Community Dietitian | Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Milton Keynes is seeking a Community Dietitian to join their innovative team. The role involves managing patients requiring nutritional support with opportunities for flexible working and professional development. Candidates with varying experience levels are encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will work in the community, providing expert advice, conducting assessments, and supporting junior staff. This position offers a chance to make a real difference in patient care.

Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal and time-management skills, with flexibility.
• Strong commitment to teamwork.
• Ability to work closely with community and acute colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical service for home enteral feeding or oral nutritional support.
• Communicate with patients, carers and healthcare professionals.
• Assist in identifying practice changes and resource needs.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Time management

Teamwork

Experience in enteral feeding

Job description

Community Dietitian

Department of Nutrition & Dietetics
Salary: £38,682 – £46,580
Band 6
Hours: up to 37.5 hours per week
All MKUH roles will be considered for flexible or part‑time working
Once trained, working from home will be possible each month
Candidates with less experience are welcome to apply; we will support development from B5 to B6 competencies

Overview

An opportunity has arisen to join our forward‑thinking and friendly community dietetic team in Milton Keynes. The team manages patients on oral nutritional support or enteral feeding across specialties including mental health, respiratory, dementia, frailty, cancer, neurological, stroke and gastroenterology. Patients are seen in homes, care homes, and community inpatient units. The post is suitable for a band 5 dietitian who can work autonomously, or a band 6 dietitian looking to widen their skills. Access to a car is desirable. Supervision and mentoring will be provided by experienced community dietitians.

Leadership responsibilities

• Assist, support and supervise junior grades and students, contributing to their professional development including appraisal and personal development plans.
• Build good working relationships with other members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure effective team working between different disciplines.
• Provide nutrition advice to key stakeholders and colleagues by researching the evidence base and identifying opportunities for development and innovation.

Clinical responsibilities

• Provide a clinical service to a referred complex caseload of patients, clients and carers for home enteral feeding or oral nutritional support.
• Work autonomously to deliver expert advice to patients, including nutritional diagnosis, development of suitable feeding plans, education, monitoring, and reassessment over time.

Education responsibilities

• Recognise the need for continuous professional development and identify training and development needs.
• Feedback learning from training to inform other members of the department and enhance service development.

Clinical governance responsibilities

• Access, critically appraise and use best practice/evidence‑based information to contribute to the production and review of clinical guidelines and inform care pathways.

Organisation and administrative responsibilities

• Keep accurate and timely paper and/or electronic notes for patients within professional and organisational guidelines.
• Ensure confidentiality and adherence to organisational and departmental policies.
• Order feeding equipment when required and manage prescription requests for enteral feed products or oral nutritional supplements.

Communication responsibilities

• Communicate with patients, carers and other healthcare professionals across the local healthcare environment.
• Communicate regularly with dietetic colleagues across the region.

General responsibilities

• Assist in identifying problems where changes to practice or additional resources are required to support caseload; discuss these with line manager.
• Review own practices and systems and communicate clearly and sensitively across key working relationships using educational material, reports and presentations.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Excellent interpersonal and time‑management skills, with flexibility and a strong commitment to teamwork.
• Ability to work closely with community and acute colleagues to provide a holistic, patient‑centred service.
• Experience in oral nutritional support or enteral feeding is desirable; candidates with less experience are welcome to apply.
• Access to a car is desirable.

Interview date: 10 December 2025. This advert closes on Monday 1 December 2025.