Specialist Community Dietitian

Job overview

Specialist Community Dietitian Band 6

King Edward VII Hospital

Full time (37.5hrs)

East Berkshire Community Dietetic Service based in Windsor has an opportunity to offer a permanent full time Band 6 role.

The post holder will be covering a varied community caseload, including a case load of home enteral nutrition, gastro clinics as well as patients requiring nutritional support. There are also opportunities to develop experience and skills in paediatric dietetics, low-FODMAP diets as well as coaching and mentoring junior staff.

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.

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 continually striving to improve the service we offer our patients and embrace new ways of working via our Quality Improvement System (QMIS)

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 and community inpatients.

• Providing specialist dietetic treatments e.g. home enteral nutrition (HEN), low-FODMAP diets.

• Delivering a proportion of care using online platforms e.g. One Consultation and MS Teams
• Visiting patients in their own home, where appropriate, to offer HEN and nutritional support advice.
• Coaching, delegating work to, and supporting Dietetic Assistant Practitioners (DAPs) and involvement in student training programme.
• Involvement in departmental research activity and quality improvement project work

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The “must haves” for this role:

• An undergraduate degree or post-grad qualification in Nutrition and Dietetics and registered with Health Care Professionals Council and full BDA membrship

• Ability to demonstrate good experience and knowledge in dietetics including home enteral nutrition, diabetes and nutrition support.

• Aptitude for coaching and supervising junior staff including Dietetic Assistant Practitioners.

• Ability to prioritise workload and work flexibly, travelling to multiple sites if required.

• Ability to work from home with access to Wi-Fi using equipment provided by BHFT

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being 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: 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.

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