Clinical Lead Cancer Dietitian | Calderdale and NHS Foundation Trust

Overview

Candidates must have previous NHS Dietetic experience, either as an undergraduate or postgraduate.

The post holder will play a central role in expanding our innovative prehabilitation service through the Active Together Programme, a unique collaboration with Yorkshire Cancer Research, local universities, and councils. This initiative empowers individuals to enhance their health and wellbeing through personalised support before, during, and after cancer treatment.

As a Clinical Lead Dietitian the post holder will ensure the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based, client-centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate dietetic interventions, while also contributing to the development of services across the Trust and within the community.

The post holder will mentor and support colleagues, guiding the education and supervision of clinical staff, and working alongside fitness professionals in community settings.

The post holder will deliver services across a range of locations, including Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust sites, council and leisure facilities, university campuses, and other community venues, ensuring care is accessible, consistent, and centred around the needs of those we support.

Interviews will be held face-to-face at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary on Wednesday, 10th February.

• Lead the delivery of cancer prehabilitation and rehabilitation dietetic services across hospital and community settings.
• Provide advanced nutritional assessments and tailored dietetic interventions for individuals before, during, and after cancer treatment, including those on artificial nutrition support.
• Act as the clinical lead for dietetics within the Active Together Programme, ensuring high standards of care and evidence-based practice across multiple tumour sites.
• Supervise and mentor dietitians, support workers, and fitness professionals, fostering professional development and clinical excellence.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams (MDTs), universities, councils, and community partners to deliver integrated, patient-centred care.
• Organise and deliver group education and rehabilitation workshops.
• Participate in service development, audits, research, and data collection to support programme evaluation and continuous improvement.
• Support operational management, including staff appraisals, rota planning, recruitment, and deputising for the Prehabilitation Service Lead.
• Ensure safe and effective use of enteral feeding equipment and compliance with governance, risk management, and data protection policies.
• Represent the Trust and the Active Together Programme at local, regional, and national levels, promoting best practice and innovation in cancer care.

CHFT is an integrated Trust of 6,500+ colleagues providing hospital and community services to patients and communities across Calderdale and Kirklees. We are rated as ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission, are a top performing Trust for Elective Recovery, Emergency and Cancer Care and widely acknowledged as a national digital lead when it comes to caring for people across our local and regional systems.

Our people are at the core of everything we do, hence our commitment to One Culture of Care. Our focus is to care for and support each other in order to provide outstanding compassionate care to our patients. That is why we are looking for an inclusive collaborative, creative, innovative and compassionate leader to join us in this role.

• To act as Clinical Lead Dietitian within the Cancer prehabilitation and rehabilitation service at both sites and within the community.
• Lead the development and integration of best practice within the clinical setting, supporting effective interventions in cancer prehabilitation and rehabilitation across multiple tumour sites, in line with the latest evidence base.
• Deliver specialised treatments informed by the most current clinical evidence, maintaining up-to-date knowledge through engagement with relevant literature, research tools, and collaboration with practitioners both within and outside the service.
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