Job summary
- Main area
- Diabetes Dietetian
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: Monday to Friday 08.30-16.30
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 825-8053808-OPS
- Employer
- Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Mount McKinley Shrewsbury
- Town
- Shrewsbury
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 per annum/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/11/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Community Diabetes Dietician
NHS AfC: Band 6
We recognise that applicants may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to help build their application. However, all information provided must be an accurate reflection of your skills, knowledge, qualifications and experience. Candidates should be prepared to discuss and evidence the content of their application during the recruitment process.
Our Poppy’s Promise Commitment
We believe that compassionate care sits at the heart of everything we do. Every member of our team — clinical or non-clinical — plays a vital role in ensuring that patients, families, and colleagues are treated with dignity, empathy, and respect at all times.
We expect all staff to demonstrate compassion not only through their words, but through their actions: by listening attentively, communicating clearly and kindly, and recognising individual needs, feelings, and circumstances of those in our care.
Effective communication is central to safe and high-quality healthcare. We value colleagues who take the time to understand others, explain information in a meaningful way, and respond to concerns with patience and understanding.
By joining our team, you are committing to uphold these values — ensuring that every patient feels heard, respected, and valued, and that compassion is embedded in every interaction, every day.
Job overview
Delivery of a comprehensive, skilled and evidence-based
Diabetes service to meet the needs of the population. Maintain
a clinical caseload within your specialist field. Continuing
responsibility for assessment of health needs and development
and evaluation of standards of care.
Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.
Main duties of the job
To establish and provide a diabetes nutrition support service to patients with diabetes independently and in partnership with diabetes specialist nurses. You will manage a diabetes caseload with the community diabetes specialist service with varying degrees of nutritional complexity with supervision from diabetes specialist dietician and exercising a large degree of autonomy. You will be responsible for using current evidence and knowledge to propose and evaluate alternative approaches to dietetic practice in community diabetes aiming to improve outcomes within available resources. This will support Government policy by developing new ways of working. You will be an integral member of
the community diabetes service and assist with the delivery of diabetes structured education
programme XPERT. Most of the job role will be working with adults who have Type 2 diabetes, but
also some involvement with adults with Type 1 diabetes. To provide education and training to the
wider multidisciplinary team in matters concerning the nutritional management of diabetes. To participate in audit/evaluation for adult community diabetes and other projects as required by the
XPERT Programme, Community Health Trust and Community Diabetes Clinical Lead and Band 7
Dietician.
Working for our organisation
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.
Person specification
Training and Qualifactions
Essential criteria
- Registered Dietitian with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
- BSc or postgraduate qualification in Nutrition and Dietetics, or equivalent qualification leading to registration.
- Specialist knowledge of diabetes dietetics across a range of procedures, underpinned by theory and acquired through relevant postgraduate study or equivalent specialist training and experience.
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to diabetes.
- Teaching qualification or equivalent teaching and training experience.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post-registration experience in diabetes dietetics, including management of adults with complex needs and co-existing conditions.
- Experience of autonomously assessing and treating an own specialist caseload and maintaining associated records.
- Experience of multidisciplinary working across organisational or professional boundaries.
- Experience of supervising or supporting students, assistants or less experienced colleagues.
- Experience of delivering specialist education or training to patients, carers and health or care staff.
- Experience of audit, service evaluation, research activity and contributing to policy, pathway or service improvement.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- SKILLS Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive information and communicate effectively where there are barriers to understanding.
- Highly developed motivational, empathic, reassurance, counselling and behaviour-change skills.
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex clinical, biochemical, dietary and glucose-monitoring information and compare a range of treatment options.
- Ability to provide highly specialised dietetic advice for patients with complex conditions.
- Ability to plan, prioritise and adjust an own specialist caseload and ongoing activities.
- Ability to work autonomously within broad occupational policies, professional standards, clinical guidance and Trust procedures.
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to meet travel requirements of the post
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Julia Morgan-Williams
- Job title
- Adult Diabetes Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01743277693
- Additional information
Aaron Hutchinson Diabetes Specialist Dietitian [email protected]
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