Community Dietitian

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- Swindon

£32,073 - £39,043 FTE with Afc terms and conditions and NHS Pension

Weekly contracted hours:

37.5

Location:

Swindon

Closing Date:

13/08/2026

Job Category:

HCRG
- Allied Health Professionals

Service type:

HCRG
- Community Services P1

Business Unit:

HCRG - BSW
- Community Services

Make a Real Difference in Your Community

Are you passionate about empowering people to improve their health through nutrition? Join our established Community Dietetic Team and play a vital role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care across Wiltshire and Swindon. Every day, you'll help individuals achieve better health outcomes, maintain independence, and improve their quality of life through expert nutritional support in a variety of community settings.

As a Community Dietitian, you will provide high-quality, evidence-based dietetic assessment, treatment and management to patients across a range of community environments. Working as part of a supportive and experienced team, you will deliver personalised nutritional care to individuals with diverse clinical needs while contributing to innovative and responsive community services.

This is an exciting opportunity to develop your clinical skills across a varied caseload while making a meaningful impact on patients' lives outside of traditional hospital settings.

Location:Swindon Intermediate Care Centre
Contract: 37.5 hours per week (Full-Time)

As a Community Dietitian, you will be part of our valued team at HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £32,073 - £39,043 FTE (Band 5 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ring fenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

• Managing a diverse clinical caseload, delivering high-quality dietetic assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and review for patients across community inpatient and outpatient settings.
• Developing and implementing evidence-based nutritional care plans, using clinical judgement to interpret biochemistry, anthropometric measurements, dietary intake, and medical information.
• Communicating complex nutritional information effectively to patients, carers, and healthcare professionals, using behaviour change, motivational interviewing, and counselling techniques to support positive outcomes.
• Providing personalised and practical dietary advice, ensuring interventions are tailored to individual needs, circumstances, and treatment goals.
• Working collaboratively with GPs, community teams, care homes, support workers, and other healthcare professionals to deliver integrated, patient-centred care.
• Assessing the need for oral nutritional supplements and provide specialist advice on nutrition-related prescribing and food-drug interactions.
• Supporting nutrition and hydration initiatives across community and inpatient settings, including menu review, nutritional standards, and partnership working with catering teams.
• Designing and delivering training and education…