# Senior Dietitian - Nutrition Support Rehab & Community

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
- **Town:** Wolverhampton
- **Region:** Midlands
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Dietitian
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time, Flexible working, 18.75 hours per week (Hours worked over at least 3 days)
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-02T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-23T09:43:31.361Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Birmingham_Black_Country/Wolverhampton/The_Royal_Wolverhampton_NHS_Trust/Senior_Dietitian_Community_Nutrition_Support/Senior_Dietitian_Community_Nutrition_Support-v7828638
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7828638?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.royalwolverhampton.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are looking for an experienced Registered Dietitian to join our team of 30 clinical staff and an excellent support team providing the Dietetics Service to Wolverhampton and Cannock.

This vacancy is in our community team, and the successful candidate will work across Wolverhampton and Cannock Chase Hospital, predominantly in the field of nutrition support for stroke rehabilitation.

We are a friendly, supportive and dynamic team .  We take students on placement from BCU and Coventry and value CPD, development and excellence in practice.

### Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will work in inpatient rehabilitation, outpatients and community settings to deliver a high quality dietetics service for patients requiring nutrition support.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Assess diagnose and treat nutrition related problems in a variety of settings (eg rehab hospitals, patient homes, care homes, outpatients).

Devise and monitor enteral feeding regimens.

Work with outpatients & care homes promoting Food First as nutritional management.

Work closely with the wider MDT to optimise patient care and outcome post stroke.

Provide training to community colleagues on nutrition support and enteral feeding.

Contribute to the training & development of students on clinical placement, apprentice dietitians and junior colleagues.

Undertake audit and projects to promote service quality and development.

## Person Specification

### Other

**Essential**

- Ability to travel efficiently between community sites

### Communication Skills

**Essential**

- Excellent written & spoken English

### Experience and learning

**Essential**

- Experience delivering nutritional interventions in care homes and/or rehab

### Qualifications & registration

**Essential**

- HCPC Registration in Dietetics

**Desirable**

- Clinical Educators Course
- PENG Clinical Update

## Documents

- [wolverhampton map (pdf, 600.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2032)
- [flexible working commitment (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2380)
- [rwt professional standards (pdf, 95.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3048)
- [employee rewards booklet v.15 (pdf, 1.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2083)
- [rwt health & wellbeing offer (pdf, 945.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3027)
- [job description & person spec (pdf, 880.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10098721)
- [using ai when completing application forms (pdf, 320.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2969)

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