Job Overview
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is looking for a motivated and forward-thinking Band 6 Senior Outpatient Dietitian to join our dynamic team for 7.5 hours per week on a fixed-term basis until 31st March 2026.
The successful candidate will lead on outpatient service development projects, including the redesign of the IBS pathway, while maintaining relevant clinical skills and contributing to direct patient care and triaging referrals. This role offers an excellent opportunity to strengthen service development expertise, build strong professional links across the Trust’s dietetic teams, and contribute to departmental meetings, student support, staff supervision, and data collection.
Our well-established department spans a wide range of specialities and is committed to supporting individual wellbeing, personal growth, regular supervision, and continued professional development.
Main duties of the job
- Leading on various outpatient service development projects
- Maintaining relevant clinical skills related to role
- Attendance and contribution to relevant meetings
- This role may involve some direct outpatient activity as well as triaging of outpatient referrals
- Supporting students and providing staff supervision as required
- Be involved with data collection for the department
- Working with the Outpatient lead to help streamline services
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details regarding the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- HCPC Registration
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable criteria
- Student supervision training
- Membership of specialist interest group
- Attended post-qualification training within speciality
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant dietetic experience, for both acute and outpatient
- Experience of service development/Quality Improvement
- Experience gathering and interpreting data
Desirable criteria
- Research experience
- Leadership experience
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good organisation/prioritisation skills
- Good communication skills
- Good presentation skills
- MDT Working skills
Desirable criteria
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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