Community Dietitian
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time, Flexible working
- Hours / week
- 17.5
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 25/09/2026
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.
“Visa sponsorship under the Health and Care Worker visa route can only be considered if the prorated salary meets the minimum threshold of £25,000, as required by the UK Visas and Immigration. Therefore, sponsorship is not possible due to the working hours.”Quoted verbatim from the source advert
Role summary
This is a part-time, fixed-term Band 5 Community Dietitian role in Barnsley, focusing on community nutrition and dietetics. The post involves managing a varied caseload across community clinics, care homes, and housebound patients, providing nutrition support and general dietetic interventions. The successful candidate will work as part of a friendly team, requiring excellent communication, organisation, and time management skills, and will contribute to student dietitian training.
Key responsibilities
- Manage a caseload requiring dietetic intervention in the community, including care homes, clinics, and patients' homes.
- Provide dietetic assessment and intervention for a range of conditions, including nutrition support and general dietetics.
- Work as part of the dietetic and multidisciplinary team, maintaining a patient-centred approach.
- Organise, produce, deliver, and evaluate training on nutrition and dietetics for staff, patients, and carers.
- Maintain professional development through CPD activities and reflective practice, and assist with the supervision and training of student dietitians.
Essential criteria
- Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post. A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).
- BSc/MSc or Post-graduate Diploma in Dietetics.
- Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
- Can communicate specialist dietetic information in an understandable form to patients and carers on a one to one or group basis, and in written form.
- Can demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Able to work effectively as part of dietetic and multidisciplinary team.
- Skilled in counselling and behaviour change techniques.
- Able to assess and treat patients requiring dietetic intervention and to monitor and adapt dietetic treatment as appropriate.
- Computer literate in Microsoft PowerPoint internet and Word.
- Experience of working in a therapy setting across the health community (inpatients and outpatients).
- Demonstrate commitment to professional and personal development. Able to reflect on clinical practice to enhance competency.
- Able to work independently and using own initiative
- Use time management skills to effectively organise, prioritise and manage a demanding caseload that may be subject to unforeseen changes.
- Able to make informed clinical and non-clinical decisions under pressure.
- Confident, enthusiastic, committed and displays proactive approach.
- Adaptable and flexible around working times and practices including evening and weekend work where necessary.
- Ability to travel around the Trust as appropriate to role.
- Demonstrate a willingness to undertake training as relevant to the role.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of other post-registration education and training.
- Presentation/teaching skills.
- Audit skills.
- Experience of training student dieticians.
- Member of British Dietetic Association.
- Appropriate membership to specialist dietetic interest group/s.
- Behaviour change training level 1.
- Clinical supervisory skills course.
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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South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust
Community Dietitian
The closing date is 25 September 2026
Job summary
We are looking for an
enthusiastic Band 5 Dietitian to join our busy Community Nutrition &
Dietetics Service in Barnsley, for 1 year from November 2026 (fixed term contract ) on a part time basis (17.5hours/week).
The post is varied and
interesting, covering a range of community dietetics including community
clinics, care homes and people who are housebound. The caseload includes
nutrition support & general dietetics.
Our team is friendly and
welcoming, supporting each other to provide the best nutritional care for the
people of Barnsley.
You will need excellent team
working, communication, organisation and time management skills, as well as be
able to demonstrate a commitment to CPD.
This is a
community-based role; applicants must have a driving license and access to a
vehicle for work purposes. A
contribution to the training of student dietitians is also expected.
Visa sponsorship under the Health and Care Worker visa route can only be considered if the prorated salary meets the minimum threshold of £25,000, as required by the UK Visas and Immigration. Therefore, sponsorship is not possible due to the working hours.
**We are happy to accept applications from candidates who can prove their right to work in the UK or via alternative visa routes.
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