Job summary
- Main area
- Dietitian
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- 6 months (fixed term up to 0.6 wte)
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 318-26-T0406
- Employer
- Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cheltenham General Hospital
- Town
- Cheltenham
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 (pa, pro rata if part time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Out-patient Dietitian, Band 6
Band 6
At Gloucestershire Hospitals, our people are at the heart of everything we do. As the county’s largest employer, we are proud to provide high-quality acute, elective, and specialist services to more than 650,000 people across our county. Our care is delivered across Gloucestershire Royal, Cheltenham General and Stroud Maternity Hospital.
With over 9,000 employees representing more than 95 nationalities, bringing together a mix of cultures and experiences to the care that we deliver. Whether you’re beginning your NHS journey or looking to take the next step in your career, this is an exciting time to join us. We’re investing heavily in innovation, research, and transformation, with more than 100 active clinical studies and major developments underway across our hospitals.
We take pride in working as one team, driven by a shared ambition to grow, develop, and continually improve. Every contribution is valued and by combining our collective strengths, we support not only our diverse communities but one another. You can expect a warm, supportive culture and colleagues who are passionate about teamwork, professional development and delivering exceptional care. We offer structured development programmes, mentoring and leadership opportunities to help you progress in your career.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels they belong. By joining our Trust, you will benefit from a comprehensive package that includes flexible working opportunities, generous annual leave, the NHS pension scheme, competitive bank rates, local discounts, access to on-site nurseries, reduced public transport costs, reward and recognition schemes and a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
Be part of Gloucestershire Hospitals, explore your future with us today.
Job overview
We are seeking a motivated and skilled dietitian with experience and skills in all aspects of delivering adult general outpatients including face to face and virtual clinics. Previous experience in this area is essential. This may also involve working with patients experiencing cancer so a knowledge of cancer treatments, related side effects and palliative care, along with NHS experience would be highly desirable.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for delivering high-quality, patient-centred nutritional care and education to adults with complex needs in an out-patient setting,
The role will include:
- Planning, delivering, and monitoring individualised nutrition support and dietary treatments to outpatients
- Working collaboratively with Dietetic staff members and wider primary and secondary care based multidisciplinary team
- Liaising effectively with multidisciplinary care professionals at all levels
- Prioritising a dynamic workload, and demonstrating flexibility and resourcefulness in navigating outpatient workloads
- Contributing to service improvement and audit activity
- Contributing to pre-registration clinical training and teaching
Strong interpersonal and communication skills are essential, including observation, active listening, and the ability to communicate complex information clearly and compassionately.
You will be skilled at working autonomously but work well in a team and be able to creatively meet the challenges of working remotely. You will be involved in defined nutrition projects and quality improvement initiatives related to outpatient services.
Working for our organisation
We are a large, friendly department based on 2 sites; Cheltenham General Hospital (CGH) & Gloucestershire Royal Hospital (GRH). There is free bus travel between these sites for Trust staff.
The Department of Dietetics is a dynamic and forward-thinking department operating across both hospital sites, structured into three key portfolios. These include Nutrition and Dietetics, encompassing acute services, renal, oncology, nutrition support, education, and the adult diabetes service; the Home Enteral Feeding Service, providing comprehensive care for adult and paediatric patients requiring enteral feeding across the county; and the Specialist Weight Management Service, delivering a specialist Tier 3 weight management programme.
The Department has an ambitious and evolving vision, striving to become a recognised centre of excellence for dietetics both regionally and nationally. Staff are actively encouraged and supported to engage in service evaluation, research, innovation, and teaching, ensuring continuous development and the highest standards of patient care. Opportunities for flexible working and sharing of this role will be welcomed and considered
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See the full job description for more details — and do please get in touch for an informal chat if you would like to know more about this exciting opportunity
Person specification
Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Degree/Diploma in Dietetics
- Registered with HCPC
- Evidence of successful clinical experience in being autonomous practitioner and able to act on own initiative
- Experience of running face to face and virtual outpatient services
- Experienced in all aspects of adult general clinc including nutritional support and relevant dietary treatment
- Experience of effectively maintain working relationship within a team
- Experience of nutrition screening tools and nutrition risk scoring e.g. MUST and nutritional supplements
- Implement evidence- based practice.
- Experienced all aspects of adult nutrition support, sip feeds and enteral feeds
- Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening, caring and empathy skills and can relate well to staff and patients.
- Evidence of excellent verbal and written communication skills including active listening skills.
- Ability to assess individuals with complex medical problems and to plan dietetic care based on clinical evidenced based practice and disseminate this to other health care professionals
- Ability to problem solve, be self motivated and desire to deliver a high quality service.
- To demonstrate Professional attitude to routine/non-routine tasks. and Trust required behaviours in working towards Individual, Department, Divisional and Trust Objectives/Goals
- Ability to deliver education sessions to patients, colleague and healthcare staff
- Prioritisation, planning and organisational and time management skills with ability to meet deadlines
- Evidence of Continued CPD, including evidence of reflective practice, service evaluation and utilisation of best practice.
- Excellent computer literacy skills: email, data input, internet, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and knowledge of patient management systems
- Ability to work outside normal working hours, including occasional evenings if the service requires.
- Ability to recognise own professional limitations and when to seek advice from senior colleagues.
- An ability to interact with people with mental health problems and / or disabilities
- Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals
- To maintain Professional appearance and behaviours in the workplace
Desirable criteria
- Completed or working towards completion of relevant post-graduate study and experience of working at a senior level in this specialist area.
- Member of the British Dietetic Association
- Attendance on relevant accredited courses
- The ability to manage change and conflict to ensure resolutions with positive outcomes
- Experience in implementing clinical governance
- The ability to inspire, influence, persuade and negotiate.
- Ability to identify personal development needs
- Experience of handling difficult & sensitive situations well
- Experience of working in the NHS
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
- Anna Hardiman
- Job title
- Lead Outpatient Dietitian
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 422 3460
- Additional information
Fiona Brown Lead Dietitian CGH
[email protected] 0300 422 5506
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