Dietitian: Sponsorship Available

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

Job Summary

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board are looking to recruit permanent full time Band 5 dietitians across acute and community services.

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board Dietetic service have vacancies for Band 5 dietitians. The post holders have the potential to work across the full spectrum of services. We are looking for enthusiastic graduates wishing to experience a supportive, exciting and varied band 5 career to join our team.

Starting bases will be either at the University Hospital of Wales, University Hospital Llandough or within community services. Applicant preference will be considered during allocation process. All band 5 roles are rotational and we will aim to provide a varied opportunity for you with the potential to move between community and acute sites if you so wish.

The rotations include the opportunity to work within the acute, community and public health dietetic teams including multidisciplinary Community Resource Teams, community dietetic clinics, home visits, group education, mental health, acute medicine and surgery, with specialties of oncology, gastroenterology, stroke, trauma, spinal, rehabilitation, respiratory medicine, renal medicine and cardiology.

 

Main duties of the job

The day to day management of an adult patient caseload within the designated services either Community, University Hospital Llandough or University Hospital of Wales. This includes the support of older adults and enteral feeding. Using evidence-based patient centred principals to assess, plan, implement and evaluate dietetic interventions for patients and maintain associated records.

Contributing to the chronic disease management service including provision of dietetic clinics and group education programmes.

Liaising and working in partnership with the relevant care team on a day to day basis i.e. Care home staff, primary care teams, integrated multidisciplinary teams on wards and the dietetic teams in each service.

Supervision of dietetic assistants and pre-registration student dietitians.

Teaching evidence-based nutrition to patients, healthcare professionals and care home staff as required.

There are opportunities to gain skills in public health dietetics.

You will work within a friendly and highly skilled department and have numerous opportunities for professional and personal development. You will be actively involved in the research, audit and the Quality and Safety agenda of the department and UHB. The service is a major provider of pre-registration dietetic education and the successful candidate will be involved in the delivery of training and education.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree or postgraduate qualification in Dietetics or working towards this
  • HCPC registration

Desirable

  • Post graduate experience
  • Clinical supervisory skills
  • Member of the BDA/other indemnity insurance

Experience

Essential

  • Appropriate clinical experience

Desirable

  • Experience of working with groups
  • Previous experience of university teaching hospital or community through training or post-grad work
  • Previous NHS experience e.g. DA, HCSW

Skills

Essential

  • Good written communication skills
  • Ability to work within a team
  • computer literacy
  • Nutritional analysis

Desirable

  • Audit, research or service development (QI) skills
  • Motivational interviewing skills

Special Knowledge

Essential

  • Awareness of multi-cultural population/dietary practices
  • Experience of an NHS environment.

Desirable

  • Experience working within a large scale catering environment and/or as a dietetic assistant/support worker.
  • Welsh speaker

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).

Closing Date: 23 April 2026

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