Paediatric Dietitian (Band 6)

Job Introduction

Make a lasting difference to children’s health and well‑being across Wiltshire.

Join our dedicated paediatric dietetic team and play a vital role in delivering specialist, community‑based support to children and families who rely on our expertise to thrive.

You will provide a high‑quality and responsive paediatric dietetic service for patients referred by GPs, Health Visitors and Children’s Services across the north and west of Wiltshire. Your work will help shape healthier futures by supporting children with a wide range of nutritional needs.

This role can be based at either Wilton Community Hospital or Chippenham Community Hospital, with the flexibility to work from home as part of our hybrid working model. You will also have access to team office bases at both sites, and some on‑site time is encouraged to support learning, development and collaboration with colleagues.

Our team delivers a blend of face‑to‑face clinics and inpatient support across community hospitals and health centres in Chippenham, Wilton, Salisbury, Amesbury, Warminster, Melksham, Trowbridge, Devizes and Savernake. Where possible, we align each clinician’s working locality with their primary base to support manageable travel and work–life balance. You will also contribute to virtual services offered to children and families throughout Wiltshire, ensuring equitable access to dietetic care.

This role offers the chance to deliver meaningful, person‑centred care while working within a supportive and forward‑thinking community team.

Key Responsibilities

• Safely and effectively manage your own patient caseload.
• Carry out comprehensive nutritional assessments, including anthropometric measurements, using specialist equipment where needed.
• Calculate and estimate individual nutritional requirements.
• Develop safe and appropriate nutritional treatment plans tailored to each patient.

Post‑registration training in communication and behaviour change, with completed Safeguarding Children training.

Experience working with paediatric patients in NHS settings, including paediatric home enteral feeding.

Experience in project management, teaching, and supervising staff or students.

Ability to translate complex dietetic information into clear, practical language for children, carers, and professionals.

Knowledge of clinical governance, standard dietetic products for paediatrics, and safe, effective treatment planning.

Strong communication skills for both 1:1 and group education, with a sensitive and supportive approach.

Ability to work autonomously as a paediatric specialist, while contributing effectively within multidisciplinary teams.

Ability to design, deliver, and evaluate training programmes, and to set up audits to monitor service quality.

Flexible, innovative approach with strong organisational and problem‑solving skills.

Additional Essential Criteria For Band 6

• Completion of BDA Paediatric Dietetic Modules 1 and 2.
• Training in supervisory skills.
• Additional BDA paediatric modules or working towards a relevant MSc.
• Willingness to work flexibly across different areas of the county or Trust when required.
• Confident using MS Office.
• Car driver with access to a vehicle for business use.
  
  

Package Description

As a Paediatric Dietitian, you will be part of our valued team in our BSW Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• £38,682 - £46,580 FTE (Band 6 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you

Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates

Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling

Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise

An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year

The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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