Specialist Community Dietitian

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
-TG628-ACS

Site Highfield Clinical Education Centre Town Northampton Salary £38,682 - £46,580 pa pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 15/01/2026 23:59

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.

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

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.

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.

• HCPC registered and diverse range of dietetic experience - nutritional support and weight managed especially
• demonstrated competency in a wide range of communication skills and ability to motivate patients to change behaviourr

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

You must ensure that your application, including supporting statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.

Correspondence regarding your application will be sent to you via a TRAC system account.

Please submit your application as soon as possible; due to the high volumes of applications we receive we reserve the…