Dietitian | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 21 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £38,682 - £46,580 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 December 2025 |
| Location: | Ipswich, IP4 5PD |
| Company: | Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7634711/432-HR925-25 |
Summary
We are looking for self-motivated, committed Dietitian to provide a quality dietetic service to the Ipswich and East Suffolk population.
Being a key player you will work with both adults and children managing a a caseload of nutritionally vulnerable adults and children within the inpatient and outpatient settings including but not restricted to the acute hospital, outpatients and community settings.
Your caseload will include mental health patients and those patients with disordered eating. You will benefit from working with other specialist dietitians as well as being responsible for day to day supervision of assistant practitioners.
A range of skills are required for this post, including excellent communication skills and the ability to manage a busy workload. You should be someone who enjoys working within a team and is eager to provide support to others.
The Team consists of 26 Dietitians with 6 Dietetic Support Staff providing a service to both acute and community settings.
Supported by secretarial and administrative staff you will have access to regular supervision and opportunities to undertake continuing professional development through work shadowing, tutorials and courses as identified by your training needs and objectives.
We are a well- recognised department for student training in partnership with the University of Hertfordshire.
The trust is also committed with AHP research and has recently gained resource to support this within the trust.
To manage a caseload of patients including those with complex needs in a range of settings using evidence-based, client-centred principles to assess, plan and evaluate specialised dietetic interventions.
To undertake nutritional assessments within paediatrics, taking into consideration biochemistry, anthropometrics, growth, clinical condition and dietary intake.
To work with patients and carers to identify nutrition related goals as part of an overall care plan.
To plan, implement and evaluate interventions in partnership with patients and carers using a range of treatment techniques to meet individual’s nutritional requirements.
To participate in patient care meetings to ensure that dietetic outcomes influence any decision regarding overall care plan.
To provide support, education and advice to patients and carers regarding aspects of diet therapy e.g. dietary modification, food fortification, nutritional supplementation, enteral nutrition.
One of the largest Trusts in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.
To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
Find out about living and working with us - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A
Please contact Helen Gould or Catherine Dyson Professional lead for Dietetics helen.gould@esneft.nhs.uk / Catherine.dyson@esneft.nhs.uk or Lindsey Mowles Paediatric Team Lead lindsey.mowles@esneft.nhs.uk or call 01473 704000 with any queries.
This advert closes on Friday 5 Dec 2025