Band 5 Rotational Dietitian
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 17/09/2026
- Closes
- 01/10/2026
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Role summary
This is a Band 5 Rotational Dietitian post within the Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership, offering opportunities to work across integrated acute and community dietetic services. The role involves gaining clinical experience in various acute dietetic teams, including gastroenterology, surgery, diabetes, and stroke, as well as community home enteral feeding and general practice. The successful candidate will manage a patient caseload, formulate nutritional care plans, and participate in patient education and student training.
Key responsibilities
- Contribute to the delivery of dietetic services to adult patients across Mid Cheshire Hospitals Trust and Central Cheshire.
- Manage and prioritise a defined patient caseload on wards at Leighton Hospital, provide a regular general dietetic clinic, and patient education.
- Formulate, deliver and monitor nutritional care plans for referred patients across a range of general wards and outpatient settings.
- Deliver the dietetic service to non-complex clinical areas such as General Medicine including cardiology, respiratory medicine and general Surgery includes orthopaedics.
- Assess nutritional status, estimate nutritional intake and requirements, and collect relevant information to formulate nutritional care plans.
- Monitor and review nutritional care plans against outcome measures and adjust care plans to facilitate achievement of goals.
Essential criteria
- HCPC registration pending
- Acute NHS experience
- one to one patient education and group dietetic intervention
Desirable criteria
- Community NHS experience
- experience in enteral nutrition
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Band 5 Rotational Dietitian
The closing date is 01 October 2026
Job summary
Are you newly qualified or a band 5 dietitian looking for a rotational post? The dietetic service within Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership has great opportunities for you to work in a band 5 rotational post across our integrated acute and community dietetic service.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidates will be part of the band 5 rotation gaining clinical experience in both the acute dietetic teams. They will develop their dietetic skills within a variety of clinical areas providing a service to in-patients wards and out-patients clinics based at Leighton Hospital, rotating through gastroenterology, surgery, diabetes and stroke. There is also opportunity to work with the community home enteral feeding dietetic team and general practice service offering a wider experience at the start of a career.
Attendance at regular huddle meetings supports extending clinical practice and workload management, alongside regular supervision with your mentor promoting advancement of your clinical skills and confidence.
The post holder will be involved in on-going health care professional training in nutritional screening /food first advice and structured group patient education linked to their rotation including cardiac rehabilitation,
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