Renal Dietitan

University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust

Renal Dietitian

The closing date is 01 December 2025

We are looking for an experienced renal dietitian to join our team to support maternity leave. The post holder will join a well established and supportive team to deliver renal dietetic care to inpatients on our acute ward and outpatients within haemodialysis and chronic Kidney disease and home therapy clinics, these are a combination of both dietetic led and MDT clinics. There may be the requirement to travel to our dialysis units in Stafford and Crewe to support service delivery.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for managing your specialist caseload, maintaining associated records.

You will work closely with other renal dietitian team members and the wider adult acute dietetic team to ensure timely dietetic care, prioritising the workload within the team, supporting other members as appropriate, this includes dietetic assistants and student dietitians.

You will cover inpatient and out patient areas including haemodialysis units.

You will have the opportunity to participate in staff training within the MDT, including nursing, medical colleagues, medical students and nursing assistants.

You will have the opportunity to work closely with catering colleagues, and AHPs to deliver a quality service to our renal patients and service users.

About us

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.

Job responsibilities

• Provides continuity of care across stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD).
• To work as part of the multi-disciplinary team providing therapy input to patients in renal and to liaise with other disciplines and agencies as required in the planning and implementation of patient care.
• To liaise with and work as an integral member of the multi-disciplinary team, building and maintaining effective working relationships within the Trust and the health economy.Liaise with dietitians from other Trusts and other Healthcare professionals concerning patient treatments and progress with dietary regimens, depending on the patients clinical condition and need.
• To educate patients and their relatives / carers about their condition and its significance and ensure that care information and support is available.
• To communicate and process complex and sensitive information to and from patients, carers and multi-disciplinary team.
• To plan, implement and evaluate specialist treatment plans for patients who may have complex needs, including physiological, psychological and social factors, reviewing and adapting treatment plans to suit the patients individual needs.
• To actively participate in ward meetings, ward education ward rounds, case conferences as appropriate

For further details, please see job description

Person Specification Qualifications

• BDA Renal Modules

Experience

• Previous enhanced experience within renal dietetics as a registrant dietitian
• NHS experience
• Highly developed and accurate written and verbal communication skills and the ability to adapt appropriately for the target audience
• Leadership training

Personal Qualities

• Delivers work of consistent and predictable high quality

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.

University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust