Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated dietitian to join our dynamic team!

As part of the largest NHS acute trust in England and one of London's busiest tertiary children's hospitals, we provide a wide range of specialist paediatric services including Surgery, Cystic Fibrosis, Gastroenterology, Allergy, Neonatology, Neurology, Diabetes, and PCCU. Our patient population is culturally diverse, covering both some of the most affluent and socially deprived areas in the country.

This senior paediatric role focuses on our well-established Home Enteral Tube Feeding (HEF) service. You will work as an integral member of the HEF team, which includes 2.1 WTE Band 7 Dietitians, and participate in joint SLT clinics as well as school clinics at local specialist schools.

We are looking for someone with strong clinical paediatric dietetic experience, ideally including acute paediatrics. Excellent communication skills and a passion for working within a dynamic multidisciplinary team are essential. You will join a friendly and supportive department of 31 paediatric dietitians across three acute sites.

We offer a well-established programme of quality improvement and research, and fully support CPD opportunities, making this a fantastic role to further develop your career.

Main duties of the job

• To work within the multidisciplinary team and Integrated Service for Children with Disabilities, to provide highly specialized dietetic advice to children and young people receiving Home Enteral Feeding (HEF) in Tower Hamlets
• To provide outpatient clinics in these areas. Also to undertake home visits and school clinics/visits.
• The post holder would undertake research and audit on a regular basis to ensure that practice is evidence based.

About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Details
Date posted: 19 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £58,133 to £65,261 a year per annum inc
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 259-8376965RLH

Person Specification
Qualifications

• Essential: BSc Nutrition & Dietetics or relevant postgraduate qualification; Paediatric Dietetics Training; HCPC registered; In-depth knowledge in nutrition support and paediatrics.
• Desirable: Member of relevant special clinical interest group; Supervision training; Qualification in Paediatrics.

Experience

• Essential: Significant experience working in Nutrition and Dietetics and experience within paediatrics; Understanding of team dynamics and experience of working within a team; Experience of working with HEF patients; Experience of delivering undergraduate student supervision and clinical education to graduate standard in area of speciality; Experience of supervision of junior members of clinical staff.

Skills

• Essential: Ability to work effectively single handedly with individuals and groups; Ability to demonstrate behaviour change facilitation/motivational interviewing; Ability to problem solve, analyse complex clinical problems and create practical solutions; Leadership skills; Accurate anthropometric measurements and skills to assess patients nutritional status and devise clinical plan; Ability to provide highly specialised advice concerning the care of patients; Proven audit skills; Effective presentation skills; Regularly undertakes R&D activity eg critical appraisal; Ability to take own initiative and be the lead for clinical speciality.
• Desirable: Have participated in research.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Applicants must meet criminal record certificate requirements for countries of prior residence.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

For questions about the job, contact: Sophie Aubrey, Head of Paediatric Dietetics, sophie.aubrey@nhs.net

Employer: Barts Health NHS Trust, Royal London Hospital, London, E1 1FR

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