Senior Dietitian

HCRG Care Group; Salisbury; Sur place; GBP 40 000 - 48 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

NHS Pension

My Reward Hub discounts and cashback

Access to flexible wages and wellbeing

Résumé du poste

HCRG Care Group’s Community Dietetics Service in Wiltshire seeks an experienced Dietitian to provide specialist assessment and ongoing care for adults needing nutritional support and home enteral feeding across community settings.

You will manage your own caseload, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, and enjoy flexible working arrangements with strong CPD support and NHS Pension. Base is Wilton Health Centre with potential rotation to Chippenham depending on caseload.

Qualifications

• Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics or equivalent qualification recognised for HCPC registration.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Experience within NHS Dietetic services, including inpatient and/or outpatient settings.
• Broad dietetic experience relevant to nutritional support and enteral feeding.
• Experience using MUST or an equivalent nutrition screening tool.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Ability to communicate complex information to patients, carers, and professionals.
• Experience working effectively within multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience supervising students and supporting workforce development.
• Understanding of clinical governance, audit, and evidence-based practice.
• Good computer literacy, including electronic patient records and reporting systems.
• Full UK driving licence and ability to travel across the service area.
• Clinical supervision skills or training.
• PENG qualification or equivalent.
• Membership of the British Dietetic Association and specialist interest groups.
• Experience in service improvement and audit.
• Leadership experience or formal leadership training.

Responsabilités

• Deliver specialist dietetic assessment, treatment, and monitoring for adults requiring long-term enteral feeding within community settings.
• Assess suitability for gastrostomy feeding and coordinate care with multidisciplinary teams.
• Interpret and communicate complex nutritional interventions and feeding regimens.
• Advise healthcare professionals on enteral feeding equipment, tube care, stoma care, and nutritional management.
• Participate in the development of clinical policies, pathways, and evidence-based practice guidance.
• Maintain clinical records in accordance with HCPC, BDA, Information Governance, and local standards.
• Monitor clinical outcomes and contribute to performance reporting requirements.
• Support the delivery of safe, effective, and cost-efficient community nutrition services.

Connaissances

Verbal communication

Written communication

Presentation skills

Teamwork

Professional development

Formation

Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics

PENG qualification or equivalent

Membership of the British Dietetic Association

Description du poste

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£39,959 - £48,117 FTE with Afc terms and conditions and NHS Pension

Weekly contracted hours:

22.5

Location:

Salisbury

Closing Date:

01/11/2026

Job Category:

HCRG - Allied Health Professionals

Service type:

Business Unit:

HCRG - BSW - Specialist

Job Introduction

Community Dietitian (Home Enteral Feeding and Nutritional Support)

We are looking to recruit an experienced and motivated Dietitian to join our Community Dietetics Service in Wiltshire. The post holder will provide specialist nutritional assessment, intervention, and monitoring for adults requiring nutritional support and home enteral feeding across community settings.

The successful candidate will manage their own caseload and work closely with specialist dietitians, dietetic assistants, and multidisciplinary colleagues to deliver evidence-based, patient-centred care. The role is supported by experienced clinical leadership, comprehensive administrative support, and a strong commitment to continuing professional development. Flexible working arrangements are available to support employee wellbeing and work-life balance.

Base: Wilton Health Centre, with the option to be based at Chippenham Community Hospital depending on the geographical distribution of the caseload.

Hours:22.5 hours per week

Package Description

As a Community Dietitian you will be part of our valued team in our Adult Dietetics Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £39,959 - £48,117 FTE (Band 6 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Deliver specialist dietetic assessment, treatment, and monitoring for adults requiring long-term enteral feeding within community settings.
• Assess suitability for gastrostomy feeding and coordinate care with multidisciplinary teams.
• Interpret and communicate complex nutritional interventions and feeding regimens.
• Advise healthcare professionals on enteral feeding equipment, tube care, stoma care, and nutritional management.
• Participate in the development of clinical policies, pathways, and evidence-based practice guidance.
• Maintain clinical records in accordance with HCPC, BDA, Information Governance, and local standards.
• Monitor clinical outcomes and contribute to performance reporting requirements.
• Support the delivery of safe, effective, and cost-efficient community nutrition services.

Person Specification

• Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics or equivalent qualification recognised for HCPC registration.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Experience within NHS Dietetic services, including inpatient and/or outpatient settings.
• Broad dietetic experience relevant to nutritional support and enteral feeding.
• Experience using MUST or an equivalent nutrition screening tool.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Ability to communicate complex information to patients, carers, and professionals.
• Experience working effectively within multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience supervising students and supporting workforce development.
• Understanding of clinical governance, audit, and evidence-based practice.
• Good computer literacy, including electronic patient records and reporting systems.
• Full UK driving licence and ability to travel across the service area.
• Clinical supervision skills or training.
• PENG qualification or equivalent.
• Membership of the British Dietetic Association and specialist interest groups.
• Experience in service improvement and audit.
• Leadership experience or formal leadership training.

For full details of the role,responsibilities, and person specification, please refer to the attached JobDescription.

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do .

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone .

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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Get In Touch

To find out more about this opportunity, please contact Kwunita Munday at [e-mail] or Hannah Gallacher at [e-mail] for an informal discussion before applying.