Dietitian

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust – Dietitian (Band
5)

We have an exciting opportunity to recruit to a Band 5 Dietitian position within the Dietetic Department at the South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust. The closing date is 05 July 2026.

The role involves providing dietetic interventions for nutrition support, weight management, non‑complex gastro, and general dietetic advice. Responsibilities include reviewing diet sheets, auditing, delivering education, supporting student training, and more. The job offers rotations across specialist teams, inpatient wards, community settings (including home and care‑home visits) and outpatient clinics.

We offer an excellent preceptorship scheme for newly qualified practitioners and are committed to staff wellbeing, flexible working and a positive work‑life balance.

• Advise on the dietary management of patients with a range of medical conditions in hospital or community locations.
• Work autonomously to assess and treat own caseload of patients, with support as necessary from senior colleagues.
• Plan, deliver and evaluate training and education to other healthcare professionals, patient groups and the public.
• Liaise with dietetic colleagues and other multidisciplinary team members as necessary (medical, nursing, catering, etc.).
• Promote the ethos of self‑management and prevention to patients, staff and carers to prevent nutritional problems, medical conditions and complications.

• Be clinically competent to give dietetic advice, treatment and dietary counselling to patients on general wards, out‑patient clinics, community locations and telephone reviews.
• Work autonomously to manage own caseload providing dietetic advice to patients, their carers and staff with a range of medical conditions in hospital and community locations, within agreed protocols / guidelines and with support from senior colleagues when necessary.
• Judge the appropriateness of referrals, act on dietetic management and advise referring agents of inappropriate referrals.
• Analyse and interpret information from a variety of sources regarding individual patients (biochemistry, medication, clinical condition, anthropometric measurements).
• Undertake nutritional calculations (calculating nutritional requirements, analysis of nutritional intakes using specialist IT systems).
• Develop and modify dietetic treatment and discharge plans, referring to other specialists as appropriate.
• Recommend appropriate ACBS nutritional products for patients and document appropriately.
• Communicate complex nutrition and dietetic information in an understandable form to staff, clients and carers, using negotiation, motivation and counselling skills, including situations where there are barriers to understanding.
• Work in conjunction with medical, nursing and professional colleagues, attending MDT meetings as necessary to facilitate good communications to provide high quality patient care.
• Liaise and advise catering staff when necessary to ensure the appropriate provision of meals for individual patients.
• Plan, implement and evaluate group education sessions for patients.
• Liaise closely with referrers, GPs and other health professionals, and participate in multidisciplinary meetings or case reviews as appropriate.
• Produce timely reports to referring Health Care Professionals regarding patient care.
• Participate in the health promotion activities of the department.
• Identify opportunities to promote healthier lifestyles or more appropriate nutrition using innovative methods, develop initiatives to promote healthier nutrition.

• Participate in the clinical supervision of student dietitians, including planning timetables and completing assessment tools.
• Plan, implement and evaluate nutrition education & training for nurses, support workers, catering staff, medical, social care staff and the public as required.

• Ensure dietetic practice is up to date, evidence‑based and / or based on best practice by participating in appropriate training and development activities.
• Participate and contribute to clinical supervision to ensure regular evaluation of…