Dietitian | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£32,073 - £39,043 Per Annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Oldham, OL1 2JH
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	16 Sept 2026
Closing date:	16 Oct 2026

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Summary

As a newly qualified dietitian, or dietitian who wishes to gain experience within the inpatient hospital setting this is the perfect role, due to an internal secondment we have a fixed term post available.

You will deliver a service to adult nutritional support patients across our wards, in a mixture of speciality areas including Orthopaedics, general medicine, surgery, respiratory, vascular and Urology. You will work closely with experienced dietitians, learning from them and gaining an insight into the treatment of complex patients on the specialist units including Gastroenterology, Colorectal surgery and Critical care.

The caseload will include a Band 5 dietitian led clinic and opportunities to deliver staff and patient education sessions. You will provide dietetic intervention to support patients in the areas of oral nutrition support, enteral tube feeding and after training, parenteral nutrition.

You will maintain clinical responsibility for your own caseload, working with supportive dietetics assistants and will contribute to the Nutrition & Dietetic Service as a whole, through participation in service developments including audit, patient experience and resource development.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values -care,appreciateandinspire– to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

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To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

This advert closes on Wednesday 23 Sep 2026

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