Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Surgical Dietitian

The closing date is 10 July 2025

Job summary

Frimley Health Foundation Trust is seeking a motivated and experienced Band 6 Senior Surgical Dietitian for a part-time, 7 month fixed-term position until March 2026. Based at Wexham Park Hospital, the post-holder will work within the acute adult team, covering surgical wards and managing a caseload of complex medical and respiratory patients.

Working alongside a Band 7 Surgical Dietitian, you will provide comprehensive oral, enteral, and parenteral nutrition support. This role offers an excellent opportunity to further develop your expertise in surgical and medical dietetics, particularly in areas such as parenteral nutrition.

You will be an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team, contributing to clinical governance, delivering training to healthcare professionals, and collaborating with dietetic colleagues across the Trust. The post also includes opportunities to raise the profile of dietetics within the surgical department and contribute to service development.

Frimley Health's dietetic team is a supportive and well-established department covering 12 specialties. The Trust places high value on wellbeing, supervision, and professional development, offering a positive and collaborative work environment with access to internal and external learning opportunities.

Main duties of the job

  • To provide assessment, treatment and management of surgical and complex medical inpatients
  • To provide an effective high-quality service to all in and outpatients
  • To act as a specialist resource for the medical/surgical team and Dietitians with Wexham Park Hospital
  • To be responsible for service development, implement policy and policy changes and to set and monitor standards of practice
  • To undertake evidence-based projects, including recommendations and to develop audit and research in this area
  • To be flexible in times of increased capacity to the service

About us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital servicesforaround 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other,Committed to Excellence,WorkingTogether and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.

Details

Date posted

03 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£23,525 to £28,250 a year per annum incl HCAS

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

7 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

151-NM91

Job locations

Wexham Park Hospital

Wexham Street

Slough

SL2 4HL


Job description

Job responsibilities

To be involved with the advanced assessment, treatment and management of complex patients on the medical and surgical caseload and service development within these areas. Please refer to attached job description for further details.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To be involved with the advanced assessment, treatment and management of complex patients on the medical and surgical caseload and service development within these areas. Please refer to attached job description for further details.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • oRecognised degree or post graduate diploma in nutrition and dietetics or equivalent
  • oHCPC registration
  • oMember of BDA

Desirable

  • oAttendance at student supervision training
  • oAttendance of relevant accredited courses

Experience

Essential

  • oPost registration clinical dietetic experience in NHS
  • oExperience of nutrition risk scoring
  • oExperienced in all aspects of adult nutrition support - sip feeds and tube feeds
  • oExperience in parenteral nutrition
  • oExperience of discharging patients from hospital on home enteral feeds

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

  • oGood organisational skills
  • oGood time management
  • oEvidence of training professionals in formal and informal settings
  • oExcellent computer skills: Microsoft Office - Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel for data inputting

Desirable

  • oSome basic management skills
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • oRecognised degree or post graduate diploma in nutrition and dietetics or equivalent
  • oHCPC registration
  • oMember of BDA

Desirable

  • oAttendance at student supervision training
  • oAttendance of relevant accredited courses

Experience

Essential

  • oPost registration clinical dietetic experience in NHS
  • oExperience of nutrition risk scoring
  • oExperienced in all aspects of adult nutrition support - sip feeds and tube feeds
  • oExperience in parenteral nutrition
  • oExperience of discharging patients from hospital on home enteral feeds

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

  • oGood organisational skills
  • oGood time management
  • oEvidence of training professionals in formal and informal settings
  • oExcellent computer skills: Microsoft Office - Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel for data inputting

Desirable

  • oSome basic management skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Wexham Park Hospital

Wexham Street

Slough

SL2 4HL


Employer's website

https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Wexham Park Hospital

Wexham Street

Slough

SL2 4HL


Employer's website

https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Principal Dietitian

Hannah Garguilo

hannah.garguilo@nhs.net

03006153232

Details

Date posted

03 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£23,525 to £28,250 a year per annum incl HCAS

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

7 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

151-NM91

Job locations

Wexham Park Hospital

Wexham Street

Slough

SL2 4HL


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