Job summary
Are you a Dietitian with extensive post registration experience managing the dietetic care of patients with kidney disease? We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as Dietetic Clinical and Operational Lead - Renal.

This part time, permanent role (28hrs per week), will provide both dietetic clinical leadership and operational management support for the kidney team dietitians.

The kidney team provide care for patients across Coventry and Warwickshire for both inpatients and outpatients. The Kidney Dietetic Service provides evidence-based dietetic care to optimise nutrition providing nutritional support as required, manage complications including electrolyte and fluid imbalances, and support kidney patients and caregivers. The Dietitians also engage in multidisciplinary meetings, guidance development, and collaborate on audits and research to improve the service. The team is made up of Dietetic Assistant Practitioners, Specialist and Senior Specialist Dietitians.

This is a great opportunity for the next steps in your career, and an opportunity to shape services for our patients.

Closing Date: Please be advised that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.

Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.

Main duties of the job

• To provide clinical leadership on the dietetic management of kidney patients requiring nutrition support, including highly specialised inpatient and outpatient caseloads of patients.
• To lead the daily operational management of the kidney dietitians.
• Provide expert opinion, education, advice and guidance to other health care professionals including dietetic colleagues regarding kidney disease and nutrition support.
• Lead on clinical audit and research within nutrition support.

About us
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.

We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.

Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.

We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence designated organisation - please click the link for further details about this prestigious award. Pathway To Excellence - University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (uhcw.nhs.uk)

By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.

The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.

Details
Date posted: 19 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8a
Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year per annum pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 218-AHP-B8A-8362348
Job locations: University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, Clifford Bridge Road, Coventry, CV2 2DX, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

• To work autonomously to lead the dietetic clinical care of patients with kidney disease who require nutrition support.
• To conduct in-depth nutritional assessments and use expert clinical reasoning skills to determine diagnosis and required intervention, alongside the MDT, as necessary.
• Calculate and establish nutritional requirements and use this to tailor advice and determine choice of nutritional management.
• To use highly specialised knowledge to provide dietetic advice and treatment to patients requiring artificial feeding. This will be achieved through regular monitoring, recalculation and adjustment of enteral feeding regimens and oral dietary advice to ensure nutritional adequacy for the patient.
• To be able to communicate highly complex nutrition and dietetic information in an understandable form to patients, staff and carers, requiring negotiation, persuasion, motivation and counselling skills including situations where there are barriers to understanding.
• To be able to lead on discussions with patients, family members and healthcare professionals about highly emotive and ethical issues regarding nutrition support including appropriateness of artificial nutrition support in palliative care and withdrawal of nutrition at end of life.

For further details of the role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics
• HCPC registration
• Relevant post graduate master's level qualification OR equivalent evidence of clinical dietetic development in specialist field
• Documented evidence of continuous professional Development in specialist area
• Clinical Supervisory Training (students)

Desirable

• BDA member
• Member of relevant BDA specialist interest group
• Teaching Qualification, Advanced communication skills training, Presentation skills training, Leadership training
• Healthcare assessment module and prescribing (only if role has an identified need for prescribing)

Experience
Essential

• Evidence of leading and developing a specialist clinical service.
• Experience of operationally managing staff, workload, capacity and competing service priorities.
• Experience of supervising, mentoring and appraising colleagues.
• Evidence of leading quality improvement, audit and/or service change, including evaluation of outcomes.
• Experience of clinical governance and risk management.
• Evidence of influencing service development and working effectively with senior multidisciplinary stakeholders.
• Advanced specialist clinical knowledge and skills in the nutritional assessment and management of patients with complex renal conditions.
• Evidence of managing highly complex clinical situations requiring autonomous decision-making and advanced clinical judgement.
• Comprehensive knowledge of evidence-based nutritional management across the renal pathway.
• Significant experience of working within multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience of developing, delivering and evaluating education and training for patients, carers and healthcare professionals.
• Experience of using activity, performance and service data to inform service planning, prioritisation and improvement.

Desirable

• Experience of workforce planning and/or contributing to business cases and financial/resource planning
• Experience in research

Knowledge
Essential

• Advanced dietetic knowledge in specialist area acquired through degree qualification and continuous professional development
• Good working knowledge and application of national strategy, policy and guidance relevant to post and how they can be applied in planning of services
• Knowledge of current issues and research relevant to specialist clinical area
• Advanced knowledge of trends and best practice in the clinical specialism
• Aware of the different communication needs within a culturally diverse community and how this may impact on professional practice
• Sound knowledge of principles of clinical governance
• Understanding of the roles of other professionals (relevant to the client group)
• Understanding of the impact of local cultural, linguistic and demographic factors influencing service delivery in the specialist area.
• Ability to work through interpreters to gain and impart information (relevant to the client group)

Desirable

• Post registration training in behavioural change and motivational interviewing

Skills
Essential

• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills and the ability to adapt communication to a range of audiences and situations.
• Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary teams, providing leadership, specialist advice and professional influence where appropriate.
• Demonstrates professional accountability, recognising the limits of own competence and appropriate professional boundaries.
• Excellent organisational, prioritisation and time-management skills, with the ability to manage competing demands.
• Competent in the use of digital systems and information technology relevant to clinical and operational practice.
• Demonstrates commitment to continuing professional development and maintaining up-to-date specialist knowledge and practice.
• Demonstrates initiative and commitment to the development, improvement and promotion of the service.
• Evidence of leading, evaluating and developing a specialist clinical service, including service planning and improvement.
• Ability to identify, assess and manage clinical risk appropriately.

Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
Essential

• Evidence of demonstrating the Trust Values (Compassion, Openness, Pride, Partnership, Improve, Learn and Respect) and the associated Values in Action behaviours in the workplace.
• For posts with managerial responsibility only: Evidence of promoting equality, diversity and inclusion, and ensuring fair and equitable practices throughout your work experience. Evidence of promoting a culture which helps individuals live behaviours aligned to our Trust Values (Compassion, Openness, Pride, Partnership, Improve, Learn and Respect)

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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here: Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

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

Employer details
Employer name: University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
Address: University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, Clifford Bridge Road, Coventry, CV2 2DX, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.jobsatuhcw.co.uk

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Dietetic Service Manager, Acute, Gemma Burgess, gemma.burgess@uhcw.nhs.uk, 02476966161

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975.