Specialist Dietitian

This vacancy is for a Specialist Dietitian (Band 6) based at our Bristol sites. The role is a rotational post that offers the opportunity to develop specialist expertise across a number of pathways on an annual basis.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert dietetic advice through our inpatient and outpatient services across specialist pathways including respiratory, hepatology, critical care, surgery, head and neck, oncology, and cystic fibrosis.
• Work within the dietetic team and multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) demonstrating core skills in oral, enteral, and parenteral nutrition support, as well as behaviour change strategies.
• Support pathway development, patient education, and student training in collaboration with Senior Dietitians.
• Maintain effective communication at all levels of health care professionals regarding the nutritional care of individual patients.
• Deliver information to patients in potentially distressing or emotional situations, using holistic communication skills.
• Use negotiation skills to motivate and facilitate dietary change, applying a range of evaluation strategies and adapting communication techniques as needed.
• Educate, support, and guide patients by advising on therapeutic dietary regimens that may involve significant and continuous lifestyle changes.
• Translate nutritional concepts into practical everyday terms for patients, staff, and professional colleagues of all levels.
• Provide expert dietetic advice at case conferences, care and discharge planning meetings as a key member of the multi‑professional team.
• Liaise with partners including clinical MDTs, pharmacy, catering, and community services to ensure continuity of care across service providers.

All team members work one Saturday every eight weeks with a corresponding day off in the working week and receive one Bank Holiday per year.

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