Job summary
- Main area
- dietetics
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week
- Job ref
- 270-TH515-AD
- Employer
- Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Highfield Clinical Care Centre
- Town
- Northampton
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/11/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Community Hospital Dietitian
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
The post involves providing a service to inpatients in community hospitals and you will work with the MDT team based there to provide evidence based nutritional care and support onward rehabilitation /safe discharge. You will have support from the other dietitians working in the community, the acute hospitals and the home enteral feeding team.
You will work with patients and staff in the following community hospitals: Brackley, Corby, Danetre (Daventry), Isebrook (Wellingborough) and Spinneyfields (Rushen). You will work jointly with the food service dietitian to help meet national standards for food provisions and improve patient care. There will be a small outpatient caseload to review discharged patients.
Main duties of the job
You will be accountable to the professional lead for Nutrition and Dietetics and you will be based at Northampton General Hospital or Kettering General Hospital site within the dietetic teams based there. The post involves providing a service to inpatients in community hospitals and you will work with the MDT team based there to provide evidence based nutritional care and support onward rehabilitation /safe discharge. You will have support from the other dietitians working in the community, the acute hospitals and the home enteral feeding team.
You will work with patients and staff in the following community hospitals: Brackley, Corby, Danetre (Daventry), Isebrook (Wellingborough) and Spinneyfields (Rushen). You will work jointly with the food service dietitian to help meet national standards for food provisions and improve patient care. There will be a small outpatient caseload to review discharged patients.
Working for our organisation
NHFT is an NHS Community and Mental Health Foundation Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in hospital settings and in the community. We provide over 200 services across the county - as well as some specialist services in bordering and nearby counties. We work together with our partners to ensure that everyone who comes through our doors receives compassionate, person-centred care, regardless of their background or circumstances.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning, to improve the care and safety of our patients and colleagues. We have achieved our ‘outstanding’ rating by encouraging opportunity, innovation, development and growth across our workforce.
At NHFT we believe that work should be rewarded in every sense which is why we are proud to an accredited living wage employer.
We aim to support financial wellbeing and create an environment where are people feel valued and able to thrive.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The role involves:
• Undertaking comprehensive assessment of patients with complex presentations within inpatient and outpatient settings.
• Formulating individual management and treatment plans using advanced clinical reasoning and developing comprehensive discharge plans including advice on appropriate ACBS prescribable enteral feeds and supplements to be used.
• 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, measuring outcomes and contribute to and implement service improvement work to provide safe patient care and manage risk
• Using a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients to complete dietetic assessments and implement treatment plans. This will include using listening skills and behaviour change skills to motivate patients and families/carers to change their lifestyle behaviours and communication in a way to meet inclusion and diversity needs
• 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.
· To lead on service improvement work that can benefit patient care and the wider MDT
• Organising and prioritisation of own workload and managing clinical risk within caseload
. Supporting training for dietetic learners and providing practice education experience
Please note this is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities of the post. The post holder may be required to undertake other duties as may reasonably be required commensurate with the grade and/or hours of work at the post holders initial place of work or at any other of the Trust’s establishments.
Person specification
knowledge
Essential criteria
- wide range of dietetic experiences, evidence of inpatient and UK working preferred
communication
Essential criteria
- demonstrate competency in a wide range of communication skills
professionalism
Essential criteria
- demonstrates competency in a variety of professional skills
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
- Alison Scott
- Job title
- Professional lead dietetics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03000270059
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