Lead Dietitian: Sponsorship Available

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

We are delighted to announce an exciting part time (30 hours) opportunity to work as a Lead Dietitian in Adult Mental Health (AMH) and Mental Health Services for Older People (MHSOP) within the North Yorkshire and York locality. The clinical aspect of this role is inpatient work across four wards at Cross Lane Hospital in Scarborough, providing dietetic input to patients with a variety of conditions from functional diagnoses such as depression and psychosis to organic diagnoses such as vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s dementia.

The successful candidate will be a skilled, enthusiastic, and dynamic Registered Dietitian with substantial clinical experience of complex dietetic delivery. As a Clinical Specialist, they will be required to work with the wider multi-disciplinary team (MDT), external partners and stakeholders; participate in service development; audit; research; pathway development; and training of clinical teams they work into, external stakeholders and students.

 

 

Main duties of the job

Accountable for own caseload including highly complex cases in a specialist field of practice, may co-work highly complex cases with less experienced dietitians. Work autonomously and as part of a team and assume professional accountability and responsibility for a specific specialist area.

Leads the education and development of others in specialist areas, including external partners. Will take on the role as practice educator in accordance with local dietetics University practice educator requirements. Responsible for maintaining own continuous professional development and supporting the professional development of other dietitians in specialist area.

Leads promotes and participates in research, audits, service development and project work. Lead responsibility for critically appraising, translating, and applying available research and supporting the development and implementation of evidence based practices.

Self-aware and able to modify and role model personal behaviours and actions in order to enhance own performance and support others to do so. Demonstrates personal effectiveness and contributes to and promotes collective and compassionate leadership. Provides leadership and support to others to promote the dietetics profession and dietetics practice. Provides care group or Trust wide expert advice or leadership in own area of specialism.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Pre-registration qualification in dietetics (relevant professional field) as recognised by HCPC) Registration with HCPC.
  • Registration with HCPC
  • Evidence of post-registration Masters level learning Or in the absence of masters level learning o equivalent experience in relevant area. E.g. relevant level 7 courses, researcher role, quality improvement activity, leading service development, project management, strategic leadership, NICE involvement, service evaluation.
  • Substantial clinical experience of complex dietetics delivery in relevant specialist area in collaboration with service users, families and relevant others.
  • International English Language Testing System (IELTS) level 7 (SLT =8) for International recruits

Desirable

  • Experience of working in Multidisciplinary Team
  • Complex clinical risk assessment and application in practice
  • Substantial knowledge of evidence- based practice in designated specialist are
  • Comprehensive awareness of professional standards and their application to practice

Experience/Knowledge

Essential

  • Significant experience of supporting people with mental health conditions, learning disability or autism
  • Significant understanding of the needs of service users with mental health conditions or learning disabilities or autism

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 15 September 2025

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