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Job summary

Main area
Dietetics
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent: some fixed term hours in addit available
Hours
Part time - 24 hours per week (some fixed term hours available to make full time to march 2027)
Job ref
270-TG628-ACS
Employer
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Highfield Clinical Education Centre
Town
Northampton
Salary
£38,682 - £46,580 pa pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
15/01/2026 23:59

Employer heading

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

Specialist Community Dietitian

NHS AfC: Band 6

Job overview

We are looking for a dietitian to join our primary care team and can offer opportunities in community and mental health inpatient areas, outpatient clinics and specialist weight management. You will be part of our primary care dietetic team but will have support from a range of clinical specialist dietitians from across Northamptonshire. We are keen to work with you to develop your knowledge and skills and can offer you a competency package to complete if your feel you are not ready for a band 6 post yet but are interested in moving to Northamptonshire. We are looking for a dietitian who is an excellent communicator, a team player, has a patient centred approach to care and keen to develop their clinical practice. 

Main duties of the job

The role involves:

• Providing dietetic assessment, advice, treatment, monitoring and counselling to support behavioural change in patients who meet the referral criteria. This will be delivered through one-to-one interviews, group sessions and community-based clinics.  Some of this work is now done virtually

• Autonomously managing a complex caseload and work with patients and their carers to agree patient centred care plans

• Working collaboratively with the wider multi- disciplinary health care team to ensure delivery of coordinated care and to provide specialist advice and attend case conferences, network meetings as appropriate.

• Evaluating patients’ progress and collecting outcomes

• Contributing to and implementing service improvement work

• Using a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients to implement treatment plans.

• Providing advice and training to patients, carers, colleagues and other healthcare professionals to promote an understanding of the aims of dietetic treatment to ensure a consistent approach to patient care.

• Managing clinical risk within own caseload

• Inputting into the training of dietetic students and other health care professionals

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.

Person specification

knowledge and experience

Essential criteria
  • HCPC registered and diverse range of dietetic experience - nutritional support and weight managed especially

communication skills

Essential criteria
  • demonstrated competency in a wide range of communication skills and ability to motivate patients to change behaviourr

professional skills

Essential criteria
  • demonstrates team working, organisational skills and ability to work to work autonomously

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyWorkplace Wellbeing Charter LogoArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerCare quality commission - OutstandingStep into health

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Alison Scott
Job title
Professional lead dietetics
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07732 405715
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