Community Dietitian

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Windsor; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

NHS pension

Career development opportunities

Cycle to Work scheme

Free parking

Job summary

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Windsor is seeking a Band 5 Dietitian to deliver nutritional care across a diverse community caseload. You will work in outpatient settings, patient homes, and virtual clinics, with opportunities to lead diabetes and weight-management education sessions.

This role suits a newly qualified Dietitian or an experienced Band 5 seeking to expand skills within a supportive service offering mobile and flexible working patterns.

Responsibilities

• Working under the guidance of the Team Lead Dietitian, to provide dietetic care to a varied and diverse caseload of patients in the community as outlined above.
• Travelling to and providing care at various sites including but not limited to community hospitals, patients’ homes, nursing homes, GP practices and some home working.
• Delivering a proportion of care using online platforms e.g. OneConsultation, MS Teams and Webex
• Delivering diabetes and weight management education groups.
• Supporting our Dietetic learners.
• Mentoring Dietetic Assistant Practitioners.
• Involvement in departmental research activity and quality improvement project work.
• Contribute to service improvement conversations in dedicated meetings.

Job description

This exciting, varied Band 5 Dietitian post offers the opportunity to develop a broad range of clinical skills across a varied and diverse community caseload. The successful candidate will provide nutritional care in a range of settings, including outpatient clinics, virtual community inpatient wards and patients' own homes. The role also includes delivering group education on weight management and diabetes.

This role would be ideal for a newly qualified Dietitian or for an existing band 5 Dietitian wanting to expand their experience within a supportive and innovative service.

We are a mobile working service and offer our patients the choice of face-to-face, virtual and phone appointments as well as home visits. To support this, we have excellent IT access and support staff home-working where appropriate. IT exampled.

As a team we strongly value continuing professional development and offer an employee-led appraisal process and personal development plan. We will support you to develop your ideas for research and audit and offer collaboration and training with our Research & Development and Clinical Effectiveness teams. We also engage in student training and facilitate teaching opportunities.

We are looking for enthusiastic, skilled, and committed dietitians to join this forward-thinking team.

• Working under the guidance of the Team Lead Dietitian, to provide dietetic care to a varied and diverse caseload of patients in the community as outlined above.
• Travelling to and providing care at various sites including but not limited to community hospitals, patients’ homes, nursing homes, GP practices and some home working.
• Delivering a proportion of care using online platforms e.g. OneConsultation, MS Teams and Webex
• Delivering diabetes and weight management education groups.
• Supporting our Dietetic learners.
• Mentoring Dietetic Assistant Practitioners.
• Involvement in departmental research activity and quality improvement project work.
• Contribute to service improvement conversations in dedicated meetings.

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our Values At Berkshire Healthcare Are

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Tina Howe Job title: Dietetic Clinical Lead for Nutrition Support Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07717432859