Specialist Dietitian

Job summary

We are looking for individuals who are committed to working within our dietetic services at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton. The posts available will provide specialist care within our Community, Home Enteral Feeding, Stroke Rehabilitation and Bariatric services. The specific mix of these areas will be determined and offered based on candidate skills and preferences, and the roles will be based at our Derby sites - Royal Derby Hospital and Florence Nightingale Community Hospital.

We are a socially inclusive department, committed to empowering staff, with a key emphasis on wellbeing and positive team culture.

Main duties of the job

Our community and home enteral feeding dietetic services offer high quality care to adult patients with a range of clinical conditions. We support care predominantly in the outpatient setting but also cover an element of inpatient work, within rehabilitation environments where a seamless transition, particularly for enterally fed patients is vital. We offer support to GP's and care homes and have close working relationships with many other healthcare professionals. We also offer home visits for our most vulnerable patients.

Our bariatric dietetic service provides the dietetic management of patients with morbid obesity referred for weight management and Bariatric surgery. We work interactively as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team within a specialist Bariatric unit. The role will require you to provide nutritional counselling and support to patients in preparation for and following bariatric surgical procedures such as Sleeve gastrectomy, Roux en Y gastric bypass and one anastomosis gastric bypass.

The UHDB Dietetic team strongly encourages research and audit, and there will be opportunities to participate in both this and service development. There are also many opportunities for personal progression available, including leadership training.

We have an established training programme for student dietitians and apprenticeships with Coventry, Nottingham and Sheffield universities.

Closing date of applications: 24 June 2025

Interview date: 8 July 2025

About us

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Florence Nightingale Community Hospital

London Road

Derby

DE1 2QY

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Florence Nightingale Community Hospital

London Road

Derby

DE1 2QY

Employer's website

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

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