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Dietitian
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Fixed term: 10 months (Maternity leave cover)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Contracted hours to be delivered over 5 days)
Job ref
387-D&T6051-LH
Employer
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Weston General Hospital
Town
Weston
Salary
£39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
03/09/2026 23:59

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Specialist Dietitian

Band 6

North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) have merged as of 1st July 2026 to become Bristol NHS Foundation Trust. This will create an exciting future that brings together the best of both organisations. As a single, strong and sustainable organisation, we will not only be able to deliver better outcomes for our patients and fairer care for our population, but it will also provide greater opportunities for our people.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust recognise the value of a healthy work-life balance. When applying, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate flexible working, so your work life fits around your home life.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within the Trust.

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Job overview

This vacancy is for a  Specialist Dietitian, maternity leave cover. The post is based at our Weston General Hospital, alongside other Dietitians & Dietetic Support Workers delivering high quality nutritional care. The role will focus on acute inpatient beds & outpatients, across a number of pathways but primarily within specialist areas of ICU and medical inpatient wards. Input to surgical wards is also required, particularly when patients initially step down from ICU. 

You will require to demonstrate core skills in oral, enteral and parenteral nutrition support along with behaviour change strategies.

Work will be augmented with wider service development, education and student training. 

All members of the team work one Bank Holiday a year.

Main duties of the job

The post will provide expert nutritional care across a range of pathways, notably critical care & medicine. 

The role works closely with a wide range of professionals within the MDT

Ensure effective communication at all levels of health care professionals regarding the nutritional care of individual patients.

Impart information to patients in situations which could be distressing / emotional for the patient, therefore require use of holistic skills.

Use negotiation skills to motivate and negotiate dietary change this will require using a variety of evaluation strategies and adapting communication techniques if necessary.

Educate, support and direct patients by advising on therapeutic dietary regimens which may involve significant and continuous lifestyle changes. 

Translate nutritional concepts into practical everyday terms for patients, staff and professional colleagues of all levels.

As a key member of the multi-professional team, provide expert dietetic advice at case conferences, care and discharge planning meetings.

Liaise with partners including clinical MDTs, pharmacy, catering and the community to ensure continuity of care across service providers.

Working for our organisation

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston. 

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. 

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria
  • • Q1 HCPC Registration
  • • Q2 Evidence of continuing professional development
  • • Q3 Degree/Post Graduate qualification in nutrition or dietetics
  • • Q4 Clinical Supervisory Skills (Basic)
Desirable criteria
  • • Q5 BDA Membership
  • • Q6 PEN Group Clinical Update Course and/or Behaviour Change Course

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria
  • • E1 Proven experience in: - Enteral Nutrition Support - Chronic Disease Management - Nutrition support in acute illness
  • • E2 Working as part of a multi-professional Team
  • • E3 Student Training
  • • E5 Teaching Experience
Desirable criteria
  • • E4 Audit Experience
  • • E6 Experience of supervision of junior staff
  • E7 Experience of writing protocols & guidelines
  • • E8 Experience of working in the community
  • • E9 Experience of Home Enteral Nutrition

Skills and abilities

Essential criteria
  • • S1 Good communication skills at all levels - Oral - Written - Interpersona
  • • S2 Good organisational skills
  • • S4 Teaching/presentation skills in a variety of settings & to professional groups/ grades
  • • S5 Computer skills & use of dietary analysis programmes
  • • S6 Advanced clinical reasoning
  • • S7 Behaviour & motivational interviewing skills
  • • S8 Able to maintain effective working relationships across different professions
  • • S9 Insight & sensitivity
  • • S11 Team player & able to maintain effective working relationships
  • • S12 Ability to process highly complex information or situations
  • • S13 Ability to work under own initiative
  • • S14 Ability to deal with challenging behaviours of patients, carers & students
  • • S3 Time Management
Desirable criteria
  • • S10 Active/committee member of BDA Specialist Interest Group
  • • S15 Access to transport in order to deliver community working

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Helen Wilmot
Job title
Food Policy & Stroke Dietitian
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
019346470315412
Additional information

Alternatively contact - Deone van Rooyen, Senior Surgical & Oncology Dietitian, 01934647031 ext 3554

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