Specialist Community and Primary Care Network Dietitian (Fixed Term

Main area Dietetics Grade NHS AfC:
Band 7 Contract 6 months (Fixed term for 6months with possible extension to 11months) Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working
• Home or remote working
• Compressed hours

Employer Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site West Byfleet Primary Care Network/ St Peter's Hospital Town Chertsey Salary £51,657 - £58,785 per annum inc. HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 13/08/2026 23:59 Interview date 20/08/2026

We have a great opportunity to join our dietetic team at Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital. We have a fixed-term vacancy for a 1.0wte Band 7 Specialist Community and PCN Dietitian for a 6month FTC, with likely extension to 11months. The role offers a wide range of benefits including the opportunity for flexible working, hybrid working, as well as a range of professional development opportunities.

The post holder will be leading dietetic services for West Byfleet PCN working as part of a PCN multi-disciplinary team. They will also hold a clinical caseload as part of the Community Dietetics Team based at Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals. The Community Dietetics Team offers support to a range of patients in care homes and the community requiring nutrition support advice, enteral feeding, and those with complex needs who are unable to attend outpatient clinics.

As a practitioner with a high degree of autonomy you will take responsibility for planning and delivering your own caseload, acting as a source of expertise on dietetic/nutritional management to patients, carers, GPs, consultants as well as other health care professionals in both hospital and community settings.

The Community Dietetic Team form part of the Ashford and St Peter’s Dietetic Department to provide nutrition and dietetic services to CSH Surrey Community Hospitals’ in-patients, care home and community based patients in need of dietetic advice and review. This includes establishing and monitoring patients on enteral feeds in their own homes.

Prospective candidates should be efficient, enthusiastic and confident to work autonomously within a supportive team and their sphere of competence. They should have excellent communication skills, as the job will involve liaising with social care, clinical and community teams as well as patients and their carers.

You will need to be flexible in your approach to work. Experience in a range of clinical areas of dietetics as well as excellent organisational and prioritisation skills are essential to this role. The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate excellent team working skills. The post holder must have a valid UK licence and access to a car.

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at Ashford & St Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with our strong commitment to staff health and wellbeing. We are committed to providing continuous professional development, staff benefits and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

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