Specialist Dietitian
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 20/08/2026
- Closes
- 03/09/2026
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Role summary
This is a fixed-term Specialist Dietitian role covering maternity leave, based at Weston General Hospital. The post involves delivering high-quality nutritional care to acute inpatients and outpatients, focusing on ICU and medical wards, with some input to surgical wards. The role requires expertise in oral, enteral, and parenteral nutrition support, along with behaviour change strategies. It also includes service development, education, and student training.
Essential criteria
- oQ1 HCPC Registration
- oQ2 Evidence of continuing professional development
- oQ3 Degree/Post Graduate qualification in nutrition or dietetics
- oQ4 Clinical Supervisory Skills (Basic)
Desirable criteria
- oQ5 BDA Membership
- oQ6 PEN Group Clinical Update Course and/or Behaviour Change Course
- Knowledge and Experience
- oE1 Proven experience in: -Enteral Nutrition Support -Chronic Disease Management -Nutrition support in acute illness
- oE2 Working as part of a multi-professional Team
- oE3 Student Training
- oE5 Teaching Experience
- oE4 Audit Experience
- oE6 Experience of supervision of junior staff
- E7 Experience of writing protocols & guidelines
- oE8 Experience of working in the community
- oE9 Experience of Home Enteral Nutrition
- Skills and abilities
- oS1 Good communication skills at all levels -Oral -Written -Interpersona
- oS2 Good organisational skills
- oS4 Teaching/presentation skills in a variety of settings & to professional groups/ grades
- oS5 Computer skills & use of dietary analysis programmes
- oS6 Advanced clinical reasoning
- oS7 Behaviour & motivational interviewing skills
- oS8 Able to maintain effective working relationships across different professions
- oS9 Insight & sensitivity
- oS11 Team player & able to maintain effective working relationships
- oS12 Ability to process highly complex information or situations
- oS13 Ability to work under own initiative
- oS14 Ability to deal with challenging behaviours of patients, carers & students
- oS3 Time Management
- oS10 Active/committee member of BDA Specialist Interest Group
- oS15 Access to transport in order to deliver community working
- Qualifications and Training
- oQ1 HCPC Registration
- oQ2 Evidence of continuing professional development
- oQ3 Degree/Post Graduate qualification in nutrition or dietetics
- oQ4 Clinical Supervisory Skills (Basic)
- oQ5 BDA Membership
- oQ6 PEN Group Clinical Update Course and/or Behaviour Change Course
- Knowledge and Experience
- oE1 Proven experience in: -Enteral Nutrition Support -Chronic Disease Management -Nutrition support in acute illness
- oE2 Working as part of a multi-professional Team
- oE3 Student Training
- oE5 Teaching Experience
- oE4 Audit Experience
- oE6 Experience of supervision of junior staff
- E7 Experience of writing protocols & guidelines
- oE8 Experience of working in the community
- oE9 Experience of Home Enteral Nutrition
- Skills and abilities
- oS1 Good communication skills at all levels -Oral -Written -Interpersona
- oS2 Good organisational skills
- oS4 Teaching/presentation skills in a variety of settings & to professional groups/ grades
- oS5 Computer skills & use of dietary analysis programmes
- oS6 Advanced clinical reasoning
- oS7 Behaviour & motivational interviewing skills
- oS8 Able to maintain effective working relationships across different professions
- oS9 Insight & sensitivity
- oS11 Team player & able to maintain effective working relationships
- oS12 Ability to process highly complex information or situations
- oS13 Ability to work under own initiative
- oS14 Ability to deal with challenging behaviours of patients, carers & students
- oS3 Time Management
- oS10 Active/committee member of BDA Specialist Interest Group
- oS15 Access to transport in order to deliver community working
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 10d ago · Closes in 5d
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Job summary
This vacancy is for a Specialist Dietitian, maternity leave cover. The post is based at our Weston General Hospital, alongside other Dietitians & Dietetic Support Workers delivering high quality nutritional care. The role will focus on acute inpatient beds & outpatients, across a number of pathways but primarily within specialist areas of ICU and medical inpatient wards. Input to surgical wards is also required, particularly when patients initially step down from ICU.
You will require to demonstrate core skills in oral, enteral and parenteral nutrition support along with behaviour change strategies.
Work will be augmented with wider service development, education and student training.
All members of the team work one Bank Holiday a year.
Main duties of the job
The post will provide expert nutritional care across a range of pathways, notably critical care & medicine.
The role works closely with a wide range of professionals within the MDT
Ensure effective communication at all levels of health care professionals regarding the nutritional care of individual patients.
Impart information to patients in situations which could be distressing / emotional for the patient, therefore require use of holistic skills.
Use negotiation skills to motivate and negotiate dietary change this will require using a variety of evaluation strategies and adapting communication
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