Clinical Specialist Nutrition Support Dietitian

Job overview

Are you an experienced HCPC-registered dietitian who is passionate about developing clinical practice, supporting the growth of others and driving service improvement?

We're looking for a Clinical Specialist Nutrition Support Dietitian to join our welcoming and forward-thinking Community Nutrition and Dietetics team.

This role has been developed following the success of a similar model within our Allied Health Professional (AHP) services offering a unique opportunity to shape the role and make it your own, while influencing the future of specialist nutritional care, across our community services.

You'll provide a high level of dietetic expertise for adults with complex nutritional needs, including those requiring specialist nutrition support in primary care, patients living with frailty or complex tissue damage and home enterally fed patients (HEF). Working across outpatient clinics, patients' own homes and care settings, you'll work alongside an experienced Band 7 Clinical Lead to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care.

Beyond your clinical expertise, you'll play an important role in developing the service and supporting the clinical development of colleagues through supervision, mentoring and education. You'll also help strengthen partnerships with multidisciplinary teams and external services, ensuring joined-up care and contributing to the continued growth and innovation of the service.

Main duties of the job

If you're looking for a role where you can combine advanced clinical practice with leadership, service development and the opportunity to make a lasting impact, we'd love to hear from you.

As a Clinical Specialist Nutrition Support Dietitian, you will:

• Provide specialist nutritional care for adults requiring nutrition support across community settings, both in primary care caseloads, such as frailty and sarcopenia, tissue damage, as well as complex home enterally fed patients.
• Work across outpatient clinics, patients' own homes, and care and nursing homes, to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care.
• Support the clinical development of colleagues, students and apprentices, sharing specialist knowledge, through supervision, mentoring, clinical professional development (CPD) and training
• Contribute to the ongoing development of the Community Dietetics service, helping to shape and improve how care is delivered.
• Build and strengthen partnerships with multidisciplinary teams and external services to support integrated care.
• Lead and contribute to education, quality improvement, clinical governance and service innovation.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.

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.