Senior Lecturer in Dietetics

Full time – 37 hours per week

Closing date 26/10/2025 at 23:30

This opportunity would ideally suit a Band 7 or an experienced Band 6 Dietitian working in the NHS (or equivalent) that has expertise in formal teaching, training and supervision.

If you have any questions and/or would like to meet our friendly team, you would be most welcome to our open event on Wednesday 15^th October 2025 16:00-17:00pm. To book, please contact Katie Peck, Associate Head of School - Professional Lead [Dietetics & Occupational Therapy] by email: k.peck@shu.ac.uk

Our School of Health and Social Care delivers a well-established, large and diverse portfolio of undergraduate, postgraduate and degree apprenticeship courses leading to registration in 14 different professions.

You will be involved in leading the delivery of our MSc Dietetics course and contributing to our BSc Hons Dietetics – Degree Apprenticeship courses and inter-professional portfolio. We are looking for an individual who can inspire, enthuse and connect with our students from a range of backgrounds and make a valuable contribution to their learning experience, whilst preparing them for contemporary dietetic practice.

Alongside this is the opportunity to develop your career, further your academic profile and enhance your teaching through studying for the Postgraduate Certificate - Teaching in Higher Education, as appropriate.

You must be an HCPC-registered dietitian and have well-developed current knowledge and an understanding of critical, practical, and theoretical issues relevant to contemporary dietetic practice.

You will ideally be at the forefront of new ways of working in the NHS, in either primary or secondary settings, demonstrating care innovation and emergent management pathways and/or have experience of formal teaching and pre-registration dietetic education.

The role requires you to contribute to our pre-registration masters and apprenticeship course through teaching, assessment and research activity whilst support academic citizenship and retaining strong links with practice partners. It would be envisaged that you would be part of our team, leading dietetic pre-registration education, whilst retaining strong links with practice partners.

If this sounds like something you would enjoy, we look forward to hearing from you!

We offer a diverse range of benefits and opportunities to pursue a rewarding and fulfilling career in a supportive environment.

You will be contractually enrolled into the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) – one of the largest and most generous defined benefit pension schemes in the country.

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If you are, or have been, a recent member of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) directly prior to joining us, you can choose to opt out of the TPS and remain in the USS. Please contact the Pensions team to discuss options available.

For this job, we particularly welcome applications from minority ethnic applicants who are underrepresented in this area/ this type of job at Sheffield Hallam.

The University may be able to sponsor the employment of international applicant in this role; this will depend on a number of factors specific to the individual applicant.

We welcome applications for job-share, part-time and flexible working arrangements.

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