Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Specialist Dietitian - General Paediatrics and Home Enteral Feeding
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Role Overview
We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Specialist Dietitian (1.0 WTE) to join our team within both inpatient Paediatric patients and the Paediatric Children’s Home Enteral Feeding (HEF) Service in Nottinghamshire. This is an exciting chance to play a key role in providing high-quality dietetic care to children aged 0–19 years across diverse inpatient and community settings.
Role Details
You will join our vibrant Community Outreach Team, comprising around 24 staff who support more than 700 patients across the county. After completing your induction and training, you will have opportunities for blended working, including home-based working.
You will also be joining the inpatient paediatric dietitian team, based at QMC. You will become an integral member of the multidisciplinary team, delivering high-quality patient-centred care.
Benefits and Opportunities
At Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH), we are committed to developing our staff. You will have access to a wide range of CPD opportunities including formal training courses, audit, service evaluation development, and research leadership. Our service has an excellent track record of supporting staff progression, and NUH offers innovative career pathways, including Clinical Specialist and Clinical Academic (8a) roles. We have an innovative clinical supervision programme to support your continued development within this role. We also have excellent opportunities to be part of exciting commercial research.
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Clinical Responsibilities
- See patients as an inpatient for nutrition support and allergies.
- Manage a varied paediatric caseload within general inpatients and the HEF caseload (0–19 years), including children with complex needs, faltering growth, ARFID, and those requiring nutritional optimisation ahead of surgery.
- Conduct reviews in patients’ homes, schools, nurseries, respite centres, and other community settings.
- Work closely with Children’s Community Nursing Teams, specialist children’s nurses, and other partners to deliver joined-up care.
- Provide expertise in both nutritional management and practical aspects of feeding tubes and enteral feeding equipment.
Professional Responsibilities
- Prioritise and manage your own caseload and contribute to supporting junior staff within the team.
- Deliver training and support to families, carers, and professionals across community settings.
- Build strong working relationships with multidisciplinary colleagues and external partners to ensure safe, high-quality care.
- Support service evaluation, audit and research projects.
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Requirements
- A car and full UK driving licence are essential to meet the requirements of community visits.
About Us
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education, and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world-class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Sarah Kordecki
Job title: Specialist Dietitians
Email address: s.kordecki@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07812 276526
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