Job overview

We have a  fixed term vacancy for a part-time Band 6 Community Dietitian to cover maternity leave until the end of  November 2025, in our friendly community dietetics team covering the Wandsworth area.  The working hours are 18.75 hours per week (0.5wte) and  flexible working hours can be agreed. The team is located at St John’s Therapy Centre, in a convenient location near Clapham Junction in Battersea.

The community dietetics team at St John’s Therapy Centre works closely with the acute dietetics department at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, to ensure safe discharge and community follow-up. 

Main duties of the job

You will deliver a general service for adults within community dietetics clinics based in health centres across Wandsworth, with a mixed caseload including nutrition support, IBS, diabetes and weight management. You will also  have a general domiciliary caseload and visit people in their own homes. 

You will be supervised by a Band 7 Specialist Community Dietitian and have the opportunity to work with other specialist Community Dietitians to develop your skills in nutrition support, home enteral feeding and diabetes.

If you work well as part of a team and have excellent communication, interpersonal and organisational skills, we look forward to receiving your application. We are looking for a highly motivated dietitian with a range of postgraduate experience in general dietetics. Experience in the community/primary care setting is desirable, though not essential.

As this is a community post, you will be required to travel around Wandsworth. You can use public transport or you can use your own car or bicycle if you prefer.

Working for our organisation

The wider dietetic department at St George’s NHS Foundation trust consists of over 60 dietitians, who provide clinical inpatient and outpatient services to a variety of specialties including Community, Oncology, Renal, Neurology, Haematology, Paediatrics, Cardiology, GI services, Surgical, Diabetes and Infectious Diseases. The department is committed to training dietetic students and actively participates in the training programs of clinical and non-clinical staff. There are numerous opportunities for professional and personal development.