Dietetic Assistant - Paediatric Inherited Metabolic Disease

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust as a Dietetic Assistant specializing in Paediatric Inherited Metabolic Disease, where you will support dietitians in providing nutritional care for children with metabolic disorders. This role involves a blend of administrative duties, direct patient interaction, and participation in clinical governance activities, offering a rewarding opportunity in a dynamic healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• Educated to GCSE level or equivalent.
• Basic Food Hygiene Certificate required.
• Experience in communicating with the general public is essential.

Responsibilities

• Assist dietitians in managing nutritional care of patients.
• Send dietary resources and monitor equipment supplies.
• Coordinate patient events and manage stock of products.

Skills

Communication

IT skills

Teamwork

Proactiveness

Database management

Education

GCSE or equivalent

Basic Food Hygiene Certificate

NVQIII or RSA 3 level

Tools

MS Word

MS Outlook

MS Excel

Job description

Go back Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Dietetic Assistant - Paediatric Inherited Metabolic Disease

The closing date is 14 July 2025

This role is to join the current 0.6 WTE Dietetic Assistant in supporting the Paediatric Metabolic Dietitians as part of the multidisciplinary team in managing nutritional care of patients with inborn errors of metabolism. You would be joining a team of 5.1 WTE metabolic dietitians and 0.6 WTE dietetic assistant. Under the guidance of the dietitians you will actively participate and support the dietitians in the delivery of patients' nutritional care and education. In addition, you will actively be involved in the trusts clinical governance programme and quality agenda framework for ensuring continuing professional development, audit and research activities within this specialist area.

Main duties of the job

• Sending dietary resources, monitoring equipment and emergency supplies of prescription nutritional products to families
• Inform families of monitoring results
• Assist dietitians with audit and research
• Admin tasks including prescription requests and customs letters
• Managing stock of supplement and low protein products
• Generating patient resources including newsletters and patient information leaflets
• Coordinate patient events including group clinics and other events
• Arranging GP prescriptions and registering patients with home delivery companies
• Liaising with various feed companies to ensure dietitians have most current information

About us

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description/person specification for more information about the roles and responsibilities for this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications / Education

• Educated to GCSE (e.g. Maths, English, Science, Food & Nutrition or Technology) or NVQIII or RSA 3 level (in care, administration, customer services) or City & Guilds certificate or equivalent
• Basic Food Hygiene Certificate

Experience

• Responsible for administrative management
• Project management
• Working with and communicating with the general public
• Using information technology systems and software including databases and spreadsheets
• Working in a health care setting providing services to patients
• Handling food/food products, provision of food
• Working with children and carers
• Previous work as a dietetic assistant

Skills / Abilities

• Proficient use of PC/keyboard skills & working knowledge of MS Word, Outlook, Excel
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Proactive and ability to work on own initiative
• Ability to prioritise work under pressure
• Able to work as a team member
• Flexible and approachable
• Database management
• Able to use nutritional analysis packages

Knowledge

• Food and nutrition
• Audit
• Special diets and feeds in infancy and childhood
• Food hygiene

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.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

£31,944 to £34,937 a yearPer annum inc HCA pro rata