Specialist Eating Disorder Dietitian
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 09/09/2026
- Closes
- 16/09/2026
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 a Band 7 Specialist Eating Disorder Dietitian role within Livewell Southwest, working 37.5 hours per week. You will provide expert nutritional support across the Eating Disorder Pathway, including assessment and intervention, and contribute to service development. The role involves working autonomously within a multidisciplinary team, influencing care pathways, and delivering training. It's an opportunity to shape high-quality, recovery-focused care for individuals experiencing eating difficulties.
Key responsibilities
- Provide expert nutritional support as part of a multidisciplinary team to individuals experiencing eating difficulties.
- Work autonomously, exercising high levels of clinical judgement and decision-making in complex situations.
- Lead dietetic practice within the service, acting as the key source of specialist dietetic expertise and guidance.
- Contribute to policy development, care pathways, service improvement initiatives, and clinical governance.
- Deliver training, supervision, and consultation to other professionals on nutritional risk and eating disorders.
- Maintain accurate clinical documentation, outcome monitoring, and contribute to audit and service evaluation.
Essential criteria
- BSc in Human Nutrition and Dietetics or related qualification.
- Significant relevant experience and/ or evidence of MSc level study in a relevant area.
- Professional/Clinical knowledge acquired through degree plus specialist dietetic training to post graduate diploma level or equivalent plus significant, relevant experience.
- HCPC Registration
- Evidence of on-going professional development
- Member of British Dietetic Association
- An ability to be able to use highly developed interpersonal and communication skills to impact on the behaviour and views of clients with severely challenging, often life threatening behaviours on a frequent basis.
- Demonstrate a high level of empathy, self- awareness and emotional resilience having to cope with emotionally demanding situations on a frequent basis.
- Able to use advanced analytical skills and to concentrate for prolonged periods during emotive and stressful situations.
- Ability to demonstrate a high level of time management and organisational skills.
- Able to work within codes of practice of HCPC, Occupational Standards, British Dietetic Association (BDA) and policies and procedures.
- Highly specialist skills demonstrating varied comprehensive clinical experience in order to deliver best practice for a range of complex conditions.
- Ability to undertake dietetic assessments, including assessing for refeeding risk, as well as offer treatment and intervention.
- Ability to obtain information from those who are ambivalent to change, or do not wish to share their intake or engagement with compensatory behaviours.
- Ability to compassionately, challenge information provided that does not appear accurate.
- Ability to work across multiple services.
- An effective team worker who is empathetic and approachable
- Proactive, with an ability to set up new initiatives.
- Flexible regarding duties and ability to cope with change.
- Experience of working with those who suffer from eating disorders and or disordered eating, with various physical and psychological risks.
- Experience of working in a community eating disorder service.
- Experience of working with those who do not wish to have treatment.
- Experience of working with those who are at high risk of refeeding syndrome.
- Experience of working with those who are at high risk of an admission to either a medical or psychiatric Hospital secondary to their eating difficulties.
- Experience of working with those who are highly distressed.
- Experience of providing consultation and advice to the multi-disciplinary team.
- Varied and comprehensive post-graduate clinical experience across a range of clinical areas, including enteral feeding.
- Senior level experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
- Experience of delivering in-service training.
- Experience of interpreting and acting on complex clinical information including anthropometry, biochemistry,
- pharmacology and medical history to make decisions about client care.
- Evidence of active participation in audit activities in dietetic practice.
- Experience of dealing with distressed clients, carers or colleagues.
- Experience and competence in negotiating and recording aims of treatment and agreeing a plan of action with; client/relatives/carers/medical staff.
- Demonstrate specialist knowledge of Best Dietetic Practice in the treatment or management of nutritional needs.
- Evidence of an accurate up to date portfolio in order to demonstrate Continued Professional Development (CPD) lifelong learning and skills of reflective practice.
- Ability to deliver best practice for a range of more complex clinical conditions.
- Knowledge of Eating Disorders.
- Knowledge of MEEDS.
Desirable criteria
- PENG clinical update.
- A teaching qualification or experience of teaching groups.
- Certification of insertion of NG tubes.
- Ability to frequently travel independently and in a timely manner between Livewell Southwest sites and community locations including areas not served by public transport.
- Experience of leading and developing new initiatives/ services.
- Competence and experience in advanced
- communication skills including negotiation, motivational interviewing and evoking behavioural change in complex cases.
- Experience of working in a mental health unit/ ward/eating disorder unit.
- Experience and evidence of developing evidence based literature, guidelines and protocols for a range of more complex needs for a wide range of people e.g. clients with Mental Illness or neurological impairment, carers, general public and
- healthcare workers.
- Membership of Specialist Interest
- Group.
- Knowledge of different mental health illnesses, the risks and treatment interventions.
- Knowledge of legislation that supports the rights of those with mental health illnesses such as Mental Health and Mental Capacity Act.
- Knowledge of the impact of trauma.
- Knowledge of how to use system one.
- Knowledge of the personalised care framework.
- Knowledge of the cycle of change.
- Knowledge of how to respond appropriately to physical and psychological risks, specific to eating disorders.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Livewell Southwest
Specialist Eating Disorder Dietitian
The closing date is 16 September 2026
Job summary
37.5 hours per week.
Are you an experienced Dietitian looking for a role where you can combine clinical expertise, leadership and innovation? We're looking for a passionate Specialist Eating Disorder Dietitian to become a key member of our Eating Disorder Pathway spanning across the Eating Disorder Intensive Treatment Team (ED-ITT), The Eating Disorder Service (EDS) and the new Nutritional Risk Monitoring Clinic (NRMC), providing specialist nutritional support to people experiencing eating difficulties across these services.
In this rewarding Band 7 role, you'll work alongside a dedicated multidisciplinary team, delivering expert assessment and intervention, influencing service development, and leading dietetic practice within the pathway. This is a unique opportunity to help shape high-quality, recovery-focused care while developing your own specialist expertise in a supportive and forward-thinking pathway.
Main duties of the job
This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful difference to people experiencing eating difficulties and the physical and psychological challenges that can accompany them. This work spans across a range of different services with varying levels of risk, as well as in-reach work during admissions. Working as a senior speci
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