Job summary
- Main area
- Dietitian
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- 3 months (fixed term until 31/12/2025)
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 318-25-T0619
- Employer
- Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cheltenham General Hospital
- Town
- Cheltenham
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 (pro rata if part time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Out-patient Dietitian, Band 6
NHS AfC: Band 6
At Gloucestershire Hospitals, our people are at the heart of everything we do. As the largest employer in the county, we’re proud to provide outstanding acute, elective, and specialist services to over 650,000 people across our county. Whether you’re just beginning your NHS journey or taking the next step in your career, this is an exciting time to join us. We’re investing in innovation, research, and transformation, with over 100 active clinical studies and major developments underway across our two district hospitals.
You can expect a welcoming and supportive culture and you’ll be supported by passionate colleagues who care deeply about teamwork, development, and delivering exceptional care. We offer structured development programmes, mentoring, and leadership opportunities to help you grow in your career. Gloucestershire has the perfect mix of culture, countryside, and community. With excellent schools, transport links, and access to award-winning green spaces, it’s a great place to live and work.
We value the diversity of our workforce and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels they belong.
Be part of Gloucestershire Hospitals, explore your future with us today.
Job overview
We are seeking a motivated and skilled dietitian with experience and skilled in all aspects of delivering adult general outpatients including nutritional support. cancer care etc. Previous NHS experience in this area and knowledge of palliative care, cancer treatments, related side effects and appropriate dietary treatment are essential.
Additional contract details: Fixed term until 31/12/2025
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for delivering high-quality, patient-centred nutritional care and education to adults with complex needs in an out-patient setting,
The role will include:
- Planning, delivering, and monitoring individualised nutrition support and dietary treatments to outpatients
- Working collaboratively with Dietetic staff members and wider primary and secondary care based multidisciplinary team
- Liaising effectively with professionals at all levels
- Prioritising a dynamic workload, and demonstrating flexibility and resourcefulness in navigating outpatient workloads
- Contributing to service improvement and audit activity
- Contributing to pre-registration clinical training and teaching
Strong interpersonal and communication skills are essential, including observation, active listening, and the ability to communicate complex information clearly and compassionately.
You will be skilled at working autonomously but work well in a team and be able to creatively meet the challenges of working remotely. You will be involved in defined nutrition projects and quality improvement initiatives related to outpatient services.
Working for our organisation
We are a large, friendly department based on 2 sites; Cheltenham General Hospital (CGH) & Gloucestershire Royal Hospital (GRH). There is free bus travel between these sites for Trust staff.
The Department of Dietetics is a dynamic and forward-thinking department operating across both hospital sites, structured into three key portfolios. These include Nutrition and Dietetics, encompassing acute services, renal, oncology, nutrition support, education, and the adult diabetes service; the Home Enteral Feeding Service, providing comprehensive care for adult and paediatric patients requiring enteral feeding across the county; and the Specialist Weight Management Service, delivering a specialist Tier 3 weight management programme.
The Department has an ambitious and evolving vision, striving to become a recognised centre of excellence for dietetics both regionally and nationally. Staff are actively encouraged and supported to engage in service evaluation, research, innovation, and teaching, ensuring continuous development and the highest standards of patient care.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See the full job description for more details — and do please get in touch for an informal chat if you would like to know more about this exciting opportunity
Additional Contact Details
June Beharry (Lead Dietitian GRH)
0300 422 5506
Person specification
Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Degree/Diploma in Dietetics
- Registered with HCPC
- Completed or working towards completion of relevant post-graduate study and experience of working at a senior level in this specialist area.
- Evidence of successful clinical experience in NHS being autonomous practitioner and able to act on own initiative
- Experience of running face to face outpatient services
- Experienced in all aspects of adult general clinc including nutritional support and cancer care, related conditions and treatments
- Experience of effectively maintain working relationship within a team
- Experience of nutrition screening tools and nutrition risk scoring e.g. MUST and nutritional supplements
- Implement evidence- based practice.
- Experience in implementing clinical governance
- Experienced within the NHS on all aspects of adult nutrition support, sip feeds and enteral feeds
- Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening, caring and empathy skills and can relate well to staff and patients.
- Evidence of excellent verbal and written communication skills including active listening skills.
- Ability to assess individuals with complex medical problems and to plan their dietetic care
- Ability to make decision regarding change of practice based on clinical evidence and to disseminate same to other health professionals.
- Able to implement research evidence based practice and apply to practice for continuous service improvement
- Ability to problem solve, be self motivated and desire to deliver a high quality service.
- To demonstrate Trust required behaviours in working towards Individual, Department, Divisional and Trust Objectives/Goals
- Ability to deliver education sessions to patients, colleague and healthcare staff
- Prioritisation, planning and organisational and time management skills with ability to meet deadlines
- Evidence of Continued CPD, including evidence of reflective practice, service evaluation and utilisation of best practice.
- Excellent computer literacy skills: email, data input, internet, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and knowledge of patient management systems
- Ability to work outside normal working hours, including occasional evenings if the service requires.
- Ability to recognise own professional limitations and when to seek advice from senior colleagues.
- An ability to interact with people with mental health problems and / or disabilities
- Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals
- Professional attitude to routine/non-routine tasks.
- To maintain Professional appearance and behaviours in the workplace
Desirable criteria
- Completed or working towards completion of relevant post-graduate study and experience of working at a senior level in this specialist area.
- Member of the British Dietetic Association
- Attendance on relevant accredited courses
- The ability to manage change and conflict to ensure resolutions with positive outcomes
- Experience in implementing clinical governance
- The ability to inspire, influence, persuade and negotiate.
- Ability to identify personal development needs
- Experience of handling difficult & sensitive situations well
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Anna Hardiman
- Job title
- Lead Outpatient Dietitian
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 422 3460
- Additional information
June Beharry Lead Dietitian GRH
[email protected] 0300 422 5506
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