Dietetic Healthcare Assistant Practitioner - Gastroenterology

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional health and social care organization is seeking a Dietetic Assistant Practitioner in Peterborough. You'll join a supportive team providing dietary advice for IBS, manage your own caseload, and offer care across various settings. This role requires experience in healthcare, effective communication, and a valid UK driving licence. Full training is provided, making it an excellent opportunity for those looking to advance their skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in health care is essential.
• Ability to manage own caseload.
• Driving licence valid for the UK and ability to travel.

Responsibilities

• Provide first line dietary advice for IBS.
• Support specialist dietitians.
• Deliver health care to patients in various settings.
• Perform administrative tasks for dietitians.

Skills

Motivated

Compassionate

Good communication skills

Organisational skills

Job description

Overview

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to progress your skills as a Dietetic Assistant Practitioner? Do you want to be part of a supportive team that makes a difference? Then this post, working to support people and carers with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), could be for you. This unique and rewarding role plays an integral part within the gastroenterology dietetic team, working closely with the specialist dietitians, giving first line dietary advice for IBS. Full training will be given but experience in health care essential.

Role and responsibilities

• Work within the gastroenterology dietetic team, providing first line dietary advice for IBS and supporting the specialist dietitians.
• Join a multi-professional team in a community setting providing care, support and dietetic treatment within protocols and guidelines to patients with IBS.
• Deliver high standards of health care to patients in their own homes, care homes, the travelling community and in clinics (telephone, video or face to face as required).
• Manage your own caseload with support from registered dietitians as needed.
• Assess and negotiate dietary changes based on a patient’s symptoms and dietary intake; follow up progress.
• Perform administrative tasks for the dietitians and assist with audit work as required.
• Weigh patients and take other anthropometrical measurements; use IT packages as part of practice.

Requirements and qualifications

• Full training will be provided; experience in health care is essential.
• Motivated, compassionate and dynamic person with good communication and organisational skills.
• Ability to travel around the county; driving licence valid for the UK. Minimum of 28 hours per week would be required; there may be flexibility around hours for the right candidate.
• This post can be based at any of our 4 sites. An ability to travel without using public transport is essential.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life. Our clinical teams deliver NHS services in inpatient, primary care and community settings across children’s, adult and older people’s mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development. We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long-term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities. Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.