Dietetic Assistant Practitioner - Home Enteral Feeding

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust; Radford Semele; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in Radford Semele is seeking a self-motivated Dietetic Assistant Practitioner to assist Specialist Dietitians in providing high-quality service to tube-fed adults and children. Responsibilities include monitoring patients on enteral feeds and providing training to patients and carers. Ideal candidates will have experience in a health or social care setting. Join where care is 'trusted to be safe, effective, and compassionate'.

Qualifications

• Experience working in a health, social care, or education setting.
• Experience supporting nutrition & hydration.
• Familiarity with dietetic departments is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Assist Specialist Dietitians with patient discharge on enteral feeds.
• Train patients and carers on feeding tube care.
• Monitor and review patients on established feeding regimens.

Skills

Self-motivated

Experience in health or social care

Knowledge of nutrition & hydration

Experience with feeding tubes

Experience with stomas

Job description

Overview

We continue to look for ways to develop our workforce and have experience supporting our Dietetic Assistant Practitioners interested in becoming registered Dietitians through their Dietetic apprenticeships.

Key Requirements

This post will involve countywide travel in Warwickshire, so you must have independent means of transport.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Specialist Dietitians to facilitate the discharge of patients on enteral feeds in a planned and effective manner.
• Assist the Specialist Dietitians to ensure adults and children receiving enteral feeding at home receive and use the correct equipment, ancillaries and enteral feeds.
• Assist the Specialist Dietitians to monitor patients requiring nutritional intervention via enteral feeding tubes.
• Monitor and review patients on established feeding regimens, using a range of techniques including anthropometric measurements and recommend changes within assessed competency level.
• Monitor and review adults with a diagnosed neurological condition that have established dietetic plans in place, using a range of techniques including anthropometric measurements and recommend changes within assessed competency level.
• Assess and advise on short‑term issues with established patients on enteral feeding following an agreed flowchart, escalating when required.
• Provide training and support to patients and carers on routine feeding tube care to prevent complications.
• Assess problems to prevent tube complications, undertake procedures, advise on treatment of stoma and tube problems within assessed competency level, and provide and order spare parts as required.
• Undertake clerical duties relating to the cost‑effective provision of the enteral feeding service, including using electronic patient systems.

Qualifications & Experience

We are looking for a self‑motivated Dietetic Assistant Practitioner who has experience of working in a health, social care or education setting to support our Specialist Dietitians to deliver a high‑quality service to tube‑fed adults and children in their own homes and care homes in Warwickshire.

Previous experience working in a role that supports nutrition & hydration or working in a dietetic department is beneficial. Previous experience of working with patients with stomas or feeding tubes and working with children and families would be advantageous.

Benefits & Values

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford‑Upon‑Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston‑on‑Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Our values can be summed up in one sentence: We are 'Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.