Nutrition Assistant

6 months ago


Bristol, United Kingdom North Bristol NHS Trust Full time

Are you interested in helping patients meet their nutritional needs? If yes, we have an interesting and varied job opportunity as a Nutrition Assistant, working with our staff across two acute medical wards.

This post will involve communicating about nutrition with patients and ward staff. This is a newly developed role. We want to trial this for 12 months and the postholder will be expected to monitor the benefits to the patients, carers and ward staff.

The role will include supporting patient mealtimes, monitoring nutritional care plans, supporting nutritional screening of patients, educating patients, families, ward staff and updating patient records.

The post is a full time, 12-month fixed term position (37.5hrs per week), with a start time of either 7am or 11am which cover 2 patient meal times.
- Supporting patients at meal times.
- Supporting patients with snacks.
- Supporting the ward team with nutritional assessment and review.
- Collecting data.
- Supporting and educating patients and families around nutrition.

North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead. We are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialities. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.

North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.

Bristol is consistently voted the best place to live in the UK, with vibrant local music, arts and gastronomic scenes, a wide range of modern and state of the art shopping, recreation and leisure facilities, a wealth of great local family days out, fantastic transport links for local, national and internal holidays, and it has a rich history. If you prefer country, village or smaller town living, our Trust is also easily commutable from a range of attractive locations in North Somerset, South Gloucestershire and South Wales (such as Portishead or Chepstow).

This post will involve communicating about nutrition with patients and ward staff. This is a newly developed role. We want to trial this for 12 months and the postholder will be expected to monitor the benefits to the patients, carers and ward staff.

The role will include supporting patient mealtimes, monitoring nutritional care plans, supporting nutritional screening of patients, educating patients, families, ward staff and updating patient records.


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