Clinical Professional Lead for Nutrition and Dietetics
| Posting date: | 26 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £55,690.00 to £62,682.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £55690.00 - £62682.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 December 2025 |
| Location: | Plymouth, PL6 8DH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9216-25-1582 |
Summary
Responsible for the delivery of the Nutrition and Dietetic service for UHP ensuring that the service is consistently patient centred at all levels of delivery, meets the needs of the patient and the wider health community. Ensure that the service is effective, efficient, and delivered in a culture of continuous quality improvement. Ensures safe, legal and clinically effective service delivery by robust adherence to the professional and ethical standards and requirements of the Trust, Health Care Professions Council and the British Dietetic Association. To set and monitor high standards of safe clinical care, underpinned by sound evidence-based knowledge and principles ensuring quality systems are in place to monitor practice. To work as a member of the multidisciplinary nutrition support team, liaising with colleagues at all levels, across agencies and Trusts for the benefit of optimum patient care. To work as an expert clinician providing management of a complex and highly specialist caseload of inpatients and outpatients, providing specialised nutritional assessment including biochemistry and anthropometry and specialist advice. Support operational management colleagues in managing the demand on the service on a daily basis, working closely with the Operational Team, to maximise capacity. Support the Clinical Professional Lead with the review & implementation of Department and service team establishments to meet the planned clinical activity/ nationally benchmarked levels and submit proposals where this is not the case Please review the full job description document uploaded on this advert. a