Job overview

Frimley Health Foundation Trust is seeking a motivated and experienced Band 6 Senior Surgical Dietitian for a part-time, 7 month fixed-term position until March 2026. Based at Wexham Park Hospital, the post-holder will work within the acute adult team, covering surgical wards and managing a caseload of complex medical and respiratory patients.

Working alongside a Band 7 Surgical Dietitian, you will provide comprehensive oral, enteral, and parenteral nutrition support. This role offers an excellent opportunity to further develop your expertise in surgical and medical dietetics, particularly in areas such as parenteral nutrition.

You will be an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team, contributing to clinical governance, delivering training to healthcare professionals, and collaborating with dietetic colleagues across the Trust. The post also includes opportunities to raise the profile of dietetics within the surgical department and contribute to service development.

Frimley Health’s dietetic team is a supportive and well-established department covering 12 specialties. The Trust places high value on wellbeing, supervision, and professional development, offering a positive and collaborative work environment with access to internal and external learning opportunities.

Main duties of the job

• To provide assessment, treatment and management of surgical and complex medical inpatients
• To provide an effective high-quality service to all in and outpatients
• To act as a specialist resource for the medical/surgical team and Dietitians with Wexham Park Hospital
• To be responsible for service development, implement policy and policy changes and to set and monitor standards of practice
• To undertake evidence-based projects, including recommendations and to develop audit and research in this area
• To be flexible in times of increased capacity to the service

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.