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Dietician
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract
12 months (Fixed term: 12 months)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday (08.30 -16.30 or 09.00 - 1700 ))
Job ref
357-LN-767-25-QIA1158
Employer
United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Lincoln County Hospital
Town
Lincoln
Salary
Dependant on experience
Closing
27/11/2025 23:59

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Community Dietitian - Band 5

NHS AfC: Band 5

We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people.  We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULTH.

We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.

Our values guide everything we do. They are:

  • Patient-centred – Putting patients at the heart of everything we do, listening and responding to their needs and wishes.
  • Safety – Following ULTH and professional guidelines. Speaking up to make sure patients and staff are safe from harm.
  • Excellence – Striving to be the best that we can be. Innovating and learning from others.
  • Compassion – Caring for patients and their loved ones in ways we would want for our friends and family.
  • Respect – Behaving and using language that demonstrates respect and courtesy to others. Zero tolerance to bullying, inequality, prejudice and discrimination.

If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULTH team.

We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients.

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £710 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,600 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Outstanding Care Personally Delivered” – stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.

So, what is in it for you?

  • Flexible working: Depending on the needs of your role, we will consider requests for flexible and/or part-time working for whatever reason you should need it. We recognise flexible working will not look the same for everyone, because it depends on the nature of the role and the needs of the individual.

Types of flexibility could include:

  • Part-time - less than 37.5 hours per week.
  • Off-site/remote working - working from home or other sites for part or all the week.
  • Compressed hours – usually full-time hours but over fewer days or shifts.
  • Staggered hours – having different start and finish times.
  • Set shift patterns – to allow for predictability
  • NHS Pension: A generous and flexible pension scheme with contributions from us as your employer fully protected against inflation and guaranteed by the government
  • Annual Leave: Starting at 27 days a year, rising to 33 days after 10 years plus eight bank holidays (for staff covered by Agenda for Change) For Medical Workforce positions (Consultant and Specialty Doctor), the full-time entitlement commences from 32 days per annum. For all other Medical Workforce positions, the full-time entitlement commences from 27 days per annum.
  • Bank working: The chance to work extra hours at enhanced rates and we will pay you weekly too, ideal if your income needs a quick boost.

In addition, there is more.

  • Family & Childcare: Including on-site nurseries at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital Boston, maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave following a set period of employment.
  • Health & Wellbeing: including counselling, mental health first aid, physiotherapy, eye tests.
  • Learning & Development including Lincolnshire Talent Academy, leadership training, medical education, clinical education, Lincolnshire clinical research
  •  Financial support and benefits including Cycle2Work, car lease scheme, home electronics. Free on-site parking and free tea and coffee and the ability to save and borrow through your salary.
  •  Rewards & Recognition including staff awards, long service awards, retirement awards, examples of excellence and staff lottery.

Enjoy a better quality of life in one of the UK’s most welcoming counties. Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire welcomes everyone. Discover a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for a full time Community Dietician to join the team on a fixed term 12 months bases at Lincoln County Hospital, providing dietetic support in the surrounding area principally in the Louth/Mablethorpe area. The successful applicant will be responsible for providing a specialist, cost efficient and high quality nutrition and dietetic service to support patients requiring nutritional advice and support in community settings.

Main duties of the job

  • To provide this service to clients and carers in community hospitals, community clinics, nursing/care homes and patients’ own homes via face to face clinics, telephone, video consultation and home visits as required.
  • To deliver out-patient clinics covering a range of medical and nutritional conditions, including but not only, nutritional support and diabetes
  • To contribute to evidence-based policy, guidelines and procedures in managing this client group.
  • To reduce the risk of malnutrition in this client group, both by individual consultation and education to carers and staff in community settings.
  • To support appropriate and cost effective use of Oral Nutritional Supplements (ONS) in the community.
  • To see patients with enteral feeding tubes in community settings, under the support and guidance of the Home Enteral Nutrition Team
  • To work with the community diabetes teams to deliver the dietetic input into diabetes clinics and patient education groups in a range of settings.
  • To provide education and support to other health care professionals on diet and diabetes care.

Working for our organisation

Pilgrim Hospital is situated beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.

Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment.  From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.

This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.

The Group is known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Responsibility for patient/client care

  • Responsible for own caseload, including nutritional diagnosis, formulation of treatment plans, giving specialised dietetic advice for patients in the Lincolnshire community and community hospitals

Responsibility for policy/service development

  • Follows local and national policies
  • Develops local standards and policies on relevant areas e.g. nutritional support and diabetes

Responsibility for Financial and Physical Resources

  • Ensure efficient use of resources whilst maintaining safe practice
  •  Ensure cost effectiveness when requesting prescriptions

Responsibility for information resources

  • Records personally generated clinical observations in medical notes, dietetic record cards and nursing care plans
  • To develop information resources, contribute to development of nutritional care pathways and nutritional strategies
  • Contribute to planning, organisation and co-ordination of Trust wide evidence based patient information.

Responsibility for research and development

  • To identify and undertake appropriate clinical audit, in addition to that requested by the Team leader and/or Trust Lead Dietitian.
  •  Participate in multidisciplinary audit

For full details please see the attached job description and person specification. 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • BSc in Dietetics or Post Graduate Diploma in Dietetics (this may be nearing completion)
  • Eligible for HCPC registration
Desirable criteria
  • HCPC registered.
  • Facilitation of Learning training
  • Membership of the BDA
  • Additional training in a relevant area, for example FODMAP, IBS, Coeliac disease

Specific Requirements

Essential criteria
  • Specific Requirements Eligible for DBS clearance Application Form Ability to travel across county to other sites/clinics/undertake home visits Application Form
Desirable criteria
  • Ability to travel across county to other sites/clinics/undertake home visits

Previous Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of providing nutrition support (may be under supervision as a student)
  • Knowledge of the boundaries of own practice and able to appropriately access relevant sources of support
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working in a health care setting
  • Previous experience in working with a team
  • Audit experience

Evidence

Essential criteria
  • Excellent organisational skills, including timekeeping, note taking and ability to prioritise tasks appropriately
  • Presentation skills
  • Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
  • Ability to maintain professionalism and confidentiality at all times
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of the NHS

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Nattalie Lorimer
Job title
Team Lead Home Enteral Nutrition Dietitian
Email address
[email protected]
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