Advanced Specialist Dietitian

This is an excellent opportunity to join our dynamic dietetic team, which provides clinical dietetic services across a range of specialist areas for both children and adults in the community and acute settings throughout Fife. We maintain strong collaborative links with Pharmacy, Prescribing, and Health Promotion Teams.

We are seeking an experienced and innovative Dietitian with excellent clinical, organisational, communication, digital and people skills to work within the Eating Disorders Advanced Intervention Team (EDAIT). This role involves delivering comprehensive dietetic services to adults with eating disorders, working within the community-based multidisciplinary EDAIT team based in Cardenden. Travel will be required throughout all areas of Fife. You will provide a Dietetic service to specialist clinics, out-patients and domiciliary visits to patient’s homes as appropriate. The post requires close liaison with members of the EDAIT.

The post is managed within the Mental Health and Learning Disabilities (MH and LD) team which comprises of nine Dietitians that provide a service across a range of specialist multidisciplinary teams including CAHMS, Community Mental Health and Learning Disabilities. The key clinical areas for the MH and LD team are dietary assessments and review of patients’ nutritional status and support to patients requiring artificial nutrition, oral nutritional supplementation, weight management, physical health and texture modification.

You will be supported by the Clinical Lead Dietitian for the MH and LD team, also by your peers within the team and across the department.

The Nutrition & Clinical Dietetic Service

This is a Fife wide service, with a leadership structure arranged around clinical teams. These are Acute, Weight Management & Diabetes, Mental Health & Learning Disabilities, Nutritional Support, Older People, Infant Nutrition, CYP & Paediatrics. We work collaboratively with the Dietitian and Nutritionists in the Health Promotion Food & Health Teams. Fife has a Non Prescribing Ordering Model for Oral Nutritional Supplements and enteral feeds. We have a range of services using dietetic led models of care and non-medical prescribing Dietitians.The Dietetic Service provides undergraduate and graduate Dietetic student training for A, B & C placements every year. All staff participates in the delivery and organisation of the programmes. New graduates to Fife will have an opportunity to participate in rotation across teams, as part of their continuing development. The Department arranges regular postgraduate training sessions and supports staff in their continuing professional development. The Service has good administration and IT support, social media and online resources.Registered with HCPC, you will have the skills, competencies and experience appropriate for the post. Induction and training will be provided to facilitate transition into your new role.

If you want to find out more about this role, please email Elspeth Ryan, Clinical Lead Dietitian - elspeth.ryan@nhs.scot to arrange an informal discussion.

Unsuccessful candidates may be offered the option to join the Dietetic bank.

Due to legislative changes from 1 April 2025, this post may require a different level of criminal records check done than is currently the case. If the post is assessed as a "regulated role", your appointment will be subject to joining the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. If there is any change to what is currently required, this will be confirmed by either the Hiring Manager or the Recruitment Team. For more details on these changes please visit: Disclosure Scotland Changes.

NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. If you are not a United Kingdom (UK) or Irish National, you are required to confirm your right to work in your application.

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.