Specialist Eating Disorder Dietician - Treatment Service

Specialist Eating Disorder Dietician - Day Treatment Service

The closing date is 29 June 2026

The Adult Clinical Specialist Eating Disorder Service Dietitian will be an integral part of an existing multidisciplinary team delivering evidence‑based eating disorder treatment to people and their families/carers across Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership Trust.

The post holder will be an expert Dietitian for the Eating Disorder Day Treatment Service and will have the lead role in developing and directly delivering specialised dietetic care.

The post holder will be responsible for creating and maintaining robust links with a range of disciplines and agencies including acute centre teams, eating disorders units, GP's, voluntary agencies, social services, community mental health services to ensure optimal patient transition and delivery of care. The post holder must have their own car and be willing to travel across Coventry and Warwickshire for appointments, meetings, supervision and CPD opportunities.

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in‑house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support group

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.

Communication

• High quality written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to develop therapeutic relationships with clients with complex clinical presentations who may have limited understanding and who may be manipulative and/or hostile, in highly emotive situations. This involves highly developed persuasive, empathic or reassurance skills.
• Able to convey highly complex, sensitive or contentious information (e.g. challenge weight manipulation, communicate need for inpatient treatment) to patients, carers/families and a wide array of other professionals within and outside of the NHS, where there may be complex family and organisational systems.
• Able to demonstrate confidence, leadership and self‑motivation.
• Shows ability to use tact and diplomacy, where necessary.
• Applies communication and networking skills to create robust links and maintain effective communication channels with other professionals and multidisciplinary teams within and external to Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership Trust to ensure safe and optimal care and handover.
• Maintains effective working relationships with other professionals within the community mental health eating disorders pathway multidisciplinary team as well as other relevant health care teams within the Trust.
• Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive information with significant barriers to acceptance on part of the client and/or their family.
• To attend and contribute to relevant professional and service meetings and other multidisciplinary and multi‑agency settings.

Analytical and Judgemental Skills / Freedom to Act

• This role involves a high level of autonomy; the clinician is expected to manage their own workload, provide care‑coordination, assess nutritional risk and report clinical opinion.
• The clinician is solely responsible for dietetic treatment plans for clients on…