Specialist Dietitian - Inpatient Acute Nutrition Support

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board; Gilwern; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare institution in Wales is seeking a Dietitian to provide care for patients at Nevill Hall Hospital. The role involves attending gastroenterology clinics and engaging in team meetings. Candidates need HCPC registration and relevant experience. We offer support for professional development and flexible working hours to maintain a healthy work-life balance.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Extensive training and development opportunities

Occupational health support

Wellbeing Centre of Excellence

Qualifications

• Registration with HCPC as a dietitian is required.
• Experience in providing dietetic care to inpatients is necessary.
• Ability to adjust working hours around personal commitments.

Responsibilities

• Provide dietetic care for patients in inpatient settings at Nevill Hall Hospital.
• Attend up to two gastroenterology clinics weekly, both virtual and face-to-face.
• Participate in team meetings and access CPD opportunities.

Skills

Dietetic care

HCPC registration

Communication skills

Welsh language

Education

Degree in Dietetics

Job description

We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
Please let us know if you have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application and selection process. We will be pleased to discuss any reasonable adjustments OR SUPPORT needed. If you need any documents in a larger font or a different format (such as braille) please either contact the recruiting manager named in the job advert or alternatively contact the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board recruitment team on 01495 745805 option 3 OR EMAIL [email protected]
If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2025/2026 and will be implemented in August 2025 with arrears backdated to 1st April 2025 where applicable.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process, The postholder will also undertake some specialist work within the outpatient gastroenterology service where you will be able to develop your skills in this area, alongside receiving regular supervision., Your role will involve dietetic care of patients in the inpatient setting at Nevill Hall Hospital (NHH), alongside up to two gastroenterology clinics per week, likely to be a mixture of virtual and face to face.
You will have the support of colleagues within the Dietetic team and opportunity to join regular team meetings, accessing CPD opportunities. This specialist team has a health board wide remit and the successful post holders may be asked to cover clinical work in other health board locations.
We are a team of 30 dietitians working across the specialities of Nutrition Support, Gastroenterology, Stroke, Oncology and Diabetes and work with a team of 14 dietetic support and admin staff. We actively participate in the dietetic student training programme for Wales.
We will support your development within this role via our CPD programme and regular reviews with the relevant Lead Dietitian. Opportunity to apply for funding to complete related courses (e.g. Masters module in evidence based practice, BDA courses) is available.
Our core department hours are 8.30 - 4.30 but we work flexibly and within our guidance there will be scope for you to adjust working hours to fit around personal commitments.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply., This post requires you to have HCPC registration as a dietitian. Some existing post registration experience providing dietetic care to inpatients, including advising on enteral tube feeding, is also needed. For more detail please see attached job description and person specification.

Nevill Hall is one of the ABUHB Enhanced Local General Hospitals and provides acute inpatient care to residents of North Gwent and South Powys. Abergavenny has recently been identified as one of the best places to live in Wales, with stunning views of the Black Mountains and good train links to Hereford, Newport and Cardiff. The site takes regular step down patients from Grange University Hospital and therefore your caseload will be a mix of oral nutrition support and enteral tube feeding for patients with multiple co-morbidities, including those stepped down from the critical care centre., Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

Applications are welcome from those with limited experience. A 12-month Annex 21 Development Role will be considered for those requiring additional development time, within the role. A salary of 75% of the maximum band 6 pay scale would be applicable for those undertaking such an Annex 21 role