Senior Specialist Dietitian Front Door Services

Overview

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) – Senior Specialist Dietitian for Front Door Services at Weston General Hospital (WGH).
The closing date is 22 February 2026
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Are you an experienced Dietitian ready to take the next steps in your career? Are you keen to further develop your specialist knowledge, leadership, and service development skills?

Become a Senior Specialist Dietitian at UHBW where you will play a crucial role in leading, developing and delivering high-quality nutritional care to patients within Front Door Services at Weston General Hospital. Although there is a focus on frailty and the older person, working within the front door setting you will encounter a wide range of patients and clinical conditions. No two days are the same!

Our friendly, multidisciplinary teams work closely together to deliver outstanding care, with a strong focus on professional development. Get to know the team – search You Tube UHBW Adult Therapies video.

Why choose Weston? WGH is an integral part of UHBW, providing high-quality care to the vibrant community in the beautiful coastal town of Weston-super-Mare. With a commitment to innovation and strong links to leading specialist centres, Weston is an exciting place to advance your career. Enjoy a fantastic work-life balance with the Somerset coastline on your doorstep, and excellent transport links to Bristol, Bath, and beyond.

As a Senior Specialist Dietitian, you will be at the heart of nutritional care for Front Door Services. You will:

• Provide expert dietetic assessment and intervention for complex cases.
• Work closely with leading consultants, specialist nurses, and the wider MDT to optimise patient outcomes.
• Lead and develop specialist dietetic services, influencing patient pathways and service delivery.
• Support the development of junior staff and students, sharing your expertise and passion for dietetics.
• Lead service improvement projects, and policy development.

HCPC registration and significant post-registration experience in dietetics. Specialist knowledge in frailty and the older person, with a passion for advancing nutritional care in these areas. Leadership skills to inspire and guide others. The ability to adapt quickly to established systems and drive innovative ideas to enhance service delivery.

• CPD opportunities
• Specialist training & leadership pathway
• Dietetic Competencies
• Monthly protected non-clinical time
• A monthly team well-being breakfast
• A supportive and collaborative environment with a team passionate about patient care and professional growth

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as  Good  overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond.

As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.

UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them.

Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we re meeting our pledge.

The Senior Specialist Dietitian provides a highly specialist clinical service…