Highly Specialist Dietitian (B7) Birmingham: Sponsorship Available

St Andrew’s Healthcare

Job summary

Career Level B / Professional (NHS Band 7)

Salary: Up to £52,000 DOE

Hours: Full Time 37.5 hours per week but flexible options may be considered.

The Role & Person

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly skilled enthusiastic HCPC registered Dietitian with excellent communication, varied clinical skills with particular experience of supporting patients with Diabetes and Weight management, an interest in collaborating with the onsite catering team to deliver patient menus and leadership skills to join our friendly and supportive team at St Andrews Healthcare Birmingham site.

Meeting nutritional needs in a Mental health setting can be challenging but very rewarding with the opportunity to make a significant difference to patient care. Support will be available from your line manager and colleagues within the hospital team.

This post would be ideally suited to an experienced Band 6 Dietitian wishing to take the next step in their career progression and have the opportunity expand their leadership and clinical skills or an established Band 7 Dietitian seeking a new challenge and career direction.

Main duties of the job

You will be the sole Dietician at the Birmingham site so will have ownership of the work completed so can really make changes and improvements you feel are needed. You may also have the opportunity to manage a small caseload of patients with eating disorder / disordered eating. Previous experience of working with a variety of nutritional needs and an interest in mental health would be desirable for this post.

St Andrews has a strong ethos of multidisciplinary working and has close links with Speech and language therapy, physiotherapy and the ward teams. The dietetics team also works closely with the on-site catering team who provide a fresh cook catering service, which is tailored to patients needs.

Benefits

St Andrews Healthcare offers an attractive benefits package including pension, sickness policy on par with the NHS, 35 days annual leave rising up to 41 days (including back holidays), life cover, car lease scheme, cycle to work scheme, healthcare cash plan, free parking and paid DBS application.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • HCPC Registered Dietician

Experience

Essential

  • This post would be ideally suited to an experienced Band 6 Dietitian wishing to take the next step in their career progression and have the opportunity expand their leadership and clinical skills or an established Band 7 Dietitian seeking a new challenge and career direction. There will be lots of opportunity for the individual to shape how dietetic services are provided on the site

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 6 September 2026

To apply for this job please visit www.jobs.nhs.uk.