Dietitian

NHS; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Liverpool is seeking a Dietitian to perform nutritional assessments, monitor care plans, and supervise student Dietitians. This supportive environment offers development opportunities in a large teaching hospital. You will collaborate within a multidisciplinary team to improve patient safety and care quality.

Qualifications

• Clinical placement conducted within both acute teaching and primary care environments.
• Experience of multi-disciplinary working.
• Able to prioritise work and respond to demands.

Responsibilities

• Nutritional assessment of inpatients and outpatients.
• Review and monitoring of nutritional care plans.
• Training and supervision of student Dietitians.

Skills

Communication skills

I.T. Skills

Education

BSc in Nutrition and Dietetics

Current or pending registration with HCPC

Membership of BDA or equivalent

Job description

Go back Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dietitian

The closing date is 23 September 2025

This post is based in Aintree Hospital, and links with our other site at the Royal Liverpool, Broadgreen and Women's hospital sites. We are based just 15 minutes from Liverpool's bustling city centre and we are a Major Trauma Centre for Cheshire and Merseyside.

You will work closely with the other Band 5 dietitians with excellent support from the Senior Dietitians in our acute team. You will rotate to cover a mixture of specialist and general caseload, including one of the major head and neck oncology centres in England, and other specialties such as Gastroenterology, Critical Care and Surgery. This will give you fantastic opportunity to develop exposure to many specialist areas so would also suit someone looking to gain skills in a large teaching hospital.

Your career development and well-being are very important to us and we are a friendly and supportive team that will help you reach your full potential. The trust has a preceptorship programme to support newly qualified Band 5 staff with peer support and allocated preceptors and clinical supervisors.

Main duties of the job

You would be part of a well-respected, highly knowledgeable team of Dietitians, Dietetic Assistants, and Assistant Practitioners with the expert support from a Nutrition Team service. You will work closely as part of an integrated Therapies team.

We train student dietitians and have an active clinical supervision and development programme for Band 5s to develop in your role, with opportunities for service development, teaching and audit. You will work closely with the wider team to identify any quality issues within the service, contribute to local governance meetings and provide education for patients, staff and colleagues.

About us

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specializes in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For roles at Liverpool Women's, visit their careers page.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to Job description and person specification for full details.

• The role will involve nutritional assessment of inpatients and outpatients, the review and monitoring of nutritional care plans and outcomes.
• Patient safety and quality of care is paramount and we encourage clinical incident reporting and identifying ways to improve the safety and quality of care for our patients.
• You will be involved in the training and supervision of student Dietitians.

We encourage audit, service development and professional development and value a culture of learning within the trust.

Person Specification

Skills

• Communication skills to effectively convey information, both written and verbal
• I.T. Skills

Experience

• Time management - able to prioritise work, respond appropriately to demands and keep to time in out patient setting
• Clinical placement conducted within both acute teaching and primary care environments
• Experience of multi-disciplinary working

Qualifications

• BSc in Nutrition and Dietetics
• Current or pending registration with HCPC
• Membership of BDA or equivalent professional indemnity

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust