Band 5 Community Dietitian Nutrition Support | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 27 Ionawr 2026 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £31,049 - £37,796 per annum (pro rata) |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 26 Chwefror 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Birmingham, B13 8JL |
| Cwmni: | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7732829/820-7732829-ASR |
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This post is open to applicants who are qualified Dietitians who hold current registration with the Health Care Professions Council in the UK or those who have recently completed their degree and are awaiting their professional registration as a Dietitian.
Have you wondered what happens to your patients once they left the hospital ward? If so, Birmingham Community Nutrition has a vacancy in our high-profile team and is looking for someone like you to help start your career and develop your skills.
This role will work across our community hospitals, with support from senior colleagues. You will support patients mainly in the areas of malnutrition and enteral feeding. Working alongside our award-winning Nutrition Nurse team to develop your enteral feeding skills. There are also opportunities to observe our other specialist teams.
Community working is its own specialism; you will develop communication, negotiation, networking and promotion skills, liaising with GPs and specialist MDTs across care sectors. As you progress there will be a high degree of autonomy in your practice and day-to-day organisation, supported by colleagues.
BCN provides a comprehensive community citywide service for the Birmingham ICB and employs over 70 staff. We support dietetic A, B & C placements from local higher education institutions.
This post is likely to involve working in all aspects of nutrition support over the period of the post. This includes working to ensure the prescribing of oral nutritional supplements is as clinically appropriate and effective as possible, providing a dietetic service to our bedded units, however nutrition support clinics and some domiciliary caseload work with supervision from a senior dietitian may be required. The post will also involve staff training around the use of MUST in a variety of settings and participation in the Trusts’ innovative work on Nutrition & Hydration.
This role will actively promote the prevention of under nutrition within a community setting.
Benefits of working for Birmingham Community Nutrition include free parking at all sites, access to IT equipment to work remotely, up to date office facilities and comprehensive admin support dedicated to the service.
The department has a structured approach to Clinical Governance and your personal development via preceptorship, annual appraisals, clinical supervision and training opportunities. Career development, flexible working and staff support are given high priority in the Trust.
Be Part of Our Team
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
Main Duties
1. To adhere to the standards of conduct, performance and ethics and the dietitians standards of proficiency of the Health Professions Council.
2. To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients within your care.
3. To be aware of your level of responsibility and accountability within the service, being guided by policies, procedures and the support of peers.
4. To remain aware of the limitation of own knowledge and experience and seek advice and guidance as required.
5. To act in a professional manner promoting the organisation, the role of the dietitian and the importance of nutritional care.
6. To be responsible for maintaining and demonstrating own competence to practice through participation in appraisal process and CPD within the framework of the professional portfolio. This may include membership of a BDA specialist interest group.
Clinical
1. To undertake comprehensive assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex nutritional needs, seeking support as appropriate.
2. To plan and deliver individualised nutritional care plans based on comprehensive assessment of needs and knowledge of evidence based practice, modifying the care plan as required. This will include practical and emotional support for terminally ill patients and their carers.
3. To negotiate and agree dietary or nutritional goals with individual patients and/or their carers using motivational interviewing, counselling and cognitive behaviour therapy tools as applicable. This may include identifying individual barriers to change and helping clients to manage them.
1. To manage clinical risk within own patient caseload.
1. To be responsible for planning and organising own caseload and other work priorities to meet service and patient priorities, seeking guidance where appropriate.
1. To provide dietetic care to patients in a range of venues across the City including clinics, community hospitals, nursing homes and patients’ own homes.
1. To work with hospital catering staff to develop and monitor menus that contribute to adequate nutritional intakes for patients and residents. This will include those on therapeutic diets.
1. To promote and monitor the use of the nutritional screening tool used in the community hospitals and support the promotion of the city wide community screening tool within nursing homes.
1. To support the smooth running of the home enteral feeding service by responding to queries as applicable.
2. To be responsible for planning and organising own caseload and other work priorities to meet service and patient priorities.
3. To be responsible for maintaining accurate and comprehensive patient records in line with the code of conduct and Trust policies. This will include the use of electronic records and the use of a mobile device in patient settings including patient’s homes
4. To provide a customer focussed service within the resources available
5. To communicate effectively with colleagues within and outside the department to facilitate effective patient care, service development and multidisciplinary working.
6. To support the supervision, teaching, co-ordination and assessment of students and assistants.
1. To work flexibly within the job description and carry out other duties as
required.
Health Education
1. With support of senior colleagues identify, implement and evaluate strategies, which can be used to influence nutritional choices for the individual and within the community, recognising the diversity within the City.
2. To produce practical advice and resources by interpreting, translating and critically evaluating evidence and making this relevant to the intended audience.
3. To plan, deliver and evaluate health education sessions to groups of clients on agreed topics.
4. To plan, deliver and evaluate training on nutrition to other professionals
1. To provide education and training to clinicians, health care staff and care home staff on nutritional screening, food fortification, cost effective prescribing of nutritional supplement products and patient monitoring
Administration and Clinical Governance
1. To collect activity statistics within agreed timescales.
2. To contribute to dietetic staff meetings, journal reviews, peer review, team meetings, clinical supervision and working groups. To undertake mandatory training as required by the trust.
3. To contribute to department audit and research programmes.
4. To disseminate appropriate evidence/research findings and wherever possible ensure the integration of evidence/research into practice.
1. To disseminate appropriate evidence/learning and wherever possible ensure that this is integrated into practice.
Other
1. To undertake other duties commensurate with this grade of post in
agreement with the relevant line manager.
1. To minimise the Trust’s environmental impact wherever possible, including recycling, switching off lights, computers, monitors and equipment when not in use. Helping to reduce paper waste by minimising printing/copying and reducing water usage, reporting faults and heating/cooling concerns promptly and minimising travel. Where the role includes the ordering and use of supplies or equipment the post holder will consider the environmental impact of purchases.
This advert closes on Wednesday 11 Feb 2026