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Job summary
Are you a passionate Dietitian looking to make a meaningful impact in mental health? Join our inpatient mental health team at Parklands Hospital, where you'll have the opportunity to support service users with complex needs, champion recovery-focused care, and help shape the future of dietetic provision within our acute mental health pathway.
Working alongside a skilled and supportive multidisciplinary team including Psychology, Occupational Therapy, Nursing, Psychiatry and other Allied Health Professionals, you'll play a vital role in improving both physical and mental wellbeing. This is an exciting opportunity to develop innovative approaches, influence service development, and be part of a team committed to delivering compassionate, trauma-informed and evidence-based care.
Come and make a difference where nutrition can change lives.
For more information, please contact Joan Co (Physiotherapist and inpatient AHP Therapy Manager) at 02382317715 or email at mailto:joan.co@nhs.net to talk things through or head over for a visit.
Main duties of the job
Provide a specialist dietetic service to adults receiving inpatient mental health care, undertaking comprehensive nutritional assessments and developing evidence-based, person-centred treatment plans for individuals with complex mental and physical health needs. Manage and prioritise a specialist caseload, delivering effective interventions, reviews and discharge planning in line with professional and organisational standards.
Deliver specialist nutritional advice and treatment for service users with malnutrition, obesity, eating disorders, disordered eating, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and medication-related weight changes.
Work autonomously and collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team, contributing specialist expertise to assessments, care planning, risk management, ward rounds and discharge processes. Liaise with carers, community services and external agencies to ensure coordinated care and effective transitions between services.
Deliver training and education to staff, carers and service users, and provide supervision and assessment of Dietetic students. Participate in service development, clinical audit, quality improvement and research activities. Maintain professional registration, undertake continuing professional development, and ensure compliance with safeguarding, information governance, health and safety, infection prevention and equality and diversity requirements.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Details
- Date posted: 22 July 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 6
- Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year Pro rata for part time hours
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Part-time
- Reference number: 348-MNH-12026
- Job locations: Parklands Hospital, Aldermaston Road, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG24 9RH, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Comprehensive post registration experience including evidence of experience in catering, providing training for staff/carer and running group sessions with service users.
- Experience of working with eating disorder cases either in a community setting or in-patient
- Experience of providing supervision to other colleagues/professionals
Desirable
- Experience of working with mental health and learning disability within a clinical settings
- Formal training in communication skills e.g.
- Talking Mats, Motivational Interviewing or
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree/post Graduate Diploma in Nutrition and Dietetics
- HCPC Registration.
Desirable
- Advance Diploma of Dietetics
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development portfolio
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Risk management
- Reflective Practice
- Ability to analyse professional and ethical issues
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
- Ability to organise and respond efficiently to complex information
- Computer literacy
- Ability to build effective working relationships
- Knowledge of mental health legislation and current practice
- Detailed knowledge of the principles of clinical governance and its application
- Ability to work creatively with patients to support engagement
- Ability to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy demonstrating positive communication skills
Desirable
- Practical application of evidenced-based practice
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This advert is for Specialist Dietitian with Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Southampton, South East, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Dietitian role. The advertised salary is £39,959 to £48,117 a year. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 02 Aug 2026.
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