Community Dietitian

at  Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Have you ever considered starting your dietetic career in the Community?
Are you interested in hybrid working?
Is health and wellbeing high on your agenda?
The Community Dietetics (Adults) team are looking for a newly qualified or current Band 5 Dietitian to work in our team. We are the largest Community Dietetics team in the South East with 35 clinicians.
We are committed to supporting graduates gain knowledge and confidence to develop as a Dietitian. You will start a preceptorship programme to provide you with the skills and knowledge required in the role. On completing the preceptorship, you will have the opportunity to develop your clinical skills in an area of your choice including Gastroenterology, Diabetes, Weight Management, Nutrition Support or Neurology.
Our team includes supervision and support from our highly specialist clinical team – including our Gastroenterology dietitian, Obesity and Diabetes dietitian, Nutrition support /Prescribing Lead dietitian and Neuro dietitian.
Our team is supported by dietetic assistants and dietetic assistant practitioners and we are also supporting training for dietetic apprenticeships and dietetic students

Wellbeing is high on our agenda. To improve work-life balance we follow a hybrid working approach and offer flexible working opportunities. Our Health and Wellbeing champions provide regular updates, from money saving tips to meditation session’s, the team actively feedback on wellbeing and what would improve their work-life balance.

• Supporting adults with common nutritional conditions including; Malnutrition, Diabetes, Obesity, IBS and Coeliac disease
• Working in a variety of settings including; virtual clinics, home visits, community hospitals and care homes
• Facilitating patient groups such as Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiac Rehab
• Opportunities to engage in Quality Improvement projects
• Supporting clinical triage processes

In addition to clinical work you will also have protected catch up time for administrative tasks, training and relevant CPD opportunities.
The attached job description and person specification provides further details. We welcome any queries - please feel free to email the recruiting manager: amelia.marchant4@nhs.net
Additional Working Pattern: Monday-Friday
Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent
We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences
We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission
The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both
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The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.
We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.
At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.
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Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity

Please refer the Job description for details