Specialist Dietitian

The closing date is 25th Oct 2026

Job summary

Are you a passionate Dietitian looking to make a meaningful impact in mental health? Join our inpatient mental health team at Parklands Hospital, where you'll have the opportunity to support service users with complex needs, champion recovery-focused care, and help shape the future of dietetic provision within our acute mental health pathway.

Working alongside a skilled and supportive multidisciplinary team including Psychology, Occupational Therapy, Nursing, Psychiatry and other Allied Health Professionals, you'll play a vital role in improving both physical and mental wellbeing. This is an exciting opportunity to develop innovative approaches, influence service development, and be part of a team committed to delivering compassionate, trauma-informed and evidence-based care.

Come and make a difference where nutrition can change lives.

This is a part time role for 22.5 hours per week

For more information, please contact Joan Co (Physiotherapist and inpatient AHP Therapy Manager) at 02382317715 or email at [email protected] to talk things through or head over for a visit.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

Provide a specialist dietetic service to adults receiving inpatient mental health care, undertaking comprehensive nutritional assessments and developing evidence-based, person-centred treatment plans for individuals with complex mental and physical health needs. Manage and prioritise a specialist caseload, delivering effective interventions, reviews and discharge planning in line with professional and organisational standards.

Deliver specialist nutritional advice and treatment for service users with malnutrition, obesity, eating disorders, disordered eating, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and medication-related weight changes.

Work autonomously and collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team, contributing specialist expertise to assessments, care planning, risk management, ward rounds and discharge processes. Liaise with carers, community services and external agencies to ensure coordinated care and effective transitions between services.

Deliver training and education to staff, carers and service users, and provide supervision and assessment of Dietetic students. Participate in service development, clinical audit, quality improvement and research activities. Maintain professional registration, undertake continuing professional development, and ensure compliance with safeguarding, information governance, health and safety, infection prevention and equality and diversity requirements.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job description

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

Degree/post Graduate Diploma in Nutrition and Dietetics

HCPC Registration.

Desirable

Advance Diploma of Dietetics

Evidence of Continuing Professional Development portfolio

Experience

Essential

Comprehensive post registration experience including evidence of experience in catering, providing training for staff/carer and running group sessions with service users.

Experience of working with eating disorder cases either in a community setting or in-patient

Experience of providing supervision to other colleagues/professionals

Desirable

Experience of working with mental health and learning disability within a clinical settings

Formal training in communication skills e.g.

Talking Mats, Motivational Interviewing or

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Additional Criteria

Essential

Risk management

Reflective Practice

Ability to analyse professional and ethical issues

Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance

Ability to organise and respond efficiently to complex information

Computer literacy

Ability to build effective working relationships

Knowledge of mental health legislation and current practice

Detailed knowledge of the principles of clinical governance and its application

Ability to work creatively with patients to support engagement

Ability to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy demonstrating positive communication skills

Desirable

Practical application of evidenced-based practice

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.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

For help with your application, contact:

Joan Co

[email protected]

02382317715

Pay scheme

Agenda for Change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£39959.00 to £48117.00 Yearly

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-Time

Reference number

348-MNH-12814

Job locations

Parklands Hospital
Aldermaston Road
Basingstoke
Hampshire
RG24 9RH