Job summary
- Main area
- Community Dietetics East
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 371-CHS1043
- Employer
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Community Dietetics East
- Town
- Windsor
- Salary
- £32,602 - £39,686 per annum, incl of HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/07/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 14/08/2025
Employer heading
Community Dietitian
Band 5
Job overview
East Berkshire Community Dietetic Service based in Windsor has an opportunity to offer a permanent Band 5 Clinical Dietitian role.
The post holder will be covering a varied and diverse community caseload, including outpatient clinics, community inpatient wards, paediatric triage, patients requiring nutritional support or enteral nutrition in nursing homes and their own homes and diabetes education. An interest in developing skills in specialist dietetic areas/treatments such as paediatrics, HEN and FODMAPs would be an advantage to applicants looking for progression to band 6 roles.
We are a mobile working service and offer our patients the choice of face-to-face, virtual and phone appointments as well as home visits. To support this, we have excellent IT access and support staff home-working where appropriate.
As a team we strongly value continuing professional development and offer an employee-led appraisal process and personal development plan. We will support you to develop your ideas for research and audit and offer collaboration and training with our Research & Development and Clinical Effectiveness teams. We also engage in student training and facilitate teaching opportunities.
We are looking for enthusiastic, skilled and committed dietitians to join this forward-thinking team.
Main duties of the job
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Working under the guidance of the Team Lead Dietitian, to provide dietetic care to a varied and diverse caseload of patients in the community as outlined above.
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Travelling to and providing care at various sites including but not limited to community hospitals, patients’ homes, nursing homes, GP practices and some home working.
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Delivering a proportion of care using online platforms e.g. OneConsultation, MS Teams and Webex
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Delivering diabetes education groups
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Supporting our student training programme
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Mentoring Dietetic Assistant Practitioners (DAPs)
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Involvement in departmental research activity and quality improvement project work
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Contribute to service improvement conversations in dedicated meetings
Working for our organisation
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
- Caring for and about you is our top priority
- Committed to providing good quality, safe services
- Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
- Flexible working options to support work-life balance
- 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- Excellent learning and career development opportunities
- ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
- Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
- Free parking across Trust sites
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The “must haves” for this role:
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Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics
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Registered with Health Care Professionals Council and full BDA membership
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Experience of working in acute/community setting as a dietitian or dietetic learner/student.
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Ability to prioritise workload and work flexibly - travelling to multiple sites is often required
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Ability to work from home at time with access to WiFi using equipment provided by BHFT
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.
Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- An undergraduate or a postgraduate degree in Nutrition & Dietetics
- UK registered with Health Professional Council
Previous Experience (as a dietitian or student)
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a variety of dietetic settings/patient groups and partnership working with other HCPs Experience in delivering group education/sessions
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Is able to demonstrate high levels of personal organisation, and the ability and keep track of competing clinical priorities and administrative tasks
- Is able to demonstrate a good understanding of general dietetics
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to work from home at times with access to WiFi (using IT equipment provided by BHFT)
- Ability to travel efficiently to multiple sites and domiciliary visits across Berkshire during working day as required in job plan
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
- Cara Pillitteri-Sheppard
- Job title
- Community Dietitian
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0118 904 3250
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