• Job Description

  Req#: C9367-26-0226?language=en&page=214&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  We are recruiting for an eating disorders dietician . This is an exciting opportunity is to offer specialist dietetic and work alongside a supportive multi-disciplinary team cover two of Hertfordshire's Community Eating Disorder Service intensive support services:

  1. The Intensive Community Support Team (ICS) - offering home treatment to progress recovery within service users home's or local community
  2. The Acorn Day Unit - offering day treatment within a tranquil day unit environment based at Rosanne House in Welwyn Garden City

  This role is new within these services so you will have opportunity to develop the dietetic input using your established clinical skills and experience. As a dietitian experienced in working with those with an eating disorder you will require excellent motivation skills to support alongside colleagues progression for those who find improving nutrition extremely challenging.

  You will be responsible assessing , collaboratively formulating meal plans with the service user/carers and setting weekly nutritional goals. You will provide nutritional psycho-education and guidance to your colleagues.

  Main duties of the job

  • Assessment and collaborative formulation of a meal plans for people under ICS, the virtual intensive treatment team whom ICS support and the Acorn Day Unit.
  • Collaborative weekly nutritional goal setting with service users.
  • Providing group nutritional psycho-education within the Acorn Day Unit.
  • Guidance to team members on supporting weekly nutritional goals.
  • Nutritional psycho-education to team members.
  • Contribution to delivery of the Service Specification.
  • Contribution to service evaluation.
  • Liaison with dietitians/health or social care colleagues around service users nutrition.

  About us

  Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

  Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

  The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

  Our Trust values are:

  Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

  These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

  Details

  Date posted

  20 March 2026

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 6

  Salary

  £40,617 to £48,778 a year per annum pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAS)

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Part-time

  Reference number

  367-SS-10167

  Job locations

  Rosanne House, Parkway, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. AL8 6HG

  Parkway

  Welwyn Garden City

  AL8 6HG

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  The Dietitian will:

  • Provide specialist assessment of nutrition of those under the care of under ICS, the Virtual Intensive Treatment (VIT) team whom ICS support and the Acorn Day Unit.
  • Provide dietetic input over a range of mediums and in different locations.
  • In collaboration with service users and carers the Dietician will formulate a meal plan and set weekly goals related to improving nutrition with the aim of a 0.5kg weight restoration
  • Use high level skills to identify and overcome barriers to nutritional change using interviewing, counselling, and motivational skills. This will require well developed skills in negotiation, persuasion, tact and diplomacy.
  • Guide staff supporting delivery of nutritional goals.
  • Be responsible for the development and delivery of an evidenced based dietetic service to ICS and the Acorn Day Unit.
  • Work collaboratively with the ICST, VIT, Acorn Day Unit and any other health providers working with service users.
  • Provide nutritional psycho- education to service users and carers
  • Work closely with the ICS, VIT and Acorn Day Unit nurse practitioner(s), and team leads to ensure any risks associated with nutritional changes are managed safely.
  • Participate in the teams clinical meetings.
  • Participate in other service user meetings as required/appropriate (CEDS team meeting, ward meetings, CPAs, etc.)
  • Contribute to delivery of the ICS, VIT and the Acorn Day Unit service specification including contributing to data collection and evaluation.
  • Participate in clinical, managerial, and professional supervision.
  • Maintaining registration to required professional bodies.

  For a more detailed description, please see attached JD and PS.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  The Dietitian will:

  • Provide specialist assessment of nutrition of those under the care of under ICS, the Virtual Intensive Treatment (VIT) team whom ICS support and the Acorn Day Unit.
  • Provide dietetic input over a range of mediums and in different locations.
  • In collaboration with service users and carers the Dietician will formulate a meal plan and set weekly goals related to improving nutrition with the aim of a 0.5kg weight restoration
  • Use high level skills to identify and overcome barriers to nutritional change using interviewing, counselling, and motivational skills. This will require well developed skills in negotiation, persuasion, tact and diplomacy.
  • Guide staff supporting delivery of nutritional goals.
  • Be responsible for the development and delivery of an evidenced based dietetic service to ICS and the Acorn Day Unit.
  • Work collaboratively with the ICST, VIT, Acorn Day Unit and any other health providers working with service users.
  • Provide nutritional psycho- education to service users and carers
  • Work closely with the ICS, VIT and Acorn Day Unit nurse practitioner(s), and team leads to ensure any risks associated with nutritional changes are managed safely.
  • Participate in the teams clinical meetings.
  • Participate in other service user meetings as required/appropriate (CEDS team meeting, ward meetings, CPAs, etc.)
  • Contribute to delivery of the ICS, VIT and the Acorn Day Unit service specification including contributing to data collection and evaluation.
  • Participate in clinical, managerial, and professional supervision.
  • Maintaining registration to required professional bodies.

  For a more detailed description, please see attached JD and PS.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Degree/Post Graduate Diploma in nutrition and dietetics
  • Health Professions Council Registration
  • Evidence of further professional development
  • British Dietetic Association Registration

  Desirable

  • Additional Training in the field of eating disorders

  Experience

  Essential

  • Experience of assessing and delivering tailored evidence based dietetic interventions
  • Experience of motivating people when there are barriers to making change

  Desirable

  • Experience of working with people with eating disorders
  • Knowledge of complications/risks to those who have an eating disorder
  • Awareness of NICE recommended interventions for those with an eating disorder

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Degree/Post Graduate Diploma in nutrition and dietetics
  • Health Professions Council Registration
  • Evidence of further professional development
  • British Dietetic Association Registration

  Desirable

  • Additional Training in the field of eating disorders

  Experience

  Essential

  • Experience of assessing and delivering tailored evidence based dietetic interventions
  • Experience of motivating people when there are barriers to making change

  Desirable

  • Experience of working with people with eating disorders
  • Knowledge of complications/risks to those who have an eating disorder
  • Awareness of NICE recommended interventions for those with an eating disorder

  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).

  Additional information

  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

  Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Rosanne House, Parkway, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. AL8 6HG

  Parkway

  Welwyn Garden City

  AL8 6HG

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.hpft.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Rosanne House, Parkway, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. AL8 6HG

  Parkway

  Welwyn Garden City

  AL8 6HG

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.hpft.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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