Job summary
- Main area
- Nutrition & Dietetics
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 318-25-Training2
- Employer
- Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Gloucestershire Royal Hospital
- Town
- Gloucester
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 (pro rata if part time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Dietitian - Band 5
Band 5
Join us at an exciting time for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust! We have recently been awarded an improved CQC rating of Good and are proud of what we’ve achieved. We have an ambitious plan for our journey to Outstanding and are looking for aspirational, committed individuals to join us, making a real difference to both staff and patients.
As a former winner of England for excellence award: Tourism destination of the year, the beautiful city of Gloucester and the scenic regency spa town of Cheltenham are fantastic places to work and live.
As a hospital Trust we are currently involved in over 100 clinical trials and studies, whilst also providing acute elective and specialist services to a population of over 620,000.
By joining Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust new colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome and a future full of opportunities and support.
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for a new graduate, (currently registered/imminently awaiting HCPC registration,) or candidates with greater experience who want to enhance their skills. This post has the potential to rotate. You may be working in acute and/or community settings to including in/outpatient clinical areas, covering acute medical or surgical with opportunities to work in critical care, Nutritional Support Team, oncology, diabetes, renal, paediatrics’ or home enteral feeding. We offer preceptorship framework to help and guide you into your new position.
Based at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital or Cheltenham General Hospital you will be supported by band 6 and 7 Dietitians.
This role provides a great start, or development, of your dietetic career. We are a large, friendly department offering experience in many areas to enable you to progress into the area of dietetics that you choose to pursue.
See the full job description attached for further details, informal enquiries are very welcome.
Main duties of the job
Experienced within the NHS on all aspects of adult nutrition support, sip feeds and enteral feeds is essential.
We are looking for looking for excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening alongside excellent verbal communication skills including active listening skills.
You will need to work as part of a team and liaise with professional at all levels, to prioritise your workload be flexible and assertive.
Working for our organisation
We are a large friendly department based on 2 sites; Cheltenham General Hospital (CGH) & Gloucestershire Royal Hospital (GRH).
Within the department at GRH we have a team of Renal Dietitians, Paediatric Dietitians plus a Home Enteral Feed Team. At CGH we have a team of Oncology Dietitians plus the Acute team. We also have a Nutrition Team, a Specialist Gastroenterology Team and Specialist Diabetes dietitians working on both hospital sites.
Gloucestershire is a great area of the country in which to live in with many areas of outstanding natural beauty, as well as excellent transport networks to the rest of the country.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be directly responsible to the Team Lead/Advanced Practitioner for Nutritional Support and based on either the Gloucester or Cheltenham site. You will be working to deliver, planning and monitoring high quality nutritional care and education to patients with complex nutrition support needs to inpatients, outpatients or within the home dependent on which specialist team you are based in.
You will be actively involved in the supervision, education and development of designated Band 5 staff and also contribute to the training of A, B & C students each year.
For further details please contact June Beharry Lead Dietitian GRH or Fiona Brown Lead Dietitian CGH 0300 422 5506
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree in nutrition and dietetics HCPC
- Registered with HCPC
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of CPD since registration
- Attendance on relevant accredited courses
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience working in NHS
- Ability to problem solve.
- Evidence of excellent verbal and written communication skills including active listening skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening, caring and empathy skills and can relate well to staff and patients.
- Able to travel to other hospital sites and community locations.
- Evidence of successful clinical experience in NHS being autonomous practitioner and able to act on own initiative
- Experience of effectively maintain working relationship within a team
- Experience within the NHS in adult oral nutrition and enteral nutrition support
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lisa Boon
- Job title
- Resources Assistant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 422 6623
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