# Clinical Dietetic Education Practitioner

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** St Peter's Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Practitioner
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £51657.00 to £58785.00
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time, Flexible working, 22.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-11-27T08:00:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-11-12T15:39:45.308Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8403937
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8403937?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.ashfordstpeters.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Are you passionate about supporting, training and developing our new and existing dietetic workforce? If so, this is the role for you!

We are looking to employ a Clinical Dietetic Education Practitioner. The successful candidate will work with students, apprentices, newly graduated and existing dietitians across all of our trust sites to support their clinical development.

This post requires expert clinical knowledge and experience within dietetics, to deliver high quality training, education and clinical support. You will be part of a newly formed therapy clinical practice development team, led by the AHP workforce lead.

ASPH offers excellent access to supervision and opportunities for continual professional development. This is an example of our yearly AHP day celebration: Allied Health Professional Day

### Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for supporting the clinical development of Dietetic apprentices and students in practice, in partnership with their supervisors. Functioning as a practicing professional working directly alongside the Dietitians in clinical practice is part of this role.

You will lead on design and delivery of the induction of Dietitians and co-ordinate Dietetic student and apprenticeship placements.

Alongside the AHP workforce lead and other members of the development team, you will ensure a quality environment for learning and practicing is provided for Dietitians, apprentices and students.

You will work with the AHP Workforce lead and HR to plan future roles for graduating Dietitians in order to retain them in the Trust or wider health system. Participating in the future planning and recruiting of cohorts onto the Dietetic Apprenticeship programmes is also part of this role. You will also be helping to deliver the AHP Preceptorship programme.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Candidates will need to hold a Dietitian BSc (Hons)Degree or equivalent with significant experience at NHS band 6 level or equivalent experience. Candidates will need to demonstrate recent experience in an acute hospital setting in the UK and able to evidence experience of teaching/facilitating group and individual learning. Further evidence in developing dietetic practice within the clinical setting is required. The successful candidate would need to be able to work independently as well as have the ability to work effectively within a team.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- Ability to give effective feedback
- Ability to teach and facilitate learning in the classroom and clinical environments

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Knowledge of preceptorship principles and standards

### Experience

**Essential**

- Significant experience at Band 6 level
- Evidence of teaching/ facilitating group and individual learners
- Recent evidence of developing dietetic practice within the clinical setting
- Experience of enteral feeding

**Desirable**

- Experience within a clinical teaching role

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