinical caseload. It's an ideal role for someone looking to develop their clinical leadership skills within a diverse and rewarding specialist area.
Essential criteria
- Registered Dietitian with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
Desirable criteria
- Leadership qualification or equivalent experience.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and support operational service delivery.
- Significant post-registration experience working within specialist dietetic services including experience of managing complex clinical caseloads.
- Experience providing clinical supervision and leadership.
- Experience working within multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience within mental health services and/or older people's services.
- Quality improvement or service development experience.
- Experience supporting workforce development and recruitment.
- Values
- Tell us about a time when you spotted something small going wrong and did something to stop it becoming a bigger issue.
- Tell us about a time when you realised a colleague or someone you know needed a bit of support and you offered to help.
- Tell us about a time when you showed someone kindness or understanding.
- Registered Dietitian with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
- Leadership qualification or equivalent experience.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and support operational service delivery.
- Significant post-registration experience working within specialist dietetic services including experience of managing complex clinical caseloads.
- Experience providing clinical supervision and leadership.
- Experience working within multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience within mental health services and/or older people's services.
- Quality improvement or service development experience.
- Experience supporting workforce development and recruitment.
- Values
- Tell us about a time when you spotted something small going wrong and did something to stop it becoming a bigger issue.
- Tell us about a time when you realised a colleague or someone you know needed a bit of support and you offered to help.
- Tell us about a time when you showed someone kindness or understanding.
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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Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Lead Dietitian
The closing date is 06 September 2026
Job summary
Due to a period of parental leave, we are able to offer this fixed term opportunity to a dietitian with leadership and management skills. You will be based in our Healthy Living Service, which covers both community and inpatients.
We are seeking an enthusiastic, experienced and highly motivated Dietitian to join our Dietetics Service as a Band 7 Clinical Lead Dietitian supporting Mental Health and Older People's Services across Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Band 6 or existing Band 7 Dietitian looking to further develop their clinical leadership skills within a diverse and rewarding specialist area. You will provide professional leadership, expert clinical support, supervision and operational oversight to a team of Dietitians working across inpatient and community mental health services.
The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in supporting service delivery, workforce development and clinical governance whilst maintaining a specialist clinical caseload.
Main duties of the job
As Clinical Lead Dietitian, you will act as the first point of contact for complex clinical issues and provide expert support to Dietitians working across inpatient and community mental
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