Specialist Dietitian

Overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team, working with adults, their families and carers in community settings across Fife. We are looking for a dynamic and forward thinking Dietitian who is passionate about making a difference and ready to take the next step in their career.

Role and Service Context

Whether you’re an experienced Band 6 Dietitian looking to broaden your specialist skills, or a Band 5 Dietitian eager to progress, this role offers the chance to develop your expertise across a range of clinical specialities. Our Community Team currently covers community clinics, domiciliary visits, and community hospitals across Fife, supporting a diverse adult caseload. The post offers a wide range of dietetic practice, with a focus on nutritional support, including enteral tube feeding.

Responsibilities and Expectations

We are looking for someone with enthusiasm, experience and a passion to support the delivery of nutrition and dietetic input in prevention and early intervention. You will also play a vital role in the education and training of others, contributing to service innovation and redesign as we shape the future of our community dietetic service.

Service Context

Nutrition & Dietetics Service – NHS Fife. This is a Fife-wide service with clinical teams of Hospital Services, Community Services, Diabetes & Weight Management, Infant, Children & Young People. We work closely with the Health Promotion Food & Health Teams and operate a non-prescribing ordering model (NPO) for oral nutritional supplements.

Development and Training

We support undergraduate and graduate student placements (A, B & C), offer rotational opportunities for new graduates, and host fortnightly education and CPD sessions via Teams. Our service is committed to professional development, innovation, and delivering high-quality, Dietitian-led models of care.

Qualifications

Registered with HCPC, you’ll bring the skills, experience and enthusiasm to thrive in this role. Full induction and training will be provided.

How to Apply / Contact

We love to hear from applicants! For an informal chat, contact Elspeth Ryan, Clinical Lead Dietitian on 01383 565493 or email Elspeth.Ryan@nhs.scot

Right to Work and Sponsorship

NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. If you are not a United Kingdom (UK) or Irish National, you are required to confirm your right to work in your application. To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigration Service. As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to GOV.UK.

For specific types of post, if you do not have the necessary eligibility to work in the UK, it might be possible (though not guaranteed) to secure sponsorship via a UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licensed Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or ‘going rate’. Further information on these criteria can be found here.

It is essential that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form.

Checks and Inclusion

Due to legislative changes from 1 April 2025, this post may require a different level of criminal records check done than is currently the case. If the post is assessed as a \”regulated role\”, your appointment will be subject to joining the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. If there is any change to what is currently required, this will be confirmed by either the Hiring Manager or the Recruitment Team. For more details on these changes please visit: Disclosure Scotland Changes.

We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

Equality and Diversity

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.