Specialist Dietitian

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Knowsley; Hybrid; GBP 33,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent health care provider in the United Kingdom is seeking skilled dietitians to enhance nutritional care across various settings. The role focuses on addressing malnutrition management and extends to collaboration with clinical teams and stakeholders. Candidates should possess strong analytical, communication, and leadership skills, with the ability to thrive in a dynamic health care environment. Flexible working requests are welcomed. This position offers opportunities for professional development and integral support within the health sector.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in optimizing nutrition prescribing projects is advantageous.
• Responsible for high-quality care to a defined caseload.
• Maintain registration with professional bodies.

Responsibilities

• Support analysis of clinical and prescribing data.
• Deliver education sessions to stakeholders.
• Conduct individual patient assessments.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the care interface.

Skills

Exceptional communication skills

Leadership skills

Analytical skills

Specialist knowledge in nutrition

Flexibility and adaptability

Education

Registered dietitian

Job description

We are excited to offer opportunities for highly skilled dietitians to join our collaborative team, leading nutrition related prescribing interventions and pathway optimisation across primary, community and secondary care.

The initial focus will be on optimising malnutrition management across the ICB, with plans to expand into other areas of nutrition related prescribing.

This post will cover the Cheshire and Merseyside area.

There will be three hubs across the patch:

• Liverpool, Sefton and Wirral
• East and West Cheshire
• Halton, Warrington, St Helens and Knowsley

Successful applicants will have the opportunity to preference which hub they would like to be based in. However, remote/hybrid working will mean staff will be expected to support across all areas.

Key responsibilities

• Data awareness: Support analysis of clinical and prescribing data to identify drivers of high costs in nutrition related products
• Education and training: Deliver education sessions to stakeholders - dietetic teams, medicines optimisation teams, GP practices, care homes and patients to implement best practices for nutritional care
• Patient care: Conduct individual patient assessments within your scope of practice
• Collaboration: Work closely with stakeholders across the care interface, linking with dietetic teams, medicines optimisation teams and other partners
• Adaptability: Thrive in a rapidly changing health care environment, demonstrating flexibility and a proactive approach
• Workforce development: Play a key role in educating future health care professionals, including dietetic and other health care students.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities. At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Qualifications and attributes

• Enthusiastic, forward thinking professionals with exceptional communication, leadership and analytical skills
• Specialist knowledge in one or more areas: adults, paediatrics, nutrition support, diabetes, obesity, gastroenterology
• Experience in optimising nutrition prescribing projects is advantageous
• Flexible and adaptable, comfortable working in a dynamic health care environment.
• Responsible for the provision of appropriate, high quality care to a defined caseload.
• Responsible for workload planning and delegation of work to other team members, taking into account competence levels.
• Undertake holistic assessments of need for the patient and family, which may be highly complex, using the appropriate model of care and evidence-based practice.
• Work in partnership with other professionals to enable patients/clients to be maintained in an appropriate environment, thus avoiding hospital admission.
• Provide advice to patients, clients, and carers on a wide range of health issues to include health promotion, lifestyle advice and health care.
• Ensure that the team provides a high-quality clinical service to its clients by participation in caseload and clinical supervision.
• In conjunction with the team leader, develop new ways of working to provide a responsive service to patients with both planned and unplanned care needs.
• Develop partnerships and joint working within other agencies as appropriate.
• Maintain registration in line with professional bodies.
• Clinically lead, direct, mentor and support the team.
• Support the team leader in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.
• Acts as an advocate and champion for patients and/or clients.
• Act as a role model to team members and students so that patients/clients receive the most effective care possible.
• Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect the needs of the local neighbourhood population.
• Participate in the development, implementation, and monitoring of the clinical team contract/objectives.

Please refer to attached Job Description for full list of duties and responsibilities.

This advert closes on Sunday 25 Jan 2026.