Specialist Dietitian

Job summary
Looking for flexible work in the NHS?

The Flexi -Bank is a collaborative staff bank hosted by Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, offering greater choice, flexibility and access to a wider range of opportunities across both organisations.

Why join the Flexi -Bank?

• Work flexibly - choose shifts that suit your lifestyle and availability
• Access more opportunities - pick up shifts across mental health, community and acute care settings
• Get paid fairly and on time - competitive rates and fast access to earnings through Stream
• Stay supported - benefit from training, development and guidance from our dedicated Temporary Staffing Team
• Be part of something bigger - join a growing collaborative of NHS Trusts across Surrey

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust consultation, education and liaison to adults with moderate to severe eating disorders, members of the multidisciplinary team and associated services. The post holder will be a member of the multi-disciplinary adult eating disorders team, participating in the provision of on-going assessments, care planning and treatment of adults with eating disorders across both our outpatient and daycare settings.

Main duties of the job
Surry and Borders Partnership Trust is looking for someone who makes better lives by promoting health for people who use our inpatient Mental health Services and their families/carers/support staff by delivering high quality dietetic assessments, interventions, formulation, and consultations. Provision of clinical and strategic leadership, supervision, and guidance to the team and others as required. These will be undertaken within an accessible, non-stigmatising, service that contributes to the specialist needs of the individuals referred.

Locations:
Farnham Road Hospital
Farnham Road
Guildford
GU2 7LX

Silverwood Hospital
Holloway Hill,
Lyne,
Chertsey
KT16 0AE

Monday to Friday 8AM to 4PM or 9AM to 5PM

About us
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trusts to work for? This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.

Details
Date posted: 14 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £30.35 an hour
Contract: Bank
Working pattern: Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 384-SM-Dietitian 7
Job locations: Farnham Road Hospital, Farnham Rd, Guildford, GU2 7LX, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Professional

• To act within the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act (2005).
• To be aware of and implement Safeguarding Adult and Child Protection Policies, Procedures and legislation.
• To provide cover in the absence of the Band 7 lead dietitian in other divisions.
• To ensure that all service users are treated based on Evidence based practice and nationally agreed standards.
• To attend all statutory and mandatory training required to undertake the job role.
• To provide in house training to health care professionals in line with the Service objectives and needs.
• To attend professional supervision sessions and engage as per Trusts Supervision and Appraisal Policy.
• To engage in your own CPD and actively contribute to the continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities within the wider dietetic service.
• To attend multidisciplinary team meetings as required and contribute to research in the clinical area.
• To document assessments, interventions, evaluations and progress notes in a clear, timely and professional manner, in line with Trust and profession specific policies.
• To contribute to a healthy and safe working environment by adhering to health and safety regulations and Trust policies.
• To attend and contribute to Dietetic team meetings across the Trust face to face or virtually as required.
• To be willing to undertake duties as may be reasonably required to support the professional delivery of services and ensure clinical safety. These may be based at another Trust managed location.

Leadership

• To plan, support and deliver high-quality and highly complex dietetic assessments and interventions
• To lead on service development, evaluations and audits relevant to dietetics.
• To provide high quality supervision and mentoring to dietetic staff, including appraisals and addressing performance issues as required
• To represent and advocate for dietetics within a range of forums within the Trust, ICS and regionally
• To deliver effective continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities within services and divisions to enable dietetic staff to deliver the identified dietetics pathways
• To ensure that placements for dietetic students and apprenticeships are offered within the clinical speciality
• To lead on the development and implementation of appropriate policies, protocols and care pathways
• To contribute to the strategic planning of the dietetic service within the Trust
• To be part of the wider MDT leadership team within the locality/sector/division, providing support as part of the seniors team within the service e.g. caseload reviews, MDT discussions, assessment feedback meetings.
• To research national best practice and enable services to benchmark practice against nationally recognised standards- in partnership with people who use services.
• To contribute to appropriate staff recruitment and contribute to the wider strategic plan regarding recruitment and retention.

Clinical

• To have an excellent knowledge of clinical dietetics and models
• To provide evidence based and outcome measured dietetic interventions (individual and group)
• To be able to effectively communicate with colleagues, peers, senior managers and clinical leads within the Trust.
• Develop and maintain good communication with all levels of management within the service and build partnerships internal service and external agencies such as GPs.
• To use highly effective clinical reasoning and formulation skills to devise person-centred dietetic care plans, alongside people who access services and their carers/supporters/family members (where appropriate).
• To work closely with the multidisciplinary team to achieve dietetic outcomes.
• Participate in the review and dietetic development of clinical policies and identify improvements to service provision.
• To act as mentor to students, providing effective education, facilitating their development and promoting high standards of dietetic care and coordinating placement timetables and support supervision.
• To ensure continuation of care within the dietetic service including discharge planning and follow up in line with service standards.
• To manage a caseload of patients requiring enteral feeding and supporting with oral nutritional support and obesity caseloads as required.
• To provide expert nutrition support care to people on Enteral Feeding or identified at risk of malnutrition, including those prescribed oral nutritional supplements, to enable their dietary and nutritional rehabilitation.
• To make recommendations to GPs on the appropriate prescribing of enteral feeds and oral nutritional supplements.
• Write reports reflecting specialist knowledge as necessary.
• To lead in the planning, organisation and delivery of a seamless service for patients on Enteral Feeding transferring between Inpatient services and the Community.
• To lead on developing nutrition resources and deliver training sessions in clinical area, for both staff and people who use our services.
• To complete comprehensive risk assessment and management plans, raising safeguarding concerns in line with Trust policy.
• To keep up to date with current evidence-based practice, research and National guidelines within your clinical area, sharing this knowledge with the wider dietetic service.
• To effectively manage a caseload with people who have highly complex mental health needs.
• To provide services which are compassionate, inclusive and understanding of the needs of people who access services, carers/supporter/family members.
• To actively forge effective working relationships with partner organisations, stakeholders and other community resources.
• To collate clinical impact and outcome data and share with the relevant stakeholders and Trust Wide Professional Lead.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Dietetics professional qualification. (HCPC registration)

Desirable

• Leadership training
• Experience of representing dietetics within a service and Trust
• Additional academic or clinical qualifications/training relevant to area of work
• Membership of relevant British Dietetic Association specialist groups
• Clinical supervision training
• Student educators training
• Experience of facilitating groups

Experience
Essential

• Extensive and relevant post qualification clinical experience with people who have complex mental health needs.
• Demonstrates evidence of highly effective clinical reasoning skills
• Demonstrates specialist knowledge of dietetic assessment and interventions
• Evidence of an interest and skills in specialist area.
• Experience of contributing to service development/project work
• Experience of providing clinical supervision
• Experience of supporting dietetic students on placement.

Skills
Essential

• Ability to travel between sites for meetings, such as access to a vehicle and a driving license.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.