Specialist Dietitian

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust; Derby; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking dedicated individuals to join their dietetic services team at Derby hospitals. Roles will focus on delivering specialist care in community settings and support patients undergoing bariatric procedures. Candidates will benefit from development opportunities and a supportive work culture, fostering professional growth and wellbeing.

Benefits

Employee assistance programme

Discounted gym membership

Onsite fitness classes

Leadership development opportunities

Qualifications

• Must be a Registered Dietitian with experience in various dietary services.
• Experience in community and bariatric services is advantageous.
• Strong interpersonal skills to provide effective patient support.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist dietetic care within community and home enteral feeding services.
• Participate in nutritional counselling for bariatric surgery patients.
• Engage in research and service development activities.

Skills

Nutritional counselling

Clinical assessment

Patient support

Education

Registered Dietitian

Job description

We are looking for individuals who are committed to working within our dietetic services at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton. The posts available will provide specialist care within our Community, Home Enteral Feeding, Stroke Rehabilitation and Bariatric services. The specific mix of these areas will be determined and offered based on candidate skills and preferences, and the roles will be based at our Derby sites - Royal Derby Hospital and Florence Nightingale Community Hospital.

We are a socially inclusive department, committed to empowering staff, with a key emphasis on wellbeing and positive team culture.

Our community and home enteral feeding dietetic services offer high quality care to adult patients with a range of clinical conditions. We support care predominantly in the outpatient setting but also cover an element of inpatient work, within rehabilitation environments where a seamless transition, particularly for enterally fed patients is vital. We offer support to GP's and care homes and have close working relationships with many other healthcare professionals. We also offer home visits for our most vulnerable patients.

Our bariatric dietetic service provides the dietetic management of patients with morbid obesity referred for weight management and Bariatric surgery. We work interactively as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team within a specialist Bariatric unit. The role will require you to provide nutritional counselling and support to patients in preparation for and following bariatric surgical procedures such as Sleeve gastrectomy, Roux en Y gastric bypass and one anastomosis gastric bypass.

The UHDB Dietetic team strongly encourages research and audit, and there will be opportunities to participate in both this and service development. There are also many opportunities for personal progression available, including leadership training.

We have an established training programme for student dietitians and apprenticeships with Coventry, Nottingham and Sheffield universities.

Closing date of applications: 24 June 2025

Interview date: 8 July 2025

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, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
  
  

Key Facts

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a 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.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Stephanie Owen Job title: Community Dietetic Team Lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01332 258214

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