Highly Specialist Dietitian

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Knowsley; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health services organization in Knowsley is seeking skilled dietitians to enhance nutrition-related prescribing interventions across primary and secondary care. Candidates will have responsibilities in strategy development, patient care, and collaboration with various stakeholders. The ideal candidates will have specialist knowledge in nutrition, strong leadership skills, and be adaptable in a dynamic healthcare environment. The position includes the opportunity for remote or hybrid working, contributing to quality care across the Cheshire and Merseyside area.

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and forward-thinking professionals familiar with nutrition support and optimization.
• Experience in dietetic clinical pathways and nutrition related prescribing.
• Specialist knowledge in areas such as paediatrics, diabetes, and gastroenterology.

Responsibilities

• Conduct data-driven analysis on clinical and prescribing data for nutritional products.
• Develop long-term strategies for nutrition related prescribing.
• Deliver educational sessions to various stakeholders on best practices.
• Conduct individual patient assessments within your scope.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the care interface.

Skills

Communication skills

Leadership skills

Analytical skills

Specialist knowledge in nutrition

Flexibility and adaptability

Job description

We are excited to offer opportunities for highly skilled dietitians to join our collaborative team, leading nutrition related prescribing interventions and pathway optimisation across primary, community and secondary care.

The initial focus will be on optimising malnutrition management across the ICB, with plans to expand into other areas of nutrition related prescribing.

This post will cover the Cheshire and Merseyside area.

Key locations

There will be three hubs across the patch:

• Liverpool, Sefton and Wirral
• East and West Cheshire
• Halton, Warrington, St Helens and Knowsley

Successful applicants will have the opportunity to preference which hub they would like to be based in. However, remote/hybrid working will mean staff will be expected to support across all areas.

Key responsibilities

• Data driven analysis: Analyse clinical and prescribing data to identify drivers of high costs in nutrition related products
• Strategy development: Co-develop sustainable, long term strategies for nutrition related prescribing and dietetic clinical pathways, including system wide formularies, policies, procedures, guidelines and pathways
• Education and training: Deliver education sessions to stakeholders - dietetic teams, medicines optimisation teams, GP practices, care homes and patients to implement best practices for nutritional care
• Patient care: Conduct individual patient assessments within your scope of practice
• Leadership and collaboration: Work closely with stakeholders across the care interface, linking with dietetic teams, medicines optimisation teams and other partners
• Adaptability: Thrive in a rapidly changing health care environment, demonstrating flexibility and a proactive approach
• Workforce development: Play a key role in educating future health care professionals, including dietetic and other health care students
• Provide care, advice, and guidance in the treatment of others, when dealing with complex highly specialist conditions
• Responsible for the delivery of identified training
• Work in partnership with the other services/stakeholder partnership agencies to enable patients/clients to be treated in the appropriate setting. This may include procurement and enteral feed contract reviews
• Ensure that the team provides a high-quality service to its patients/clients by providing caseload and clinical supervision
• Ensure the team works proactively in order to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing a responsive service to patients with both planned and unplanned care needs
• Develop partnerships and joint working with service users and stakeholders to improve patient/client care
• Work in partnership with other organisations to support the effective and co‑ordinated provision of health and social care services
• Participate in the development of caseload management across the local health economy
• Provide leadership and mentoring to those staff developing into a caseload management role
• Challenge professional and organisational boundaries to ensure that the role is focused on meeting the needs of service users
• Act as an advocate and champion for patients/clients in a variety of forums and professional groups and challenge attitudes and behaviour
• Act as a role model to others ensuring that patients receive the most effective care possible
• Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect the needs of the target population

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic, forward thinking professionals with exceptional communication, leadership and analytical skills
• Specialist knowledge in one or more areas: adults, paediatrics, nutrition support, diabetes, obesity, gastroenterology
• Experience in optimising nutrition prescribing projects is advantageous
• Flexible and adaptable, comfortable working in a dynamic health care environment

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities. At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Please refer to attached Job Description for full list of duties and responsibilities.

This advert closes on Sunday 25 Jan 2026