Community Dietitian

East Berkshire Community Dietetic Service based in Windsor has an opportunity to offer a permanent Band 5 Clinical Dietitian role.
The post holder will be covering a varied and diverse community caseload, including outpatient clinics, community inpatient wards, paediatric triage, patients requiring nutritional support or enteral nutrition in nursing homes and their own homes and diabetes education. An interest in developing skills in specialist dietetic areas/treatments such as paediatrics, HEN and FODMAPs would be an advantage to applicants looking for progression to band 6 roles.
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.
We are looking for enthusiastic, skilled and committed dietitians to join this forward-thinking team.
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 education groups
Supporting our student training programme
M entoring Dietetic Assistant Practitioners (DAPs)
Involvement in departmental research activity and quality improvement project work
Contribute to service improvement conversations in dedicated meetings
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.
**Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are**:
Caring for and about you is our top priority
Committed to providing good quality, safe services
Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
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
**The “must haves” for this role**:
Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics
Registered with Health Care Professionals Council and full BDA membership
Experience of working in acute/community setting as a dietitian or dietetic learner/ student.
Ability to prioritise workload and work flexibly - travelling to multiple sites is often required
Ability to work from home at time with access to W i F i using equipment provided by BHFT
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.