Weight Management Dietitian
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 08/09/2026
- Closes
- 22/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Dietitian to join the Specialist Weight Management Team at Aintree Hospital. The role involves delivering specialist dietetic services to patients living with obesity, providing assessment and treatment in outpatient settings, both face-to-face and virtually. The successful candidate will work with patients on conservative approaches, medical management, and bariatric surgery support. This position offers a blend of dietetic skills, wellbeing interventions, and behaviour change, with opportunities to participate in service development and clinical trials.
Essential criteria
- Time management - able to prioritise work and keep to time in an outpatient setting
Desirable criteria
- Clinical placements in a variety of different settings
- Experience of multi-disciplinary working
- Communication skills to effectively convey information both written and verbal
- Problem solving skills
- IT skills
- BSc in Nutrition and Dietetics
- Current or pending registration with HCPC.
- Membership of BDA or equivalent professional indemnity.
- Time management - able to prioritise work and keep to time in an outpatient setting
- Clinical placements in a variety of different settings
- Experience of multi-disciplinary working
- Communication skills to effectively convey information both written and verbal
- Problem solving skills
- IT skills
- BSc in Nutrition and Dietetics
- Current or pending registration with HCPC.
- Membership of BDA or equivalent professional indemnity.
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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Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Weight Management Dietitian
The closing date is 22 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and enthusiastic Band 5 Dietitian to join the Specialist Weight Management Team at Aintree Hospital. We are a highly specialist Tier 3 Service treating and managing people living with obesity across Liverpool and surrounding areas.
The service is led by [contact details removed] and you will be joined by a committed team of consultants, GP's, Physiotherapists, Dietitians, an Occupational Therapist, Assistant Practitioners and Administrators.
Main duties of the job
Working closely with members of the MDT, the post holder will be responsible for helping to deliver a specialist dietetic service to patients living with obesity and related disorders.
The successful candidate will provide specialist assessment and treatment for individuals with complex obesity in an outpatient service across both hospital and community sites (both in face to face and virtual settings).
Assessment and treatment will be in the form of clinics and groups. There may be opportunities available to provide dietetic input to clinical trials.
You will work alongside patients to manage their weight with conservative approaches, medical management, as well as supporting patients wishing to pursue bariatric surgery
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