# Specialist Dietitian

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
- **Town:** Welwyn Garden City
- **Region:** East of England
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Dietitian
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 Per annum, pro rata
- **Contract type:** Fixed term: 9 months (Maternity cover)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-28T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-15T10:51:45.044Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Hertfordshire/Stevenage/Hertfordshire_Community_NHS_Trust/Specialist_Dietitian/Specialist_Dietitian-v8109137
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8109137?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.hct.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Are you an enthusiastic dietitian with an interest in working with adults in the acute setting?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and dynamic dietitian to become part of the Acute dietetic team at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust (HCT),  working at Lister Hospital in East and North Hertfordshire.

This role is 9 months fixed term maternity cover. The successful candidate will work as part of the broader HCT Nutrition and Dietetic Service, which is Hertfordshire wide, delivering an inpatient service to a number of specialties.

*Proposed interview date: 5th August 2026*

### Main duties of the job

The role focuses on inpatient and outpatient work including experience in the following areas:

- ITU
- Enteral and parenteral feeding in specialist areas such as stroke and gastroenterology
- Home enteral feeding

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will work as an independent practitioner using a specialist level of knowledge and skills in the provision of a dietetic service to a caseload of inpatients and outpatients including critical care, stroke and gastroenterology

The role will involve providing support and training for newly qualified / student dietitians.

Please see job description attached to this advert for more detail.

## Person Specification

### Other requirements

**Essential**

- Willingness to uphold the Trust's values
- Eligible to live and work in the UK

### Personal qualities

**Essential**

- Team player
- Flexible and adaptable
- Commitment to equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practice

### Skills and Abilities

**Essential**

- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Good organisational and time management skills
- Ability to use own initiative and work independently
- Good motivational skills
- Ability to reflect and appraise own performance
- Effective problem solving skills
- Ability to interpret clinical policies/guidelines within a highly specialist field

**Desirable**

- Behaviour change / motivational interviewing skills
- Presentation and teaching skills

### Experience and Knowledge

**Essential**

- Evidence of a clinical portfolio in both inpatient and outpatient settings, working with complex patients
- Up to date knowledge of dietetic practice
- IT literate
- Evidence of CPD and commitment to life-long learning
- Experience of supervising or mentoring students
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary health care setting

**Desirable**

- Experience working with parenterally fed patients.

### Qualifications and Training

**Essential**

- BSc Nutrition and Dietetics degree or equivalent
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council
- Attained or working towards a postgraduate qualification in a specialist area or evidence of significant experience in a specialist area.

**Desirable**

- Member of the British Dietetic Association

## Documents

- [hct benefits (pdf, 588.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2511)
- [recruitment guide for candidates (pdf, 303.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2407)
- [job description and person specification (pdf, 544.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10455801)
- [job description supplementary information (pdf, 384.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2599)

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