Children's Community Dietetic Assistant Manchester, England
Job description
Exciting opportunity to be part of a small but vital team working with special needs school nurses and the wider Children's Community Nursing services to provide support to children on home enteral feeds.
Post holder will work within a team and individually as a dietetic assistant supporting clinical paediatric dietitians working in the Local Care organisation. The post holder will work independently without direct supervision. Regular supervision is readily available. Car Driver/Owner and access to a vehicle for work every day is required.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dietetic assistant to join our small, friendly, and dynamic community team.
This is a varied and interesting role which incorporates both patient facing work such as visiting patients at home and at clinical appointments; obtaining weights/heights; reviewing patients by telephone to check progress with feeding regimens; as well as office based tasks such as managing appointments, registering and managing patients orders for home enteral feeding equipment, handling enquiries, general team organisation and contribution to project work.
Based within the special needs school and community nursing team, we are responsible for providing dietetic support to infants and children who have complex health conditions and/or learning disabilities and who require tube feeding at home.
We work closely with the children, carers and families that we care for, and we also work alongside a broad multidisciplinary team including paediatricians, children’s community nurses, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, health visitors, and social workers; and we have good links with the hospital dietitians at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital and the surrounding community teams.
This post would ideally suit a person with excellent organisational and interpersonal skills who is looking for an opportunity to be an essential member of a forward-thinking and supportive dietetic service.
MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
