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The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
About
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Contact
- Address
- Royal Victoria Infirmary
- Queen Victoria Road
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Tyne and Wear
- NE1 4LP
- Contact Number
- 0191 282 0999 option 2
Specialist Dietitian (Community)
Accepting applications until: 28-Jun-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 28-Jun-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Regent Point
- Tref
- 317 Regent Point
- Cod post
- NE3 3HD
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Oriau
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday -Friday 8.30a.m-4.30p.m)
Salary
- Cyflog
- £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (Band 6)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- 317 Nutrition Community Contracts
- Dyddiad y cyfweliad
- 14/07/2026
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.
With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.
As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
Are you a Dietitian with a keen interest in the area of specialist weight management? Would you enjoy the opportunity to work with patients both 1:1 and in groups, to provide dietetic support to adults living with complex obesity. If yes, our Nutrition and Dietetics team would like to offer you the opportunity to join a friendly, supportive, well- established community team on a permanent basis, as a full-time (37.5hrs/week) Band 6 Specialist Dietitian.
- Interview Date: 14 July 2026
- 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
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Within this role you will work alongside the lead weight management dietitian and multidisciplinary team (including medic, psychologists, dietetic staff, pharmacist and a physio). The team is currently evolving, new funding enabling more prescription of anti-obesity drugs. it is essential you enjoy participating in effective multidisciplinary teamwork. Within the role, you will also have an opportunity to deliver group education to the cardiac rehab service.
In addition to excellent communication skills, candidates should be organised and self-motivated to organise own workload across out- patient and community settings. Candidates should have experience, knowledge, and skills in supporting behaviour change, delivering group education and different counselling methods e.g., motivational interviewing.
Newcastle Nutrition is privileged to have good support from dietetic support workers and administrative staff. Also, great connections with other specialist dietetics teams, within the Newcastle acute hospitals and the primary care networks. You will also be supported by the manager of the community dietetics team and head of service. We are also committed to training A, B and C dietetic students (currently from Leeds Beckett and Newcastle Universities) and the successful candidate will be required to supervise students. The team is committed to supporting staff development and encourages research, audit and CPD opportunities.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:
- Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
- Freeman Hospital
- Newcastle Dental Hospital
- Cramlington Manor Walks
- Urgent treatment centres
- Newcastle Fertility Centre
- Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
- Northern Genetics Service
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
The post holder will join the 22plus-strong community team, based in modern offices at Regent Point in Gosforth. You will be required to work at locations across Newcastle; A car driver is essential for this post and there is a requirement to carry teaching resources and set up community rooms for education sessions including arranging bariatric chairs and setting up scales. Agile/flex working is supported by issue of mobile kit (laptop). Newcastle Hospitals is a paperlite hospital and as such our community service uses electronic patient records (Systm 1).
The post holder will be required to:
- Organise and deliver a high-quality dietetic service to patients in community settings ( car driver is required)
- Maintain high standards of record keeping and professionalism in line with HCPC standards
- Have a keen interest and experience in community dietetics.
- Adaptable to seeing patients both 1:1 and in groups, utilising face:face, tel modes of communication
- Deliver education and training to staff and students as required
- Participate in team and multi-disciplinary audit, research and service improvement work
- Attend and participate in MDT meetings and dietetic meetings
- Ensure compliance with our clinical governance framework and trust values. You will work in a manner which motivates colleagues, champions service user safety, dignity and drives continuous self and service improvement.
You should be enthusiastic and self-motivated and will:
- Have a broad knowledge of general dietetics and evidence of continuous professional development
- Be able to communicate well to both patients, students, and other health professionals.
- Have an interest in facilitating group education.
- Overall have experience of or an interest to develop more advanced communication skills to aid behaviour change.
- Have basic keyboard skills
- Be flexible, able to prioritise work and meet deadline
Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form
All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Health and Care Professions Council Registered Dietitian
- Degree in Dietetics or Science/Nutrition Degree plus Postgraduate Diploma in Dietetics.
- Evidence of specialist training through short courses or a validated qualification in one of more specialist areas of dietetics e.g. nutrition support, paediatrics, home enteral feeding, supplementary Prescriber (Non-medical prescribing course V300)
- UK Valid Driving Licence
Knowledge & Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Post registration employment in general clinical dietetics
- Evidence of participation in and contribution to audits
- Evidence in CPD
Meini prawf dymunol
- Basic training in counselling and/or motivational interviewing or cognitive behavioural therapy
- Basic Food Hygiene
- Experience in student training
- Experience of working with wider multidisciplinary team towards a shared purpose/goa
- Proficient use of Electronic Patient Records
Skills & Abilities
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Clinical Supervisory Skills Course and/or Teaching Certificate
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office applications
- Good interpersonal skills
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Nicola Carruthers
- Teitl y swydd
- Lead Dietitian Specialist
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 0191 2823557
- Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais
Alternatively: Team Manager Rachel Skinner, same number as above.
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