Community Dietitian

Job overview

This exciting, varied Band 5 Dietitian post offers the opportunity to develop a broad range of clinical skills across a varied and diverse community caseload. The successful candidate will provide nutritional care in a range of settings, including outpatient clinics, virtual community inpatient wards and patients' own homes. The role also includes delivering group education on weight management and diabetes.

This role would be ideal for a newly qualified Dietitian or for an existing band 5 Dietitian wanting to expand their experience within a supportive and innovative service.

We are a mobile working service and offer our patients the choice of face-to-face, virtual and phone appointments as well as home visits. To support this, we have excellent IT access and support staff home-working where appropriate. IT exampled.

As a team we strongly value continuing professional development and offer an employee-led appraisal process and personal development plan. We will support you to develop your ideas for research and audit and offer collaboration and training with our Research & Development and Clinical Effectiveness teams. We also engage in student training and facilitate teaching opportunities.

We are looking for enthusiastic, skilled, and committed dietitians to join this forward-thinking team.

Main duties of the job

• Working under the guidance of the Team Lead Dietitian, to provide dietetic care to a varied and diverse caseload of patients in the community as outlined above.
• Travelling to and providing care at various sites including but not limited to community hospitals, patients’ homes, nursing homes, GP practices and some home working.
• Delivering a proportion of care using online platforms e.g. OneConsultation, MS Teams and Webex
• Delivering diabetes and weight management education groups.
• Supporting our Dietetic learners.
• Mentoring Dietetic Assistant Practitioners.
• Involvement in departmental research activity and quality improvement project work.
• Contribute to service improvement conversations in dedicated meetings.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The “must haves” for this role:

• Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics
• Registered with Health Care Professionals Council and full BDA membership
• Experience of working in acute/community setting as a dietitian or dietetic learner/student
• Ability to prioritise workload and work flexibly - travelling to multiple sites is required
• Ability to work from home at time with access to WiFi using equipment provided by BHFT
• Car driver would be an advantage

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification. Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role. We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants. However, it’s important that examples and responses given in your supporting statement genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey.

In addition to explaining how you meet the person specification, you must complete your employment history for at least the last five years. Any experience, skills or responsibilities referenced in your supporting statement should be evidenced within your employment history. Applications that do not include sufficient employment history to support the experience claimed may not be shortlisted.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Stonewall Proud Employer, Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Tina Howe on 07717432859 or email: tina.howe@berkshire.nhs.uk who’ll be delighted to help.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

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.