Senior Dietitian

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

The closing date is 28 April 2025

Job summary

An exciting opportunity to join our innovative and dynamic eating disorders service for children & young people in Northamptonshire.

We are looking for an experienced dietitian who has experience of working with children and young people with eating disorders and has knowledge of ARFID and appropriate dietetic interventions and strategies.

We strive to support and develop our staff and are committed to working together to improve the future of our service, not only for patients and carers, but also for our staff. You will have access to clinical supervision within the dietetic team and the wider CEDS MDT.

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) has been rated "Outstanding" by the CQC in our last two inspections. If you have what it takes to help us to continue to be Outstanding and beyond please apply to this exciting opportunity, which is not to be missed

Main duties of the job

You will be working as an autonomous practitioner, will have excellent dietetic assessment skills and be able to create dietetic interventions that are linked into the wider MDT care plans. You will be involved in developing care pathways, will work closely with the MDT to improve patient care and experience, be passionate about behaviour change approaches and lead on service improvement projects. You will have excellent communication skills and the ability to use different approaches flexibly to meet the needs of our patients and promote engagement. The caseload will be challenging but management approaches will be shared and discussed with the MDT.

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.

Date posted

14 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year pa pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working

Reference number

270-TF832-ACS-A

Job locations

The Brambles

Kent Road

Northampton

NN5 4GL

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Education

Essential

Registered Dietician
Evidence of post registration training

Desirable

Degree level post training

Experience

Essential

At least 12 months experience as a B6 dietician
Evidence of experience of working with eating disorders, disordered eating and ARFID
Passion for working with children, young people and families.
Experience in paediatric dietetics

Person Specification

Education

Essential

Registered Dietician
Evidence of post registration training

Desirable

Degree level post training

Experience

Essential

At least 12 months experience as a B6 dietician
Evidence of experience of working with eating disorders, disordered eating and ARFID
Passion for working with children, young people and families.
Experience in paediatric dietetics

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.