Highly Specialist Dietitian (Gastroenterology) | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 21 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 February 2026 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L7 8YE |
| Company: | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7705492/287-RMED-537-25 |
Summary
Band 7 Gastro Specialist Dietitian, Royal Liverpool University Hospital (RLUH) at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LUHFT).
Full time, permanent (37.5 hours).
An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, self-motivated Dietitian to join our Gastro team at Liverpool University Hospital Foundation Trust, to cover the new Royal Liverpool Hospital site. As part of this exciting post you will be one of the lead dietitians within Gastro based in our new hospital.
Experience of working with people with complex nutritional needs is essential. The post holder will be expected to develop and enhance the gastro dietetic service providing highly specialised support to a complex in and outpatient caseload. You will join our established dietetic team and support service development and supervision of junior staff within medicine.
An exciting new opportunity has arisen for a B7 Gastro Dietitian to provide a service to the Liverpool region. Based in our new hospital, with state of the art facilities including video capsule and trans nasal endoscopy, this is a unique opportunity to developed your dietetic skills within gastro.
The primary role will be to provide nutritional treatment to inpatients as well as delivering outpatient clinics in specific areas such as IBS, IBD, Coeliac disease and liver transplant. The successful candidate will work together with the whole team, contributing to service improvement, training, audit and development of standards.
The post holder will be fully supported by the existing B7 dietitians and therapy management and will provide support and supervision to B5, B6 and B4 dietetic assistant staff. You will also be involved in the supervision of students, linking in with universities to provide the best possible learning experience.
We are always looking for ways to improve and evolve and we are looking for an individual who will contribute to this forward thinking and innovative team. You will be supported to achieve your development goals and to access learning opportunities across the trust.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospitalis the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility.Broadgreen Hospitalis home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Women’s Hospitalspecialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheRoyal Liverpool University Hospitalis the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit theircareers page.
For full details see the Job Description attached.
Job Summary
To provide factually accurate, unbiased evidence based nutritional advice appropriate to the needs of individual. Advice will be provided using a patient-centred approach, in the context of multidisciplinary, multiagency delivery plans.
Job Purpose
To be a clinical lead in the Trust for nutrition and dietetic services to your own specialist area. This involves:-
1. Personally providing the dietetic service to in-patients and out-patients.
2. Educating/training other members of the multi-disciplinary team in specialist area.
3. Clinical supervision of newly qualified staff and Band 5/Band 6 dietitians on rotation.
4. Training of Student Dietitians.
5. Development and implementation of policies, protocols and guidelines relevant to clinical speciality.
This advert closes on Wednesday 4 Feb 2026