Bank level 6 Specialist Adult Inpatient Dietitian

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider in Birmingham is seeking a dietitian to join its inpatient team. The role involves managing a diverse caseload, providing nutritional support, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team. Ideal candidates should have experience in nutritional support, dysphagia, and enteral feeding. This position offers opportunities for professional growth, flexible working, and comprehensive support for development.

Benefits

Free parking at community venues

Excellent IT support

Annual appraisals and clinical supervision

Qualifications

• Experience of nutritional support, dysphagia and enteral feeding is essential for this role.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of the Inpatient Dietetic Team and contribute to nutrition support initiatives.
• Manage a complex and diverse caseload of inpatients.
• Communicate effectively with colleagues to facilitate patient care.

Skills

Nutritional support

Enteral feeding

Dysphagia management

Job description

Job Overview

A Vacancy at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A BANK ONLY POST AND NOT A PERMANENT SUBSTANTIVE POST.

Have you ever wondered what happened to your patients once they transferred to a community hospital ward? Would you enjoy seeing how their dietetic care continues in a community setting? If so, Birmingham Community Nutrition has a vacancy in our high profile and dynamic community hospital inpatient team.

This role can be flexed to nurture individuals at or near the start of their career or can build on and develop skills for more experienced dietitians.

This unique post is part of a multi professional community hospitals’ dietetic team with good support from dietetic assistant practitioners. The teamleads enteral feeding and supplement prescribing and provides high quality nutritional care at Moseley Hall Hospital and West Heath Hospital in Birmingham.

Experience of nutritional support, dysphagia and enteral feeding is essential for this role. You will also have opportunity to work alongside our award-winning Nutrition Nurse team to develop your enteral feeding knowledge and practice.

To work as part of the Inpatient Dietetic Team and through this contribute to the development of nutrition support initiatives such as outcome measures, nutritional assessment and care pathways. This involves taking particular responsibility for initiatives and issues relating to enteral feeding in wards, such as the maintenance of the Trust Enteral Feeding Policy.

To manage a complex and diverse caseload of inpatients which includes liaison with other health professionals, suppliers, patients and carers to facilitate the provision of appropriate, timely and cost effective nutrition support for patients who are enterally fed or on oral nutritional supplements.

To communicate effectively with colleagues within and outside the department to facilitate effective patient care, service development and multidisciplinary working. This includes attending relevant meetings regarding the patients to represent their nutrition and dietetic care.

This team is part of Birmingham Community Nutrition which provide a comprehensive community citywide service for the Birmingham and Solihull ICB and employs over 70 staff. We also support the training of dietetic learners from local higher education establishments.

Benefits of working for Birmingham Community Nutrition include free parking at all community venues, excellent access to IT equipment to work remotely, up to date office facilities and comprehensive admin support dedicated to the service.

The department has a comprehensive structure to support Clinical Governance and your personal development via annual appraisals, clinical supervision and training opportunities. Career development, flexible working and staff support are given high priority in the Trust.

Responsibilities

Work as part of the Inpatient Dietetic Team and contribute to the development of nutrition support initiatives such as outcome measures, nutritional assessment and care pathways.

Take particular responsibility for initiatives and issues relating to enteral feeding in wards, such as the maintenance of the Trust Enteral Feeding Policy.

Manage a complex and diverse caseload of inpatients which includes liaison with other health professionals, suppliers, patients and carers to facilitate the provision of appropriate, timely and cost effective nutrition support for patients who are enterally fed or on oral nutritional supplements.

Communicate effectively with colleagues within and outside the department to facilitate effective patient care, service development and multidisciplinary working, including attending relevant meetings and representing the patient's nutrition and dietetic care.

Deliver a high-quality dietetic service for stroke and adult inpatients at Moseley Hall Hospital and West Heath Hospital.

Support multidisciplinary team working on the inpatient wards in order to develop and implement high quality, integrated patient care.

Provide specialised advice and second clinical opinion to other colleagues, working in collaboration with other teams and services in order to support a consistent and equitable service.

Qualifications and Experience

Experience of nutritional support, dysphagia and enteral feeding is essential for this role.

Important Information

• Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully.
• Please be aware that BCHC utilises a third party recruitment system (TRAC). When applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into TRAC and any correspondence will be sent via TRAC. We advise that you check your junk/spam email.
• Work under the dietetic team leader for inpatient units and support the development and delivery of the service provided.
• Work as an autonomous specialist practitioner, deputising for the dietetic team leader for the bedded units and be responsible for co-ordinating all areas of patient clinical care and service provision in their absence.
• Actively pass on, and also encourage others to share, their skills, knowledge and experience within both formal and informal environments, having responsibility for the development of other dietitians, health professionals and students.
• Fulfill all tasks and work as part of a team. This includes taking responsibility for delegated tasks, which do not fall within the work outlined, as reasonably requested by the Service Lead.
• Deliver a high-quality dietetic service for stroke and adult inpatients at Moseley Hall Hospital and West Heath Hospital.
• Support multidisciplinary team working on the inpatient wards in order to develop and implement high quality, integrated patient care.
• Provide specialised advice and second clinical opinion to other colleagues, working in collaboration with other teams and services in order to support a consistent and equitable service. Full duties and responsibilities are outlined in JD.

This advert closes on Thursday 25 Dec 2025.