# Specialist Stroke Dietitian

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Trust Headquarters, St Mary's Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Dietitian
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time - 34.8 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-11-04T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-20T08:10:32.461Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Northamptonshire/Northampton/Northamptonshire_Healthcare_NHS_Foundation_Trust/dietetics/dietetics-v8344737
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8344737?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.nhft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The stroke unit consists of 2 inpatient wards at NGH, a hyperacute ward and a rehabilitation ward. The post involves providing a service to both wards (52 beds in total) and you will have support from the other dietitian working in stroke care and the wider supportive and friendly MDT.

### Main duties of the job

- Undertaking comprehensive assessment of patients with complex presentations and multipathologies within inpatient and outpatient settings for patients referred by the stroke team.
- Formulating individual management and treatment plans using advanced clinical reasoning and developing comprehensive discharge plans including advice on appropriate ACBS prescribable enteral feeds and supplements to be used.
- Working collaboratively with the wider multi- disciplinary health care team to ensure delivery of coordinated care and to provide specialist advice and attend case conferences, network meetings as appropriate.
- Evaluating patients’ progress, measuring outcomes and contribute to and implement service improvement work to provide safe patient care and manage risk
- Using a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients to complete dietetic assessments and implement treatment plans. This will include using listening skills and behaviour change skills to motivate patients to change their lifestyle behaviours and communication in a way to meet inclusion and diversity needs
- Providing advice and training to patients, carers, colleagues and other healthcare professionals to promote an understanding of the aims of dietetic treatment to ensure a consistent approach to patient care.
- Organising and prioritisation of own workload and managing clinical risk within caseload

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The role involves:

. Supporting training for dietetic learners and providing practice education experience

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

## Person Specification

### knowledge

**Essential**

- range of clinical dieteitc experience, especially knowledge of managing malnutrition with inpatients and UK healthcare systems

### communication

**Essential**

- demonstratesd a range of communication skills and ability to provide patient centered care

### professional skills

**Essential**

- demonstrates a wide range of professional skills of working in healthcare

## Documents

- [advert (pdf, 72.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10669372)
- [job description (pdf, 264.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10669371)
- [your guide to nhft (pdf, 1.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3047)

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