Dietetic Assistant Practitioner | Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking to recruit a Dietetic Assistant Practitioner to work within our Acute Adult Inpatient Team. It is a varied role which will involve working closely and supporting your dietetic colleagues, as well as various multidisciplinary teams, to support patients under older people’s medicine, gastroenterology, neurology and stroke, respiratory, cardiology, oncology, surgery, and more! We offer regular supervision and opportunities for professional growth.

You’ll be welcomed into a truly diverse, multi-talented department where everyone’s background and perspective are valued. Our team brings together a wide range of experiences, cultures, and ideas, making us stronger and more innovative. We’re proud of our open, inclusive culture; your voice matters, and you’ll be encouraged to shape how we work.

We believe in working hard, supporting each other, and having fun together. As a department we have regular shared lunches and there are frequent social events giving us the chance to relax and catch up outside of work.

If you want to develop your skills, make a real impact, and join a team that lives its PRIDE values—People-focused, Respect, Integrity, Dedication, and Excellence, apply now! You’ll gain new friends, fresh perspectives, and a workplace where you truly belong.

As a Dietetic Assistant Practitioner working within our Adult Acute Inpatient Team, you’ll be working to assist the Dietitians to contribute to the provision of the highest standards of patient care. You will take responsibility for the dietetic/nutritional management of patients on your caseload, in accordance with agreed pathways for care and direct and indirect supervision from a qualified Dietitian. You will work with adult inpatients from a wide range of clinical specialties within the acute team, including medicine for the elderly, respiratory, oncology, gastroenterology, surgical and more. You will see patients requiring different levels of nutrition support including oral and enteral nutrition support.

The successful candidate will be highly organized and forward thinking and contribute to service development and quality improvement projects, as well as participation in research and audit. The candidate should be confident in delivering presentations and teaching sessions such as nutritional screening training to ward staff.

Applicants should be self-motivated, enthusiastic and prepared to work flexibly in a busy environment.

Interview date

20thMay 2026

Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!

The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.

We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity.

We can offer you the full range of

NHS benefits/discounts and in addition

• Flexible working hours
• Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
• Multi Faith prayer room at NNUH Colney Lane site
• Discounted gym memberships
• Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
• Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
• Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH Colney Lane site
• Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
• On-site Nursery at NNUH Colney Lane
• On-site cafes offering staff discounts at NNUH Colney Lane
• Support in career development
• Flexible staff bank
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics

Clinical

1. To manage an allocated workload efficiently and effectively with regard to clinical priorities and use of time, in accordance with agreed guidance/care pathways.

2. To gain valid informed consent prior to undertaking any clinical tasks. With support, to work within the legal framework with patients who lack the capacity to consent to treatment

3. To manage, without direct supervision, own caseload of less complex patients triaged by the supervising dietitians. This will include running clinics and seeing patients in a variety of other settings, acute and community. The post holder will work in a specified clinical area with patients who have been delegated by registered dietitians. In accordance with agreed guidance/care pathways:

· Carry out an initial assessment

· Implement and monitor/review a suitable nutritional treatment plan

· Refer on to dietitians if patient presents with problems outside the competency of the post holder

Please view the attached job description for full details of the role, and use your supporting statement to confirm how you meet the essential and desirable criteria on the job specification.

If you’re switching from a different visa, you must have been working legally in your job for your sponsor for at least 3 months.

If you’re extending or updating your visa and you got your certificate of sponsorship before 22 July 2025, your job can also be in one of the following ‘medium skilled’ occupation codes: 3219

This advert closes on Tuesday 12 May 2026