About this role
Job summary
This is a rare opportunity to join a newly established dietetic service supporting young people with eating disorders across Hampshire. From the outset, you will play a key role in shaping how dietetic care is delivered within a truly innovative model spanning community, day services, and inpatient settings.
This unique role offers variety, complexity, and the chance to develop a broad and highly valuable clinical skillset. Working directly with young people and their families, you will gain experience across the full pathway of care while contributing to the evolution of a brand new service. You will be part of a supportive multidisciplinary team where dietetics is recognised as essential to patient care. Alongside experienced colleagues, you will receive strong day to day support while building confidence in managing complex cases and contributing to service development and pathway improvement.
This role is open to experienced dietitians, as well as those ready to step into a more advanced specialist position. A structured development pathway, including regular supervision and clearly defined competency frameworks, provides a supportive route for progression. Ideally suited to a motivated clinician, this opportunity offers the chance to develop specialist expertise, thrive within a diverse clinical environment, and make a meaningful contribution to a service evolving to meet the complex needs of young people with eating disorders.
Main duties of the job
Deliver specialist clinical care and leadership while managing a complex caseload and promoting high-quality, evidence-based practice. This includes undertaking comprehensive assessments, developing and reviewing care plans, and delivering appropriate interventions to ensure safe and effective outcomes. The role involves providing supervision and support to junior staff, students and assistants, promoting ongoing professional development and maintaining high standards, while acting as a role model for compassionate, person-centred care.
Work collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team, including medical, nursing and allied health professionals, to ensure coordinated, holistic care, contributing to discussions with specialist input and supporting shared clinical decision-making. In addition, contribute to service development, audit and quality improvement initiatives, using data to enhance service delivery, and support the implementation of policies while ensuring compliance with professional and organisational standards.
Communicate effectively with patients, carers and colleagues, including in complex or sensitive situations, and demonstrate strong organisational skills, prioritisation and resilience. The role requires advanced clinical knowledge, leadership and sound decision-making, alongside excellent communication skills and a commitment to teamwork and continuous improvement
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Job description Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics with postregistration experience demonstrating knowledge at master's level or equivalent, or a relevant postgraduate or Master's level qualification. Registered Dietitian with the Heath care professional's council with current registration. Member of the British Dietetic Association. Evidence of ongoing CPD relevant to dietetics.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address Adelaide Health Centre, Western Community Centre
William Macleod Way
Southampton
Hampshire
SO16 4XE
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)