Rotational Community Dietitian

NHS; Derby; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in Derby is offering an exciting opportunity for a Rotational Community Dietitian to join their community dietetic team. This role provides a variety of experiences across specialties such as Diabetes and Renal, alongside a preceptorship program. The successful candidate will manage a diverse caseload and contribute to student training initiatives. Ideal for motivated individuals seeking to start their career in Dietetics with a flexible hybrid working model.

Benefits

Development opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Discounted gym membership

Onsite fitness classes

Car schemes

Qualifications

• Must hold a Nutrition and Dietetics qualification and HCPC registration.
• Experience across adult services during clinical placements is essential.
• Must have NHS experience and be a BDA member.

Responsibilities

• Deliver dietetic services to residents of Southern Derbyshire.
• Manage a caseload of various clinical conditions.
• Involve in training dietetic students and service development projects.

Skills

Effective planning, time management and organisational skills

IT Skills

Car Driver

Education

Nutrition and Dietetics qualification

HCPC registration

BDA Member

NHS experience

Job description

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Rotational Community Dietitian

The closing date is 28 September 2025

Are you a newly qualified Dietitian or due to be finishing your student training this year, or a Dietitian waiting for HCPC registration or returning to practice?

We have an exciting opportunity for 2 individuals to work in community dietetics and gain specialist experience in the field of Diabetes, Bariatrics, Renal or Nutrition Support.

The Community Dietetic service are offering rotational posts alongside a 12-month preceptorship programme provided by the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton to help you achieve confidence within your band 5 role.

One day a week you will be able to work with our Diabetes/Bariatrics/Renal/Nutrition Support dietetic teams to have experience in a specialist field early in your career.

The post will be based at Florence Nightingale Hospital within the community dietetic team and one day a week within the Royal Derby Hospital acute hospital.

We are able to provide a bus pass for travel between sites. As a department we are able to offer individuals hybrid working delivering services face to face, virtually and by telephone.

Your clinical caseload will be a variety of clinics, community hospitals, care homes and training. You will have the opportunity to work with a variety of clinical conditions including malnutrition, mental health, IBS, diabetes, bariatrics and renal.

This would be an ideal role for a highly motivated individual looking for a wide variety of experience for their first role in Dietetics

Main duties of the job

You will be working as part of the Community Dietetic team, where you will be delivering dietetic services to the residents of Southern Derbyshire. You will be managing a caseload, consisting of a variety of clinical conditions.

We deliver high quality student training to Sheffield Hallam University and Nottingham University, you will be involved in the training of new dietetic students. We also have exciting opportunities for experience in service development, audits and projects.

You will be expected to work and train alongside the wider MDT, deliver training and education to a variety of patients and health care professionals. You will be able to learn from specialists within dietetics to help get early access to a specialism.

Interview date: 10 October 2025

About us

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
• On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts about our Trust:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments per day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.

Job responsibilities

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Your application (for shortlisting purposes) is assessed based on the Person Specification in the job advert (below).

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Nutrition and Dietetics qualification
• HCPC registration
• BDA Member
• NHS experience

Experience

• A range of clinical experience across adult services during clinical placements
• Experience of delegating work to non-registered staff
• Experience of working in multidisciplinary / multiprofessional teams

Skills

• Effective planning, time management and organisational skills
• IT Skills
• Car Driver

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.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust