Senior Specialist Paediatric Dietitian - Complex Feeding | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 13 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £54,320 - £60,981 p.a. inclusive of HCA (pro rata) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 13 July 2025 |
| Location: | London, SE1 7EH |
| Company: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7264160/196-LIS9624 |
Summary
Are you an experienced and motivated Paediatric Dietitian with a passion for supporting children and families with complex feeding needs? We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Paediatric Dietitian (0.7 WTE) to join our specialist multidisciplinary team, leading on dietetic input for our Complex Feeding Clinics.
This is a unique opportunity to provide expert assessment, nutritional analysis, and intervention for children with behavioural and medical feeding challenges. You will work closely with Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Community Paediatric Dietitians, and the wider MDT to deliver holistic care that makes a real difference to patients’ nutritional wellbeing and developmental progress.
Your role will be integral to our Paediatric Complex Feeding Clinic and Multidisciplinary Behavioural and Medical Feeding Clinic, with a strong focus on case coordination, clinical leadership, and active liaison with community services.
We are looking for a compassionate, autonomous practitioner with strong clinical reasoning and excellent communication skills, able to manage a highly specialist caseload and supervise junior colleagues across the service.
• Lead the dietetic intervention of the Paediatric Complex Feeding Clinic, offering high-level nutritional assessments and feeding interventions for children with complex needs.
• Provide expert input to the MDT Behavioural and Medical Complex Feeding Clinics, contributing to holistic treatment planning.
• Deliver detailed nutritional analysis (including food diary evaluations and nutrient content reviews), and initiate tailored feeding plans, including ONS and multivitamin supplementation trials where clinically indicated.
• Monitor and evaluate the impact of interventions, including growth and changes in nutritional status, using anthropometric data and feeding outcome measures.
• Liaise effectively with Community Paediatric Dietetic Services to support care planning, supervision, and seamless service delivery across pathways.
• Participate in MDT case discussions and ensure timely communication of dietetic findings and plans to local teams, GPs, and paediatricians.
• Provide clinical supervision and support to junior staff and students within the dietetic service.
• Support service development initiatives and contribute to quality improvement within the complex feeding pathway.
The post holders will join a wider paediatric dietetic team of 39 WTE dietitians and dietetic assistants who cover a wide range of specialties including inherited metabolic disease, diabetes, renal, gastroenterology, complex feeding clinic, allergy and respiratory.
The service is overseen by the Evelina London Lead Dietitian and the Paediatric team form part of the wider Guy's and St Thomas' dietetic department of over 100 dietitians, with a focus on innovation, quality, education, development and well-being.
Please see the attached detailed job description, which outlines the main responsibilities of this post.
This advert closes on Sunday 29 Jun 2025