Barts Health NHS Trust
Specialist Critical Care Dietitian
The closing date is 15 November 2026

Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 1 year fixed term Band 7 Specialist Critical Care Dietitian to join our friendly and enthusiastic Adult Dietetics Department at the Royal London Hospital.

This position presents an excellent prospect for a highly organised and ambitious Dietitian to work in a specialist tertiary critical care unit, covering a variety of specialisms including patients with traumatic and neurological injuries along with general medical and surgical patients. As a critical care specialist you will be able to work autonomously to provide complex nutrition support to this varied cohort of patients while having the opportunity to support and develop more junior dietitians to specialise in this area too.

The successful candidate should be very motivated and hard-working with previous experience of managing a very busy caseload along with experience of leadership and successful line management. You will also have the opportunity to deputise for the Lead Critical Care Dietitian as needed.

There is scope to expand and develop the dietetic team and the successful candidate is expected to engage and lead in service development. Excellent communication skills and multidisciplinary working is required. The critical care unit at the Royal London Hospital is at the forefront of research and its multidisciplinary team is paving the way to consider different strategies for ensuring our patients receive optimal nutritional support.

Main duties of the job

• To provide expert dietetic knowledge and experience to provide an effective dietetic service to complex critical care patients requiring Nutritional Support. This includes enteral and parenteral support.
• To provide specialist assessment, treatment and/or advice to in-patients
• To work closely with all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• To actively contribute to the development of the acute dietetic service and the dietetic service on critical care.
• To support and supervise dietetic staff
• To support and provide training as required to the MDT

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: 09 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £58,133 to £65,261 a year per annum inc
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 12 months
Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 259-8420812RLH
Job locations: Royal London Hospital, London, E1 1FR, United Kingdom

Person Specification
Qualifications

• Essential: BSc Nutrition & Dietetics or relevant postgraduate qualification.
• Qualification in area of specialisation or evidence of significant experience in speciality area.
• HCPC registered.
• Desirable: Post Graduate training in critical care / advanced nutritional support.
• Supplementary prescribing qualification

Experience

• Essential: Extensive experience in the area of complex nutrition support (to include significant experience within the area of Critical Care).
• Experience in the provision of Parenteral Nutrition
• Experience in taking part in project work that supports improvement in service or supports a change in practice
• Understanding of team dynamics and experience of working within a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience in developing a service and establishing/maintaining a dietetic presence within an MDT.
• Desirable: Experience in working with other specialist dietitians from other trusts to undertake service review/improvement.
• Experience in utilising indirect calorimetry to calculate nutritional requirements.

Skills

• Essential: Experience of delivering undergraduate student supervision and clinical education to postgraduate standard in area of speciality.
• Experience of supervision and line management of staff including completing appraisals, 1:1 meetings and objective setting and able to work within Trust policy and support line reports to do the same.
• Ability to work effectively single handedly with individuals and groups, and deliver complex nutritional information.
• Ability to use behavioural change/ motivational interviewing techniques to facilitate change.
• Ability to problem solve, analyse complex clinical problems and create practical solutions to provide best clinical care.
• Able to demonstrate and effectively utilise leadership skills.
• Able to undertake accurate anthropometric measurements eg. weights, heights, skinfold thickness to support the assessment of patients nutritional status.
• Able to interpret a variety of complex clinical information to make dietetic diagnosis in area of speciality.
• Ability to implement dietetic care plan and provide highly specialised advice concerning the care of patients in area of speciality.
• Regularly undertakes R&D activity e.g. Critical Appraisal, Audit and is confident in the audit process.
• Ability to take own initiative and to be the lead for clinical speciality.
• Able to work with young adults and the understanding of their needs and priorities.
• Desirable: Evidence of planning multiple student placements across the year for a dietetic department with relevant stakeholder involvement.

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 (formerly known as CRB) 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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Barts Health NHS Trust
Address: Royal London Hospital, London, E1 1FR, United Kingdom
Employer's website: Apply via the company portal

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Clinical Lead Dietitian, Niamh Pryke, niamh.pryke@nhs.net

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