Paediatric Community Dietetic Assistant

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 23,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Manchester is seeking a dietetic assistant to support clinical paediatric dietitians. The role involves both patient-facing duties and office-based tasks, including managing appointments and assisting with home enteral feeding. The ideal candidate will possess excellent organizational and interpersonal skills, with experience in a healthcare setting being advantageous. This band 3 position is offered at £22,816.

Qualifications

• Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills are required.
• Must be able to work independently and as part of a team.
• Experience in a healthcare setting, especially with children, is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Support clinical paediatric dietitians with patient assessments.
• Manage patient orders for home enteral feeding equipment.
• Visit patients in their homes and conduct clinical appointments.

Skills

Organizational skills

Interpersonal skills

Ability to work independently

Car driver/owner

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. This is a band 3 role at £22,816 which does not meet the threshold for visa sponsorship.

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. 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 one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of over £3bn. 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 30,000 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 Electronic Patient Record system launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. We're also embarking on our Green Plan, which sets out how MFT continues to make healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, and are committed to protecting your health and wellbeing as we shape the future of our organisation together.