# Specialist Community Learning Disabilities Dietitian

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East London NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Archived / closed
- **Employer:** East London NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** London
- **Region:** London
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Dietitian
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £55,524 - £62,652 per annum pro rata Inc HCAs
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-02T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-20T00:01:52.633Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Stratford_London/East_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Dietitian/Dietitian-v8127587
- **Employer website:** https://www.elft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are seeking an experienced, motivated, and dynamic Band 7 Dietitian to provide high-quality specialised dietetic support to adults with learning disabilities, as well as their families and caregivers, in Tower Hamlets.

This position will partially cover the clinical workload of our current full-time Band 7 Dietitian, whose hours are being reduced to 0.6 WTE. The successful candidate will work closely with the existing Band 7 Dietitian and the wider multidisciplinary team (MDT) to deliver timely, evidence-based nutritional care to a complex and diverse caseload.

This is a fixed-term role for three years (0.4 WTE) with the potential for flexible working arrangements.

### Main duties of the job

- Manage a specialist caseload of adults with learning disabilities requiring dietetic intervention, including those with obesity, malnutrition risk, swallowing difficulties, disordered eating or complex comorbidities.
- Provide tailored dietetic advice to service users, families, carers, and care providers in a range of settings (home visits, supported living, residential and nursing placements, day services).
- Develop and deliver accessible healthy eating resources and training in collaboration with the MDT.
- Contribute to MDT meetings, joint care planning, and safeguarding processes.
- Promote health equality and facilitate access to mainstream dietetic services where appropriate.
- Record and evaluate interventions using evidence-based outcome measures.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

(Condensed from full job description for advert – full JD will be attached)

- Provide comprehensive nutritional assessment and treatment planning, including anthropometric, biochemical, clinical and dietary analysis.
- Deliver specialist weight management, nutrition support, dysphagia-related dietary modification, and interventions for complex eating behaviours.
- Liaise effectively with GPs, acute trusts, community teams and other health and social care providers.
- Lead the development of easy-read resources and culturally appropriate dietary materials.
- Provide education and training for carers, families, and professionals on diet and nutrition for people with learning disabilities.
- Participate in service development, audit, and quality improvement projects.
- Uphold HCPC and BDA professional standards, Trust policies, safeguarding requirements, and equality and diversity principles.

## Person Specification

### Other

**Essential**

- Is able to demonstrate a good understanding of general dietetics
- Can demonstrate excellent organisational and time management skills
- Is able to prioritise workload and is flexible in approach
- Is able to work both independently and as part of a team
- Can demonstrate different approaches to communicating, both as individuals and in groups

### Experience

**Essential**

- Post graduate training Dietetics

**Desirable**

- Post registration training or experience in psychological approaches to patient care i.e. CBT

### Knowledge and Skills

**Essential**

- Minimum 3 years’ experience as a Dietitian

**Desirable**

- Experience of working within the community setting
- Relevant broad dietetic experience as a junior dietitian across a range of clinical areas
- Experience in the provision oral nutrition support (i.e. fortification, sip feeds)
- Experience in learning disability dietetics - understanding of individual needs, communication needs, co morbidities

### Education/ Qualification/ Training

**Essential**

- A four-year undergraduate first or a two year post graduate degree in Nutrition & Dietetics
- UK registered with Health Professional Council
- Member of the British Dietetic Association

## Documents

- [elft strategy (pdf, 153.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1708)
- [job description (pdf, 176.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10424483)
- [elft at a glance (pdf, 151.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1110)
- [person specification (pdf, 176.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10424484)
- [elft staff benefits leaflet (pdf, 920.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1111)
- [trust demographic information (pdf, 1.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1844)

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