Band 5 Community Dietitian - Bromley

Overview

Bromley Healthcare is a community interest company delivering services including community nursing, therapy and related care. We operate as a social enterprise with NHS-aligned benefits and opportunities to reinvest surpluses into community initiatives.

Salary: £35,763 - £43,466 Inc HCAS per annum pro rata. Salary period: Yearly. Closing date: 16/09/:59. Interview date: 02/10/2025.

Employees whose role may be at risk will receive priority consideration. Applicants for roles involving driving responsibilities will be required to provide proof of business insurance.

Job overview

Band 5 Community Dietitian - Bromley

Full-time - 37.5 hours per week

We are looking for a Community Dietitian to join a dynamic, friendly team focused on patient care. There may be opportunities to work across other Bromley Healthcare Dietetics services to support career development.

Proposed interview date: Thurs 2 Oct.

Main duties of the job

The Adult Community Dietitian will support the Adult Community Team for Bromley in providing a coordinated Nutrition and Dietetic service. The service supports patients predominantly for home enteral feeding as well as management of other nutritional issues such as malnutrition, irritable bowel syndrome, raised lipids, Coeliac disease, Inflammatory bowel disease and nutritional deficiencies. This includes support, assessment and ongoing reviews.

• Manage a clinical caseload within the Adult Community Dietetic Service.
• Demonstrate specialist knowledge in Dietetics, underpinned by current evidence-based practice.
• Autonomously provide expert nutritional and dietetic advice to patients referred to the service under the care of GPs and other healthcare professionals.
• Work as an independent practitioner, prioritising and managing patient caseloads. Settings include patients' homes, care homes and clinics across the borough (including mental health and learning disabilities care homes).
• Communicate nutritional information to patients, families and carers in one-to-one or group formats and adapt presentations to varied learning abilities.

Working for our organisation

Bromley Healthcare offers extensive services, from community nursing to specialised nursing and therapy services across age groups. Compensation is contingent upon NHS experience and current banding/pay point.

We provide a benefits package including pension schemes, discounted gym memberships, cycle-to-work, discounts at retailers, EAP, Blue Light Card eligibility, and access to a lease car scheme. We continuously strive to enhance benefits.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Advise on safe and appropriate use of over-the-counter products (vitamins, minerals, specialist dietary products).
• Advise on prescribing nutritional supplements listed as ACBS, vitamins and minerals.
• Collaborate with Local Medicines Management Team and Prescribing Support Dietitians to support local prescribing policy.
• Make recommendations to medical practitioners for diagnostic tests (e.g., blood tests).
• Communicate sensitively with patients/residents and care staff to meet nutritional goals.
• Provide clinical advice and support to dietetic assistants and identify training needs.
• Be flexible to cover workload of other dietitians during leave when required.
• Deliver and evaluate group education and support for patients, families and carers on nutrition and dietetic issues.
• Ensure assessments and advice are appropriate to patients' knowledge, including social, cultural and religious needs.
• Develop and evaluate written resources to support nutrition interventions and teaching.
• Provide a broad range of nutrition and dietetic advice for adults and carers to meet varying needs.
• Undertake comprehensive dietetic assessments, including non-verbal or limited-communication patients, using interview skills, biochemistry interpretation, nutrition calculation and anthropometry.
• Make independent clinical judgements and diagnoses based on assessments where access to other professionals is not immediately available.
• Evaluate outcomes and adjust care plans to achieve goals.

Person specification Professional Registration

• HCPC Registration as a Dietitian
• Registered member of British Dietetic Association (BDA)

IT

• Competent in IT including electronic patient records
• Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, Internet and e-mail
• Experience of using EMIS
• Advanced IT skills including Excel and Access
• Able to use dietary analysis programmes
• Good interpersonal skills

Experience

• Successful completion of all clinical placements
• Experience supervising and training student dietitians
• Experience delivering training programmes for health professionals and clients
• Experience working in a community setting
• Experience in home enteral feeding

Specific skills

• Ability to work independently with supervision from Senior Clinicians
• Clinically competent to give specialist advice and counselling to support behaviour change in adults and carers
• Use clinical judgement in assessing complex information within a multidisciplinary team
• Good negotiation, persuasion, motivation and counselling skills
• Knowledge of relevant national guidelines
• Recognise limits of own authority and seek professional support when needed
• Confident in the use of equipment for accurate anthropometry
• Car driver and current valid driving license
• Understanding of professional issues and ethics in practice
• Ability to work with patients with complex communication needs
• Ability to interpret clinical information and develop guidelines/protocols

Training

• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

Qualifications

• Degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics
• Post-registration course for clinical supervisory skills or equivalent supervising students

We encourage all colleagues to avail themselves of the Coronavirus vaccination and are committed to a diverse and inclusive culture with equal opportunities. We welcome applicants with a disability and can support reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process.

We offer flexible working options from day one, including compressed hours, part-time and job shares. Please discuss with the hiring manager.

All offers are subject to a six-month probationary period. Bromley Healthcare CIC is an NHS community provider and a co-owned social enterprise; staff may be on NHS Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions and may be eligible for the NHS pension scheme. If not, Nest or Scottish Widows pension schemes are available.

Recruitment notes: check emails regularly; provide accurate work-related referees; at-risk staff will be prioritized; shortlisting via TRAC; adverts may close earlier than published.

Employer certification / accreditation

You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to Disclosure requirements under relevant acts.

Name: Sarah Belaon, Job title: Joint Service Lead for Community Dietetics, Email: , Tel: