Job Description

Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Band 5: Salary - £32,073 - £39,043 Per annum

Full time: 37.5hrs

Contract: Permanent

For your application to be considered will need to be an HCPC registered dietitian or on a recognised dietetics programme and due to qualify and register this year

Portsmouth Dietitians are a team of over 30 dietitians and support staff providing acute and community dietetic services to adults and children in Portsmouth and South East Hampshire. We pride ourselves on being a friendly and supportive team offering a range of opportunities for development in specialities including oncology, stroke, renal, surgery, paediatrics and community dietetics. We provide placement supervision to student dietitians.

Due to internal development into speciality roles, we have an opportunity for band 5 dietitians or students approaching qualification to gain experience across a range of specialities in a busy acute dietetic department. The rotational posts offer experience in general medicine, respiratory, stroke and oncology inpatient settings along with a regular outpatient clinic.

You will be supported by senior staff and other band 5 staff working in our friendly team. Your will gain further valuable experience in multi disciplinary working via the Portsmouth Hospitals preceptorship scheme.

In addition to managing a caseload of inpatients across a variety of speciality settings, you will be supported to develop skills in audit, service improvement, teaching and supervising student dietitians on placement.

Main duties of the role.

• Daily management of a caseload across a variety of settings over 3 rotations.
• Work as a dietitian within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver evidence based nutrition support and dietetic interventions to inpatients and support ongoing care by means of outpatient follow up or handover to community colleagues.
• Contribute to departmental learning and service improvement by attendance and input to projects, audit, journal clubs, education groups and team meetings.

For an informal discussion please contact the acute dietetics office on 02392 286000 ext:6150

For further information please refer to the

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree/Diploma in Dietetics (or working towards)
• Registration with the HCPC (or working towards)

Desirable

• Member of the British Dietetic Association

Experience

Essential

• Successful completion of dietetics practical/training placement

Desirable

• Experience of UK/NHS-based Dietetic practice
• Experience of both in-patient and out-patient dietetic settings.
• Health promotion experience
• Experience of service evaluation or audit

Additional Information

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.

For more information, please see our People and OD Strategy 2026