Clinical Lead Dietitian - Adult Acute | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 04 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 January 2026 |
| Location: | Sutton-in-Ashfield, NG17 4JL |
| Company: | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7576949/214-CSTO-7576949 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Dietitian to lead our Adult Acute dietetic team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals. This post offers the chance to develop leadership skills, drive quality improvement, and influence nutrition care across the hospital.
Key responsibilities:
• Lead and manage small team in appraisals, sickness management, delegating and coordinating the acute dietetics team, ensuring delivery of excellent patient centred service
• Oversee service development, audits, quality improvement projects and training of Nutrition Champions
• Manage own caseload of ward patients as well as outpatient
• Build strong working relationships with multidisciplinary teams
• Represent dietetics at nutrition and steering committee and operational catering groups
The successful candidate will provide expert clinical input to adults inpatients and outpatients, develop and support team of dietitians to deliver excellent quality care to our patients.
Apply now to join our team!
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
This advert closes on Thursday 18 Dec 2025
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