Job summary
- Main area
- Community Dietitian
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 220-WHT-3240
- Employer
- Whittington Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Holloway Health Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £35,964 - £43,780 Per Annum inclusive of HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/07/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 01/08/2025
Employer heading

Community Dietitian
NHS AfC: Band 5
Covid-19 Vaccination
Getting vaccinated, and getting a booster, remains the best defence against COVID-19.
We encourage and support staff to get COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible.
Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Whittington Health NHS Trust.
For our current apprenticeship vacancies, please go to https://www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship and use Keyword ‘Whittington’
By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.
Job overview
The post holder will work for Whittington Health’s well established Community Nutrition and Dietetic Service and autonomously manage a diverse caseload within a variety of settings and provide nutritional assessment, dietetic treatment and advice.
The post holder will be required to travel and work across Whittington Health community sites (clinics, nursing homes, patient’s homes, virtual settings and groups) within the Islington and Haringey borough. The service sees predominantly adult patients, however the Haringey sites will also see a smaller caseload of non-complex paediatric patients (>18 months old). Appropriate support and training will be provided where needed.
The post holder will act as an effective member of the dietetic team, working flexibly and supporting colleagues.
Main duties of the job
· Autonomously manage a varied and complex caseload of patients requiring nutrition support
· To provide patient centered approach for patient who require oral nutrition support, either in their own homes, dietetic clinics or within residential care homes
· To provide clinical nutrition and dietetic advice to patients, on a one-to-one basis within a clinic setting providing specialist dietary advice in the management of long term conditions (including but not limited to obesity, diabetes, IBS, gastrointestinal disorders and malnutrition)
· With adequate support and training; provide clinical nutrition and dietetic advice to paediatric patients (including fussy eaters, obesity, faltering growth, single food allergy, non complex patients 18 months or older).
· Using evidence based approach; Nutritional assessment of patients, including the calculation of nutritional requirements based on the interpretation of biochemistry, anthropometry and clinical condition resulting in the formulation of a dietetic treatment plan
Working for our organisation
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of the job, please see attached job description.
· To review routine home Enteral feeding (HEF) patients as needed.
· To educate patients and their carers on complex dietary interventions for enteral and/or oral feeding as required, ensuring compliance with dietary treatment.
· To actively participate in the promotion of good health through promoting healthy eating, in line with government policies and local priorities, liaising closely with the public health departments;
· To be part of setting up and delivering health promotion and patient education groups.
· To be competent in the use of information technology including the formulation of databases for research and audit purposes as well as the use of nutritional packages for assessment of patients nutritional requirements and dietary adequacy as directed by service lead.
· Freedom to act interpreting the Health and Care Professions Council Code of Conduct and working to all agreed standards, policies and procedures within the Dietetic Department and Whittington Health.
· To line manage the Band 4 dietetic assistant or any other junior staff members as needed.
Person specification
Communication
Essential criteria
- Able to communicate complex information in a range of ways
- Able to provide advice and guidance in a way that is understood
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of Clinical Experience in Nutrition and Dietetics
- HCPC Registration as a Dietitian
Development
Essential criteria
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of specialist knowledge area
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sam Holden
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 3316 8850
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