Dietetic Service Lead Community

Position: Dietetic Service Lead for Community

Main area Nutrition and Dietetics Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Job share

Job share or part time hours will be considered (minimum 30 hour/week) Job
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Employer Hywel Dda University Health Board Employer type NHS Site Health Board Wide Town Health Board Wide Salary £56,514 - £63,623 per annum (pro rata if part time) Salary period Yearly Closing 19/01/2026 23:59 Interview date 27/01/2026

Dietetic Service Lead for Community Band 8a

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Job overview

Are you an experienced Dietetic lead working in a Community Health setting or a highly experienced Clinical lead, ready for your next step up the career ladder? If yes, then we have the ideal post for you!

Do you want to join the 1st Health Board in Wales to have a Malnutrition strategic lead, as well as an award-winning team, who have for 2 years running been recognised by BAPEN as ‘top Nutritional screeners’ , then read on!

If you are an innovative and compassionate leader, who thrives on leading and supporting service development, then this may be the post you have been looking for!

We are looking for an experienced Dietetic lead to join our friendly and supportive team, as a lead for our Health Board Community Dietetic service. You will work closely with our Community clinical leads, Dietetic service leads, CNS nutrition nurses, professional practice nurses and Malnutrition strategic lead, to ensure Malnutrition is a key priority, embedded operationally across acute pathways Health Board wide.

Main

duties of the job

You will manage a team of Clinical lead Dietitian’s working in Community HB wide, lead on workforce strategy and service development plans.

You will have excellent communication and team working skills and will work collaboratively with the wider multi professional team, to ensure all aspects of Community Nutrition support are embedded safely in practice. A key aspect of this role is developing, implementing, and evaluating the development of a cohesive health board wide community service, ensuring a robust supervision and governance structure is in place, whilst embedding a candid and learning culture.

You will set the direction of travel for community, intermediate and urgent dietetic service and will pro-actively lead and support clinical leads with performance reporting. You will have a passion for promoting workforce wellbeing, as well as driving professional development opportunities, utilising the pillars of professional practice. You will be pro-active in highlighting the work of community Dietetics and will have experience in innovation, transformation and quality improvement.

You will have extensive knowledge and experience of specialist aspects of community dietetics and will hold a caseload of complex community caseload and clinics. This post is across the health board, requiring travel across sites. Ideally based in Ceredigion, however this post base can considered flexible to the right candidate.

Working for our organisation

Hywel Dda University Health Board plans and provides NHS healthcare services for people living in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, and bordering counties.

We have over 13,000 staff and together we provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities…