Job summary
- Main area
- Community Dietetics East
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 371-CHS1011
- Employer
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Community Dietetics East
- Town
- Windsor
- Salary
- £39,205 - £47,084 per annum (incl of HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/05/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 15/05/2025
Employer heading
Specialist Community Dietitian
Band 6
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
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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.
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Providing specialist dietetic treatments e.g. home enteral nutrition (HEN), low-FODMAP diets.
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Delivering a proportion of care using online platforms e.g. One Consultation and MS Teams
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Visiting patients in their own home, where appropriate, to offer HEN and nutritional support advice.
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Coaching, delegating work to, and supporting Dietetic Assistant Practitioners (DAPs) and involvement in student training programme.
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Involvement in departmental research activity and quality improvement project work
Working for our organisation
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
- Caring for and about you is our top priority
- Committed to providing good quality, safe services
- Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
- Flexible working options to support work-life balance
- 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- Excellent learning and career development opportunities
- ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
- Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
- Free parking across Trust sites
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The “must haves” for this role:
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An undergraduate degree or post-grad qualification in Nutrition and Dietetics and registered with Health Care Professionals Council and full BDA membrship
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Ability to demonstrate good experience and knowledge in dietetics including home enteral nutrition, diabetes and nutrition support.
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Aptitude for coaching and supervising junior staff including Dietetic Assistant Practitioners.
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Ability to prioritise workload and work flexibly, travelling to multiple sites if required.
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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
Person specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- An undergraduate or postgraduate degree in Nutrition & Dietetics UK registered with Health Professional Council
Desirable criteria
- Member of the British Dietetic Association
Continuous Professional Development
Desirable criteria
- Attended clinical student Supervisory Skills course
- Attended a clinical/non-clinical Teaching Skills course
- Completed low-FODMAP training
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Strong experience of working in a variety of dietetic settings and partnership working
Desirable criteria
- Experience in carrying out research or clinical audit
- Previous involvement with the pre-registration practice placements for students
- Previous experience using virtual platforms for patient consultations
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Has understanding of confidentiality and data protection requirements I relation to own professional practice
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Joseph Took
- Job title
- Team Leader Nutrition & Dietetics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07727 238884
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