Dietitian

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking a Band 6 Dietitian to join their Specialist Adult Eating Disorder Service in Stoke-on-Trent. The successful candidate will provide expert dietetic assessments and develop treatment plans for patients with a variety of clinical presentations. This full-time role entails working independently and supervising junior staff while ensuring effective communication with all related agencies. The position offers a salary between £38,682 and £46,580 pro-rata, per annum.

Benefits

Flexible working

Wellness opportunities

Responsibilities

• Conduct specialist dietetic assessments of patients with diverse presentations.
• Develop, deliver, and adapt individualised dietetic treatment programmes.
• Plan and organise caseloads for self and junior staff.

Skills

Understanding of complex mental health problems

Education

Degree in nutrition and dietetics or equivalent

Job description

Dietitian

The closing date is 04 January 2026

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare are looking to recruit a Band 6 Dietitian to work in the Specialist Adult Eating Disorder Service.

37.5 hours per week - full time.

You will provide a specialist dietetic assessment of patients with diverse clinical presentation and pathology to determine a clinical diagnosis, provide treatment via therapeutic interventions as indicated and develop effective treatment plans.

Main duties of the job

• To work as an autonomous practitioner to perform a specialist dietetic assessment of patients with diverse presentations.
• To use clinical reasoning to provide a diagnosis and develop, deliver and adapt individualised dietetic treatment programmes.
• To be responsible for organising and planning own and junior member of staff's caseloads, meet service and patient priorities, readjust plans as situations or changes arise and provide specialist dietetic reports as requested.

About us

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves on ensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first ‘carbon net zero’ national health system by 2045. As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under‑represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.

Job responsibilities

• To identify and carry out Clinic reviews and Home Visits in accordance with Trust and Professional standards and to assess patient condition and suitability for discharge and, where appropriate, supervise dietitians and dietetic assistants in these tasks.
• To implement monitoring and evaluation of treatment in order to measure progress and outcomes to ensure effectiveness of interventions and service delivery.
• To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work and that of supervised dietitians and assistants, and hold responsibility for own caseload for a specialist area of the service, working without direct supervision.
• To develop robust effective communication with all CWP staff and other relevant agencies (i.e. GPs and other medical staff, nursing staff, social care staff, carers and users, etc.) and support junior and assistant staff to communicate effectively.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree in nutrition and dietetics or equivalent.

Experience

Experience information not provided.

Knowledge

• Demonstrates an understanding of complex mental health problems.

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.

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust

£38,682 to £46,580 a year Pro‑rata, per annum