Specialist Community Dietitian
The closing date is 15 January 2026
Job summary
We are looking for a dietitian to join our primary care team and can offer opportunities in community and mental health inpatient areas, outpatient clinics and specialist weight management. You will be part of our primary care dietetic team but will have support from a range of clinical specialist dietitians from across Northamptonshire. We are keen to work with you to develop your knowledge and skills and can offer you a competency package to complete if your feel you are not ready for a band 6 post yet but are interested in moving to Northamptonshire. We are looking for a dietitian who is an excellent communicator, a team player, has a patient centred approach to care and keen to develop their clinical practice.
Main duties of the job
The role involves:
o Providing dietetic assessment, advice, treatment, monitoring and counselling to support behavioural change in patients who meet the referral criteria. This will be delivered through one-to-one interviews, group sessions and community-based clinics. Some of this work is now done virtually
o Autonomously managing a complex caseload and work with patients and their carers to agree patient centred care plans
o Working collaboratively with the wider multi- disciplinary health care team to ensure delivery of coordinated care and to provide specialist advice and attend case conferences, network meetings as appropriate.
o Evaluating patients' progress and collecting outcomes
o Contributing to and implementing service improvement work
o Using a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients to implement treatment plans.
o Providing advice and training to patients, carers, colleagues and other healthcare professionals to promote an understanding of the aims of dietetic treatment to ensure a consistent approach to patient care.
o Managing clinical risk within own caseload
o Inputting into the training of dietetic students and other health care professionals
About us
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
Details
Date posted
06 January 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£38,682 to £46,580 a year pa pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
270-TG628-ACS
Job locations
Highfield Clinical Education Centre
Cliftonville Road
Northampton
NN1 5BD
Employer details
Employer name
Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
Address
Highfield Clinical Education Centre
Cliftonville Road
Northampton
NN1 5BD
Employer's website
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Employer contact details
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