Job summary
- Main area
- 317 Nutrition Hospital Adults
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Job ref
- 317-2025-48-05-DR
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trustwide
- Town
- 317 Trustwide
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/12/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 06/01/2026
Employer heading
Specialist Dietitian
Band 6
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.
With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.
As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our friendly adult acute dietetic team based at the Royal Victoria Infirmary Hospital and the Freeman hospital. We are looking for a well organised and compassionate individual to join our team as a stroke specialist dietitian. The successful candidate will support the dietetic provision to the hyper acute stroke wards at the RVI as well as the stroke rehab unit at the Freeman Hospital. This role offers the opportunity of a clinical caseload that has a great mix of hyperacute patients as well as those longer-term patients requiring rehabilitation. The successful candidate will sit within a well-established stroke MDT.
- Interview Date: 6th January 2026
- 37 hours 30 minutes/week (part time will be considered)
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be required to
- Carry out nutritional assessments on patients who have had a stroke. Provide detailed and evidence based plans including enteral feeding as well as oral nutrition support
- Supporting patients during the acute phase of their stroke care and rehabilitation, enabling a smooth transition into the community
- Work closely with the dietetic and AHP support workers to organise the division of tasks and provide peer support
- Work effectively as part of the wider MDTs
- Take a leading role in student training and preceptorship
- Contribute to research and audit within specialist areas
- This post will be working across 2 sites. Therefore good organizational and time management skills are essential for this role
You should be enthusiastic and self-motivated and will:
- Have post-registration experience in general dietetics and be able to evidence the management of a busy caseload
- Have undertaken specialist training in stroke or have experience of working with stroke patients
- Be able to demonstrate ongoing CPD and have evidence of developing practice.
- Be able to support colleagues and take responsibility for the clinical supervision of junior staff and students.
- Have excellent communication and be able to maintain good relationships with colleagues and wider MDT
Working for our organisation
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Newcastle Nutrition adult dietetic team consists of 45 dietitians working between the RVI and Freeman hospitals. The team also have excellent links with the community services within Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, facilitating CPD opportunities, access to specialist guidance and support with discharge queries.
We offer ongoing training and support with the opportunity to experience dietetics in many different specialist areas through annual leave and sickness cover as well as the means to develop leadership skills through exposure to student training and preceptorship. The Trust places significant value on its dietetic services in the provision of first-class patient care, and the dietetic service enjoys a high profile with excellent multidisciplinary involvement.
Job Purpose
- Delivers a comprehensive and effective clinical nutrition and dietetic service in acute hospital services in the specialist area/s or in the community.
- Provides specialist dietetic assessment, diagnosis, treatment, monitoring and management in the clinical setting and in one or more sub-speciality areas. This may include supplementary prescribing.
- Provides specialist dietetic assessment, treatment, monitoring and management in one or more speciality areas of dietetics
- Acts as a source of expertise in nutrition support and dietetics to patients, consultants and other health care professionals
- Contributes to designing, planning and implementing research and audit and contributes to publishing results, working in interdisciplinary teams or with other health professionals.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria
- Health and Care Professions Council Registered Dietitian
- Degree in Dietetics or Science/Nutrition Degree plus Post-graduate Diploma in Dietetics
- Evidence of specialist training through short courses or a validated qualification in one of more specialist areas of dietetics e.g. nutrition support, paediatrics, home enteral feeding, supplementary Prescriber (Non-medical prescribing course V300)
- UK Valid Driving Licence.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Post registration employment in general clinical dietetics.
- Evidence of participation in and contribution to audits
- Evidence in CPD
Desirable criteria
- Basic training in counselling and/or motivational interviewing or cognitive behavioural therapy.
- Basic Food Hygiene.
- Experience in student training
- Experience of working with wider multidisciplinary team towards a shared purpose/goal
- Proficient use of Electronic Patient Records
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Clinical Supervisory Skills Course and/or Teaching Certificate.
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office applications
- Good interpersonal skills
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
- Alison Gurney
- Job title
- Senior Specialist Dietitians
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 282 4812
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