Community Dietitian | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Wokingham; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Wokingham is seeking a Community Dietitian to provide dietetic care in diverse settings including homes and nursing facilities. Candidates should hold a degree in Nutrition and Dietetics and be registered with the appropriate health councils. The role offers flexible working options, generous annual leave, and excellent career development opportunities, making it suitable for those looking to thrive in the nutrition and dietetics field.

Benefits

Flexible working options

27 days’ annual leave

Generous NHS pension scheme

Excellent learning and career development opportunities

Discounts at popular retailers and restaurants

Free parking across Trust sites

Qualifications

• Registered with Health Care Professions Council and full BDA membership.
• Experience of working in acute/community setting as a dietitian or dietetic learner/student.
• Ability to prioritise workload and travel to multiple sites.

Responsibilities

• Provide dietetic care to a varied caseload of patients in the community.
• Travel to community hospitals, patients’ homes, and nursing homes.
• Deliver diabetes education groups and support student training.

Skills

Nutrition and Dietetics

Patient care

Flexible working

Team collaboration

Education

Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics

Job description

Overview

Community Dietitian - Band 5
Wokingham Hospital

The Berkshire Community Dietetic Service has an opportunity to offer a permanent Band 5 Community Dietitian role. The post holder will be covering a community caseload, including providing dietetic care to nursing home patients via the Care Home Support Team, training to nursing staff, outpatient clinics, community inpatient ward input, paediatric triage, patients requiring nutritional support or enteral nutrition in nursing homes and their own homes. There are opportunities within the department to shadow, upskill in specialist areas.

We are a mobile working service and offer our outpatients 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.

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 continually striving to improve the service we offer our patients and embrace new ways of working via our quality improvement system (QMIS).

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

Responsibilities

• Working under the guidance of the Care Home Support 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 education groups.
• Supporting our student training programme.
• Mentoring Dietetic Assistant Practitioners (DAPs).
• Involvement in departmental research activity and quality improvement project work.
• Contribute to service improvement conversations in dedicated meetings.

What we offer and values

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 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

Essential requirements (the “must haves”)

1. Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics
2. Registered with Health Care Professions Council and full BDA membership
3. Experience of working in acute/community setting as a dietitian or dietetic learner/student
4. Ability to prioritise workload and work flexibly – travelling to multiple sites is often required
5. Ability to work from home with WiFi using equipment provided by BHFT

Other information

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification. We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted. We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed. We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please contact Hannah Taylor at [e-mail]. This advert closes on Thursday 25 Sep 2025.