Specialist Dietitian - Diabetes | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Are you a band 6 Dietitian looking to develop or broaden your skills or looking for part time hours, a band 5 Dietitian looking for your first promotion?

The Dietetic Team consists of 26 Dietitians with 6 Dietetic Support Staff providing a service to both acute, paediatric (both diabetic and general paediatrics), and community settings and therefore there is opportunity to work alongside these teams. We are also supported by secretarial and administrative staff. You will have access to regular supervision and have 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 and you will have an active role in supporting this programme. The trust is also committed with AHP research and has recently gained resource to support this within the trust.

We are currently recruiting two part time posts within our Dietetic service; Mental Health and Diabetes. We would be happy to consider applications for an individual to cover both posts to make a full time position, You wouldn't need to apply for both but please outline if this is of interest within your supporting information.

A range of skills is required for this post, including excellent communication skills and the ability to manage a busy workload. The post-holder should be someone who enjoys working within a team and is eager to provide support to others.

You will manage a caseload diabetic dietetic outpatients working as the lead Diabetes Dietitian covering type 1 complex Diabetes outpatient caseload (including for example carbohydrate counting, insulin adjustment, insulin pumps as well as care for complex type 2 patients and antenatal diabetic patients. You would be working as part of the multidisciplinary team in the diabetes centre as well as being part of the wider dietetic team and would also be involved in delivering DAFNE training. Training will be given if not already DAFNE trained.

You will also benefit from working with other specialist dietitians as well as being responsible for supervision of band 5 rotational and student Dietitians

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.

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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

This advert closes on Tuesday 26 May 2026