Specialist Paediatric Dietitian | Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 10 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £38,682 - £46,580 per annum. pr |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 March 2026 |
| Location: | Hull, HU3 2JZ |
| Company: | Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7782079/356-26-7782079 |
Summary
Band 6 Specialist Paediatric Dietitian (Band 5-6 progression will be considered)
As a Specialist Paediatric Dietitian, you will provide autonomous, evidence‑based dietetic care to infants, children and young people across a wide range of clinical conditions. You will manage a defined paediatric caseload, carrying out detailed nutritional assessments, developing personalised care plans, and delivering specialist advice to children, families, and the multidisciplinary team. You will work across inpatient wards, outpatient clinics, MDT meetings, and community interfaces to ensure high‑quality, child‑centred nutritional care.
You will use advanced communication and clinical reasoning skills to support families through complex and sometimes sensitive situations, including feeding difficulties, faltering growth, food allergies, and children requiring enteral nutrition. You will also provide cross‑cover for aspects of paediatric diabetes care during periods of staffing pressure, within your scope of competence and with appropriate training and supervision.
This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated clinician seeking to develop specialist paediatric skills within a supportive, progressive dietetic team.
Provide specialist nutritional assessment and evidence‑based dietetic interventions for infants, children and young people with a broad range of paediatric conditions.
Manage a defined paediatric caseload across inpatient wards and outpatient clinics, prioritising care in line with clinical need.
Use advanced anthropometric, biochemical and clinical assessment skills to inform nutritional diagnosis, treatment planning and evaluation.
Deliver advice for conditions including faltering growth, feeding difficulties, food allergies, gastrointestinal disorders and disease‑related malnutrition.
Support children requiring enteral feeding, including discharge planning and coordination with community teams and homecare providers.
Communicate complex and sensitive information using age‑appropriate and family‑centred approaches.
Work collaboratively within the paediatric MDT, contributing to ward rounds, case discussions and service pathways.
Provide cross‑cover for selected paediatric diabetes duties during periods of staff absence, including basic dietary review and carbohydrate education, working within agreed competencies.
Contribute to audits, service development and quality improvement initiatives within paediatric dietetics.
Support the supervision and development of student dietitians and junior staff as appropriate.
Maintain accurate, timely and professional records using electronic patient systems in line with Trust policy.
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated.
We welcome applications from candidates who require Skilled Worker Visa sponsorship to work in the UK, and these will be considered alongside all other applications in line with our commitment to equality and inclusion.
Applicants can determine their potential eligibility for a Certificate of Sponsorship by reviewing the Skilled Worker Visa criteria set out by UKVI on the gov.uk website.
This advert closes on Tuesday 24 Feb 2026