Dietitian

Practice Plus Group; England; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 25,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite parking

Onsite Café

Access to gym

Discounts on shopping and leisure

Staff development opportunities

Employee assistance helpline

Job summary

Practice Plus Group is recruiting a part-time Dietitian to join our Primary Care team at HMP Eastwood Park in Gloucestershire. You will deliver a comprehensive dietetic service to a varied caseload within a secure environment, providing evidence-based dietary advice and care planning.

You’ll assess nutritional needs, support staff training, and work with multidisciplinary teams to promote wellbeing and effective dietary care.

Qualifications

• Dietitian degree or equivalent required.
• Experience in a large multi-disciplinary team.
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development.
• Understanding of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working.
• Knowledge of healthcare policies and best practice.

Responsibilities

• Advise on therapeutic diets and specialist nutritional requirements, delivering a comprehensive dietetic service to patients within the prison.
• Undertake specialist nutritional assessments and develop evidence-based treatment plans.
• Provide dietary advice for conditions such as diabetes, CVD, GI disorders, malnutrition, obesity, and allergies.
• Monitor and adjust care plans based on patient progress.
• Collaborate with healthcare professionals, prison staff, catering, and external agencies to ensure nutrition care.
• Deliver nutritional education and health promotion activities to individuals and groups.

Skills

Dietitian qualification

HCPC registered

Multidisciplinary teamwork

CPD evidence

Healthcare policy knowledge

Education

Dietitian degree

HCPC registration

Job description

MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO EVERY LIFE

We have an exciting opportunity for a part time Dietitian to join our Primary Care team at HMP Eastwood Park, located in Gloucestershire. HMP Eastwood Park is a women's prison focused on rehabilitation, wellbeing, and helping individuals build positive futures. Health care is situated in the prison and provides a 24 hour healthcare and has a capacity of around 400 females.

We have an exciting opportunity for a part time Dietitian to join our Primary Care team at HMP Eastwood Park, located in Gloucestershire. HMP Eastwood Park is a women's prison focused on rehabilitation, wellbeing, and helping individuals build positive futures. Health care is situated in the prison and provides a 24 hour healthcare and has a capacity of around 400 females.

ABOUT THE ROLE

UNLOCK YOUR BEST WORK LIFE

MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO EVERY LIFE

As part of this Dietitian role, you will have a varied and rewarding workload, including managing a clinical caseload, delivering training and upskilling staff, facilitating group sessions for patients.

This is an excellent opportunity to shape the role and make it your own. You'll have the autonomy to develop services, introduce new ideas

Site offers:

• Onsite parking
• Onsite Café
• Access to gym

Hours:

• Monday - Friday
• 18.75 hours per week
• We are flexible in the working days / hours

Salary

You’ll receive an annual salary between £21,805 - £24,578 per annum, depending on experience.

How will we support you?

• Bespoke induction, including our Introducing Health in Justice training course
• Competency framework
• Regional and national career development opportunities
• Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs
• Support from the wider team

Candidates are required to have a Legal right to work in the UK and due to the nature of the role, offers of employment will be subject to additional vetting and security checks.

What you'll be doing

• Advise on therapeutic diets and specialist nutritional requirements, ensuring these are Deliver a comprehensive dietetic service to patients within the prison, managing a varied and complex caseload.
• Undertake specialist nutritional assessments and develop evidence-based treatment plans tailored to individual patient needs.
• Provide expert dietary advice and interventions for patients with a range of clinical conditions, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, gastrointestinal disorders, malnutrition, obesity, and food allergies or intolerances.
• Monitor, review, and evaluate patient progress, adjusting care plans as required.
• Work collaboratively with healthcare professionals, prison staff, catering services, and external agencies to ensure effective nutritional care and support.
• Provide nutritional education and health promotion activities to individuals and groups, supporting behaviour change and self-management.

It doesn’t stop there we also offer:

• Discounts on shopping and leisure activities
• Support to grow in your role and continue your professional development
• 24/7 employee assistance helpline and financial assistance when you need it

What we’ll look for in you

The Health in Justice team at Practice Plus Group makes a real difference across over 53 prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. We’re the UK’s leading independent provider of NHS services to over 40,000 patients in secure environments, always putting their needs first, regardless of their background.

Practice Plus Group’s purpose is to Unlock your best work life and we stand by our core values:

• we treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated
• we act with integrity
• we embrace diversity
• we strive to do things better together

We are looking for caring, compassionate but also driven professionals who can help us drive our vision for a fair and inclusive healthcare access to all.

• Dietician Degree Qualification or equivalent - HCPC
• Experience of working as a dietician in a large multi- disciplinary team,
• Health Professions Council– Licence to Practice.
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development
• Understanding of the complexities of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working
• Knowledge of healthcare policies and best practice

Although not essential ideal applicants would have experience in a hospital, community or prison environment.

Secure environments are one of the most challenging, yet rewarding places for healthcare professionals to work. If you’re looking for a role where you can develop your existing healthcare skills and learn something new every day in an environment that never stands still, then this could be the right opportunity for you