Job summary
- Main area
- Community Dietetics West
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 371-CHS1335
- Employer
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Community Dietetics West - King Edward VII Hospital, St Leonards Road, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 3DP
- Town
- Windsor
- Salary
- £33,677 - £40,996 per annum (incl. of HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/08/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Community Dietitian
Band 5
Job overview
This exciting, varied Band 5 Dietitian post offers the opportunity to develop a broad range of clinical skills across a varied and diverse community caseload. The successful candidate will provide nutritional care in a range of settings, including outpatient clinics, virtual community inpatient wards and patients' own homes. The role also includes delivering group education on weight management and diabetes.
This role would be ideal for a newly qualified Dietitian or for an existing band 5 Dietitian wanting to expand their experience within a supportive and innovative service.
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. IT exampled.
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 looking for enthusiastic, skilled, and committed dietitians to join this forward-thinking team.
Main duties of the job
- Working under the guidance of the Team Lead Dietitian, to provide dietetic care to a varied and diverse caseload of patients in the community as outlined above.
- Travelling to and providing care at various sites including but not limited to community hospitals, patients’ homes, nursing homes, GP practices and some home working.
- Delivering a proportion of care using online platforms e.g. OneConsultation, MS Teams and Webex
- Delivering diabetes and weight management education groups.
- Supporting our Dietetic learners.
- Mentoring Dietetic Assistant Practitioners.
- Involvement in departmental research activity and quality improvement project work.
- Contribute to service improvement conversations in dedicated meetings.
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:
- Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics
- Registered with Health Care Professionals Council and full BDA membership
- Experience of working in acute/community setting as a dietitian or dietetic learner/student
- Ability to prioritise workload and work flexibly - travelling to multiple sites is required
- Ability to work from home at time with access to WiFi using equipment provided by BHFT
- Car driver would be an advantage
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role. We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants. However, it’s important that examples and responses given in your supporting statement genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey.
In addition to explaining how you meet the person specification, you must complete your employment history for at least the last five years. Any experience, skills or responsibilities referenced in your supporting statement should be evidenced within your employment history. Applications that do not include sufficient employment history to support the experience claimed may not be 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: Stonewall Proud Employer, 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.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Tina Howe on 07717432859 or email: [email protected] who’ll be delighted to help.
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 or training
Essential criteria
- An undergraduate or a 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 Supervisory Skills course for student training
- Completed specialist training pre or post registration e.g. FODMAP, paediatrics, behaviour change training
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a variety of dietetic settings/patient groups and partnership working with other HCPs
Desirable criteria
- Experience in delivering group education/sessions
- Experience in carrying out research or clinical audit
- Previous involvement with providing student placements
- Previous experience using virtual platforms for patient consultations
Knowledge, skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Is able to demonstrate high levels of personal organisation, and the ability and keep track of competing clinical priorities and administrative tasks
- Is able to demonstrate a good understanding of general dietetics
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to work from home at times with access to WiFi (using IT equipment provided by BHFT)
- Ability to travel efficiently to multiple sites and domiciliary visits across Berkshire during working day as required in job plan
Desirable criteria
- An ability to work flexibly if required, this could include evenings and weekends
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
- Tina Howe
- Job title
- Dietetic Clinical Lead for Nutrition Support
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07717432859
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