Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Community Dietitian
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Band 5 Dietitian
This exciting, varied Band 5 Dietitian post offers the opportunity to develop a broad range of clinical skills across a varied and diverse community caseload. The successful candidate will provide nutritional care in a range of settings, including outpatient clinics, virtual community inpatient wards, and patients' own homes. The role also includes delivering group education on weight management and diabetes.
This role would be ideal for a newly qualified Dietitian or for an existing band 5 Dietitian wanting to expand their experience within a supportive and innovative service.
We are a mobile working service and offer our patients the choice of face-to-face, virtual, and phone appointments as well as home visits. To support this, we have excellent IT access and support staff home-working where appropriate.
As a team, we strongly value continuing professional development and offer an employee-led appraisal process and personal development plan. We will support you to develop your ideas for research and audit and offer collaboration and training with our Research & Development and Clinical Effectiveness teams. We also engage in student training and facilitate teaching opportunities.
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We are looking for enthusiastic, skilled, and committed dietitians to join this forward-thinking team.
Responsibilities
- Working under the guidance of the Team Lead Dietitian, to provide dietetic care to a varied and diverse caseload of patients in the community as outlined above.
- Travelling to and providing care at various sites including but not limited to community hospitals, patients’ homes, nursing homes, GP practices, and some home working.
- Delivering a proportion of care using online platforms e.g. OneConsultation, MS Teams, and Webex.
- Delivering diabetes and weight management education groups.
- Supporting our Dietetic learners.
- Mentoring Dietetic Assistant Practitioners.
- Involvement in departmental research activity and quality improvement project work.
- Contribute to service improvement conversations in dedicated meetings.
About Us
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
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Our Values
- Caring for and about you is our top priority.
- Committed to providing good quality, safe services.
- Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions.
Benefits
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
- Flexible working options to support work-life balance.
- 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell.
- Generous NHS pension scheme.
- Excellent learning and career development opportunities.
- ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles.
- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services.
- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants.
- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment, and armed forces community to support equality.
- Generous maternity, paternity, adoption, and special leave.
- Free parking across Trust sites.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Tina Howe
- Job title: Dietetic Clinical Lead for Nutrition Support
- Email address: tina.howe@berkshire.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07717432859
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