Job summary
- Main area
- Dietitian
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-CED055
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Pudding Lane
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £32,073 - £39,043 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/09/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 15/09/2026
Employer heading
Dietitian
Band 5
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join an award-winning Eating Disorders Service and become part of a strong clinical dietetic team. You will work closely with our apprentice dietitian and dietetic assistant, while receiving excellent support from our Senior Dietetic Team.
The successful candidate will manage a varied, specialist caseload across both community and inpatient mental health settings and will be supported to develop competencies in enteral feeding and Eating Disorder clinical specialities.
It would suit either a Band 5 Dietitian looking to develop specialist skills or a newly qualified dietitian seeking support from a highly skilled and experienced team .
Your career development and wellbeing are very important to us. We are a friendly and supportive team, committed to helping you reach your full potential. The Trust offers a comprehensive preceptorship programme for newly qualified Band 5 dietitians, providing peer support alongside dedicated preceptors and clinical supervisors.
Why join us ? - "I had the opportunity to support service users in improving their health and nutritional wellbeing, while working with a supportive team. Regular supervision and guidance was provided which helped me to develop my clinical skills and I was given opportunity to enhance my knowledge and skills through ongoing CPD, training, and professional development opportunities. This enabled me to refine my skills and excel in my role as a dietitian" - Former employee.
Main duties of the job
The role includes working both in the Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) pathway and a general adolescent inpatient unit.
You will undertake comprehensive nutritional assessments to develop individualised nutrition care plans and work autononmously to review and monitor risk and progress.
You will contribute to audit and quality improvement initiatives, as well as research projects, to enhance both your own practice and that of the wider clinical team. You will also be involved in reviewing and developing patient information resources.
You will support the delivery of family-based interventions for children and young people, working collaboratively with families and the wider multidisciplinary team.
In addition, you will provide nutritional support for patients requiring enteral feeding and participate in meal support and meal modelling within the inpatient setting.
Working for our organisation
We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.
Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.
Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s working well together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Provide high-quality, individualised nutrition and dietetic assessments and treatment.
- Manage an autonomous caseload and defined service area, seeking senior support when required.
- Organise and prioritise workload according to patient and service needs.
- Manage clinical risk, consent, confidentiality, records and activity data in line with professional and Trust requirements.
- Maintain professional competence through CPD and reflective practice.
- Work within relevant Trust, national and professional guidelines and legal frameworks.
- Contribute to audit, research, service development and evidence-based practice.
- Review and produce nutrition and dietetic resources.
- Plan and deliver training and education sessions.
- Work collaboratively as an integrated member of the Nutrition and Dietetic Service.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- BSc Nutrition & Dietetics
- HCPC registered
Desirable criteria
- Relevant Clinical Experience
- To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area
Experience
Essential criteria
- pre registration experience in relevant clinical setting
Desirable criteria
- Experience in mental health
communication
Essential criteria
- To have a wide range of knowledge in approaches to communicating and managing patient care.
Desirable criteria
- To be able to give demonstrate examples and align with KMMH values
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
- Emma Woolston
- Job title
- Integrative Feeding and Dietetic Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 300 1980
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