Job summary
- Main area
- Nutrition Support Dietitian
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 824-NORTH-7882972
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Edgware Community Hospital
- Town
- Edgware
- Salary
- £45,953 - £54,254 per annum, inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Dietitian - Home Enteral Feeding / Nutrition Support
Band 6
Welcome to Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH)
At CLCH, we proudly serve as a beacon of compassionate community healthcare across 14 vibrant London boroughs — Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster, Hillingdon, Sutton, and Kingston — as well as Hertfordshire. We bring care closer to home, embracing the rich diversity of these communities with dedication and heart.
Recognised as a Good provider by the Care Quality Commission and celebrated among the top NHS employers, we are united by a shared passion: empowering our community health professionals to deliver care that truly makes a difference.
We are deeply committed to fostering an environment where every member of our team feels respected, valued, and inspired—a place where fairness, kindness, and inclusion blossom. Our culture is rooted in the principles of the NHS People Plan, Our NHS People Promise, and our own strategic Equality values and objectives, guiding us to create a truly supportive and inclusive workplace.
Together, we build a caring community where the warmth we show one another shines through in every life we touch.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Dietitian to join our friendly and progressive community team.
The successful applicant will have gained skills and experience across a range of clinical dietetic specialities in either an acute or community setting in order to specialise further in oral nutritional support and home enteral tube feeding.
The Nutrition Support Service covers clinical caseloads for malnutrition / appropriate prescribing, adult home enteral tube feeding, and complex obesity. This role requires some face to face domiciliary and nursing home visits in the borough of Barnet which makes a car driver required.
We also provide clinics which may be face to face or virtual, and this may allow some home working. The team meets fortnightly to support communication, team building and staff well-being.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will mainly support patients in the community who require tube feeding. As well as a caseload of those at risk of malnutrition, requiring liaising with patients, relatives and carers around a food-based approach and the appropriate prescribing of oral nutritional supplements in line with our pathway and the North Central London (NCL) formulary.
There may also be scope for you to gain experience in supporting patients living with obesity. You will regularly communicate with GP practices, hospital dietitians, pharmacists and other community based teams such as nursing, One Care Home and Frailty MDT’s, and be able to contribute to various networks across CLCH and NCL.
You will gain further experience in supervising students, and management of dietetic assistants and junior staff. CLCH provides excellent opportunities for your own professional growth through Dietetic and AHP networks, clinical training courses and leadership development programmes.
Working for our organisation
We are proud to be one of the largest community healthcare providers in the country, with more than 4,500 colleagues caring for over four million people across London and Hertfordshire. Every day, our teams bring their skill, compassion, and determination to the people who depend on us.
What inspires us is at the heart of who we are: when we work together, we can help people move forward in ways that truly matter. Our teams support children as they take their first steps in life, and they stand beside adults as they rebuild strength, confidence, and independence. From newborn health visiting to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation, and palliative care, we are there for people through some of life’s most important moments.
Joining Central London Community Healthcare means becoming part of a community that lifts each other up. It means working in an organisation that values compassion, welcomes new ideas, and believes in the potential of every colleague. Your development matters here. Your wellbeing matters. Your voice helps shape the future of the care we provide.
We offer a competitive employment package because the work you do matters. At Central London Community Healthcare, you will join an inclusive organisation that invests in its people, supports development, and helps you thrive while delivering high-quality care.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Successful applicants will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Trust’s values & the behaviours aligned to those values - Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment, alongside fulfilling the duties detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Please note interviews will be held face to face.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Undergraduate Degree / Post Grad Diploma in Dietetics
- Must have current UK HCPC registration
- Evidence of other post registration education and training in nutrition support
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of other post registration education and training in enteral tube feeding
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post-registration and previous experience in a range of clinical areas such as nutrition support, home enteral feeding, obesity, diabetes, oncology, gastroenterology.
- Post-registration and previous experience in treating patients for malnutrition, with providing food fortification advice, and with appropriate prescribing of nutritional supplements
- Post-registration and previous community experience in a variety of settings such as Nursing and Residential Homes, community clinics, domiciliary visits
- Experience in training/teaching other healthcare professionals
- Experience in conducting audits and / or research
- Experience in using behaviour change techniques
- Experience in contributing to policy, procedures, guidelines, and clinical standards development
Desirable criteria
- Experience in supervising the work of others and line management
- Experience in supervising student dietitians
- Post-registration and previous experience in managing patients requiring home enteral feeding
- Post-registration and previous experience in managing patients requiring weight reducing advice
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Advanced skills in the assessment and treatment of clients with nutrition related disease
- Knowledge of national policies and guidelines in the area of Nutrition Support, Oncology, Elderly Care, and others
- Ability to work autonomously
- Ability to work as a team member and promote collaborative multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working
- Ability to problem solve, and demonstrate clinical reasoning.
- Good communication and report writing skills, in both verbal and written format
- Basic IT skills – Microsoft Word, Power point, Excel
- Ability to work as a team member and promote collaborative multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working
- Knowledge of and commitment to equal opportunities
- Ability to work with clients from a diverse range of backgrounds
- Ability to manage time effectively, meet deadlines and deal with work pressures and demands
Desirable criteria
- Excellent group education skills
Key Attributes
Essential criteria
- Personally and Professionally responsible
- Able to self-motivate
- Ability to be flexible, adaptable and reliable
- Able to carry out moderate physical effort throughout the day
- Car driver with valid UK license
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
- Maria Simmons
- Job title
- Home Enteral Feeding Dietitian
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208349 7323
- Additional information
For clinical job related questions please contact Maria Simmons Lead HEFT dietitian on 0208 349 7323
List jobs with Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust in Allied Health Professions or all sectors