NHS
Maternity and Obstetrics Specialist Diabetes Dietitian
NHS, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Maternity and Obstetrics Specialist Diabetes Dietitian
The closing date is 17 November 2025
NEW FUNDING for this B7 0.6WTE across 3 days: Mondays at the Alexandra Hospital Redditch, Tuesdays at Kidderminster Hospital and Fridays at Worcestershire Royal Hospital.
The post holder will be responsible for setting and running the day‑to‑day clinical, professional, and operational management of the maternity and obstetrics diabetes service across Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Clinical responsibilities will include providing specialist dietetic care to women with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, as well as those with rarer forms such as Maturity‑Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY) or Type 3c diabetes during pregnancy, in line with Saving Babies Lives recommendations. The post holder will also provide dietetic support for women with gestational diabetes.
Service delivery will include dietetic cover for outpatient clinics, incorporating a mix of face‑to‑face group education sessions, individual consultations, clinic appointments, and telephone support.
Main duties of the job
To work closely with dietetic professional & clinical lead to ensure safe and effective dietetic services within Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust
To be the lead dietitian for staff working in maternity services
To provide a specialist, effective, flexible clinical dietetic service to the maternity and antenatal diabetes service.
To set up and oversee the day‑to‑day planning, co‑ordination, monitoring, evaluation and delivery of the dietetic service to maternity services.
To be the professional lead for a specialist clinical area.
To work jointly with the specialty team leaders across dietetics, professional lead and department manager.
Working as an experienced autonomous practitioner, to provide a high standard of patient focused care through specialised assessment.
To contribute to the therapy clinical governance agenda to further improve the quality of the service.
To provide supervision, support and education to qualified staff.
About us Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester.
Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient‑centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Being open and honest
Ensuring people feel cared for
Showing respect to everyone
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation – this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
DBS Checks and Costs Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.
Job responsibilities For complete details of the scope of this post, including the full range of duties, responsibilities, and professional requirements, applicants are encouraged to consult the accompanying job description and person specification.
Person Specification Qualifications
Dietetic degree
Experience
Significant post‑graduation experience in the NHS.
Experience of developing a clinical service
Experience of working in specialist areas as part of a team.
Experience of implementing evidence‑based practice for continuous service improvement.
Experience of teaching students and healthcare professionals.
Experience in implementing clinical governance.
Evidence of active participation in audit.
Sound clinical knowledge in a relevant specialist clinical area.
Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy skills.
Evidence of excellent verbal communication skills including active listening skills.
Evidence of dealing with sensitive communication issues and barriers to communication.
Evidence of excellent written skills.
Evidence of communication skills of empowerment and dealing with barriers to change.
Evidence of clinical reasoning skills relating to working with complexities.
Able to research evidence‑based practice and apply to practice.
Ability to train students to graduate level.
Excellent presentation skills.
Evidence of training professionals in formal and informal settings.
Ability to hold group patient education sessions.
Evidence of effective multidisciplinary team working.
Evidence of dealing with situations when individuals show anxiety, anger, emotional distress.
Evidence of delivering a high‑quality patient‑centred service.
Highly developed problem‑solving skills.
Ability to maintain patient confidentiality.
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.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
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NEW FUNDING for this B7 0.6WTE across 3 days: Mondays at the Alexandra Hospital Redditch, Tuesdays at Kidderminster Hospital and Fridays at Worcestershire Royal Hospital.
The post holder will be responsible for setting and running the day‑to‑day clinical, professional, and operational management of the maternity and obstetrics diabetes service across Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Clinical responsibilities will include providing specialist dietetic care to women with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, as well as those with rarer forms such as Maturity‑Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY) or Type 3c diabetes during pregnancy, in line with Saving Babies Lives recommendations. The post holder will also provide dietetic support for women with gestational diabetes.
Service delivery will include dietetic cover for outpatient clinics, incorporating a mix of face‑to‑face group education sessions, individual consultations, clinic appointments, and telephone support.
Main duties of the job
To work closely with dietetic professional & clinical lead to ensure safe and effective dietetic services within Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust
To be the lead dietitian for staff working in maternity services
To provide a specialist, effective, flexible clinical dietetic service to the maternity and antenatal diabetes service.
To set up and oversee the day‑to‑day planning, co‑ordination, monitoring, evaluation and delivery of the dietetic service to maternity services.
To be the professional lead for a specialist clinical area.
To work jointly with the specialty team leaders across dietetics, professional lead and department manager.
Working as an experienced autonomous practitioner, to provide a high standard of patient focused care through specialised assessment.
To contribute to the therapy clinical governance agenda to further improve the quality of the service.
To provide supervision, support and education to qualified staff.
About us Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester.
Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient‑centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Being open and honest
Ensuring people feel cared for
Showing respect to everyone
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation – this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
DBS Checks and Costs Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.
Job responsibilities For complete details of the scope of this post, including the full range of duties, responsibilities, and professional requirements, applicants are encouraged to consult the accompanying job description and person specification.
Person Specification Qualifications
Dietetic degree
Experience
Significant post‑graduation experience in the NHS.
Experience of developing a clinical service
Experience of working in specialist areas as part of a team.
Experience of implementing evidence‑based practice for continuous service improvement.
Experience of teaching students and healthcare professionals.
Experience in implementing clinical governance.
Evidence of active participation in audit.
Sound clinical knowledge in a relevant specialist clinical area.
Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy skills.
Evidence of excellent verbal communication skills including active listening skills.
Evidence of dealing with sensitive communication issues and barriers to communication.
Evidence of excellent written skills.
Evidence of communication skills of empowerment and dealing with barriers to change.
Evidence of clinical reasoning skills relating to working with complexities.
Able to research evidence‑based practice and apply to practice.
Ability to train students to graduate level.
Excellent presentation skills.
Evidence of training professionals in formal and informal settings.
Ability to hold group patient education sessions.
Evidence of effective multidisciplinary team working.
Evidence of dealing with situations when individuals show anxiety, anger, emotional distress.
Evidence of delivering a high‑quality patient‑centred service.
Highly developed problem‑solving skills.
Ability to maintain patient confidentiality.
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.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
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