Specialist Dietitian

NHS Professionals Limited; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning & Development opportunities

Flexible shifts

Paid annual leave

Wellbeing resources

Job summary

NHS Professionals Limited, on behalf of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, is hiring a Specialist Dietitian to provide expert care for Type 1 diabetes in outpatient settings and deliver nutritional support across acute and community services.

You will interpret results, develop tailored dietary plans, and work with dietitians, dietetic assistants, students and the wider MDT to ensure timely discharge and high-quality patient care.

Qualifications

• HCPC-registered Dietitian with current registration.
• Member of British Dietetic Association.
• Experience in outpatient Type 1 diabetes preferred.
• Postgraduate CPD in relevant field.

Responsibilities

• Interpret biochemical results and anthropometric data to diagnose nutritional needs.
• Develop tailored dietary care plans and feeding regimens.
• Coordinate dietetic interventions across ED and short-stay wards.
• Support training and supervision of students and junior staff.
• Maintain accurate patient documentation and audit data.
• Communicate complex information to patients and carers.

Skills

Motivational interviewing

Dietary counselling

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Clinical reasoning

Nutritional assessment

Audit and training

Education

HCPC registration

BDA member

Postgraduate CPD

Type 1 diabetes outpatient experience

Job description

We havean exciting opportunity for a Specialist Dietitian at BuckinghamshireHealthcare NHS Trust to join the Dietetics Department at Stoke MandevilleHospital. You will be responsible for providing specialist dietetic care forpatients with Type 1 diabetes in outpatient settings and delivering nutritionalsupport across acute and community services to facilitate timely discharge andearly patient care. You will be managing specialised nutritional assessmentsand treatment plans for patients requiring dietetic interventions withindiabetes services, while supporting dietitians, dietetic assistants, studentdietitians, and the wider multidisciplinary team. You will also be responsiblefor maintaining and developing your clinical knowledge and practical expertisein dietetics and nutritional support to ensure high standards of patient careand effective service delivery.

Main duties of the job

As aSpecialist Dietitian, you will be responsible for interpreting biochemicalresults, anthropometric measurements, clinical findings, and dietary historiesto establish nutritional diagnoses and formulate tailored dietary care plans.You will be managing individualised feeding regimens, calculating nutritionalrequirements, and setting measurable, patient-centred goals to improve dietaryintake and clinical outcomes. You will be supporting the implementation ofdietetic interventions within Accident and Emergency and short-stay wards,helping identify nutritional concerns early and facilitating appropriatetreatment. You will also be responsible for applying specialist clinicaljudgement when determining suitable interventions for patients with complexneeds, coordinating care plans with relevant healthcare professionals, andcontributing to a seamless approach to patient care across different stages ofthe healthcare pathway.

About us

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges

Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave

Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want

Job responsibilities

• To usecounselling and motivational interviewing techniques to empower individuals tomake informed dietary choices and develop sustainable lifestyle habits. Toreview the effectiveness of these approaches and adapt motivational strategiesto encourage long-term adherence to recommended dietary changes.
• Tomaintain professional practice in accordance with HCPC requirements, Trustpolicies, departmental procedures, and British Dietetic Association (BDA)guidance. To remain updated on national and local standards, current clinicalevidence, and best-practice recommendations to ensure professionalaccountability and continuous improvement.
• Tooperate anthropometric equipment, including weighing and wheelchair scales,height measures, and skinfold callipers, ensuring accurate measurements andconsistent data collection. To contribute to patient care pathway developmentand collect patient contact information for audit purposes as requested by theDietetic Team Lead.
• Tomaintain accurate, timely, and accessible patient documentation in paper andelectronic formats, ensuring compliance with organisational and professionalstandards. To safeguard confidential information, follow relevant IT policies,and record service activity accurately within designated Trust systems.
• Tocommunicate complex or sensitive information to patients, carers, GPs,referrers, and other healthcare professionals using appropriate verbal,written, electronic, and visual methods. To identify and overcome communicationbarriers, provide timely progress updates, recommend onward referrals whereappropriate, and maintain effective professional relationships across healthand social care services.
• Toparticipate in service audits and relevant research projects, sharing findingswith appropriate stakeholders to support service evaluation. To identifyeducational needs, deliver and evaluate training for patients, carers, andhealthcare professionals, provide clinical supervision to placement studentsand departmental colleagues, and complete mandatory training and the Trustappraisal process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Relevant degree recognised for HCPC registration.
• HCPC-registered Dietitian and BDA member.
• Membership of a BDA Specialist Group or PENG.
• Postgraduate training or CPD in a relevant specialist field.
• Type 1 diabetes outpatient experience and documented ongoing CPD

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.