Dietitian

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust; Oldham; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Dietitian to join our inpatient hospital team. You will manage a caseload across wards, delivering nutritional support and education, while collaborating with senior dietitians on complex cases.

The role offers opportunities to lead clinic activities, develop care plans for oral and enteral nutrition, and participate in service developments and audits within a large NHS trust.

Qualifications

• Qualified dietitian with HCPC registration and postgrad nutrition study.
• Experience in hospital dietetics and adult nutritional care ideal.
• Ability to work in a busy inpatient setting and lead on patient care plans.

Responsibilities

• Deliver dietetic service to adult nutritional support patients across wards.
• Lead a Band 5 dietitian led clinic and provide education sessions.
• Develop and implement nutrition care plans for oral, enteral, and parenteral nutrition.

Skills

Nutritional assessment

Enteral feeding

Oral nutrition support

Multidisciplinary teamwork

CPD

Equality & inclusion awareness

Record keeping

Anthropometric methods

Audit & research

Autonomous practice

Education

BSc. or MSc. in Nutrition and Dietetics

State Registration in Dietetics (HCPC)

Postgraduate qualification in nutrition or dietetic related area

Member of BDA

Evidence of further study relevant to post

Job description

Go back Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

Dietitian

The closing date is 23 September 2026

As a newly qualified dietitian, or dietitian who wishes to gain experience within the inpatient hospital setting this is the perfect role, due to an internal secondment we have a fixed term post available.

You will deliver a service to adult nutritional support patients across our wards, in a mixture of speciality areas including Orthopaedics, general medicine, surgery, respiratory, vascular and Urology. You will work closely with experienced dietitians, learning from them and gaining an insight into the treatment of complex patients on the specialist units including Gastroenterology, Colorectal surgery and Critical care.

Main duties of the job

The caseload will include a Band 5 dietitian led clinic and opportunities to deliver staff and patient education sessions. You will provide dietetic intervention to support patients in the areas of oral nutrition support, enteral tube feeding and after training, parenteral nutrition.

You will maintain clinical responsibility for your own caseload, working with supportive dietetics assistants and will contribute to the Nutrition & Dietetic Service as a whole, through participation in service developments including audit, patient experience and resource development.

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

Learn more about us in our Candidate Information Pack (opens in existing window)

Job responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website:www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

Person Specification

Qualifications and Registration

• BSc. or MSc. in Nutrition and Dietetics Or BSc. in relevant science followed by Post Graduate Diploma or State Registration in Dietetics
• State Registered Dietitian with the HCPC
• Evidence of further study relevant to post
• Member of BDA
• Post graduate qualification in nutrition or dietetic related area of study

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Knowledge of the current best practice in clinical dietetics
• Basic competence in calculating nutritional requirements
• Knowledge of nutritional needs and nutritional assessment
• Competent to develop nutritional care plans in hospital and/or community settings
• Basic competence in assessment of Enteral feeding, use of Enteral feeding products, equipment and regimens
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels and work in multi-disciplinary teams
• Basic IT skills
• Evidence of understanding CPD
• Awareness and understanding of importance of equality, diversity and inclusion
• Ability to record keep and present information in a clear and logical manner
• Ability to work autonomously and safely within own remit
• Use and understanding of various anthropometric methods
• Experience of team working
• Audit and research awareness and skills

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.

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