Advanced Dietetic Assistant

5 months ago


London, United Kingdom Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Critical Care dietetic team at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust as an advanced dietetic assistant (band 4) with a focus on chronic respiratory failure and neuromuscular disorders. This post will support the Band 7 Chronic Respiratory Failure dietitian and form part of the critical care dietetic team consisting of 7 dietitians (1 consultant dietitian, 1 8a, 3 x band 7, 2 x band 6).

You will be joining a friendly, dynamic and forward-thinking team who provide a patient centered approach to care. We strive to deliver and contribute to evidence based practice by conducting high level research, audit and service evaluation. We support individual personal and professional development and are passionate about health and wellbeing.

The post will be based at St Thomas’s Hospital (STH) and at Lane Fox Remeo Satellite unit in Redhill, Surrey a minimum of once a week (travel costs are covered). Main duties will include:

- Under supervision, to review oral nutrition support (ONS) patients on the wards.
- Providing assessment and advice for patients requiring weight management support.
- Providing practical dietary support e.g. snack rounds, supporting meal times.
- Undertaking a weekly telephone clinic
- Administrative support for the gastrostomy multi-disciplinary meeting.
- Gastrostomy discharge planning.
- Once competency completed arrange discharge equipment, ancillaries and paperwork (feed regimen etc.).
- Undertaking regular anthropometric inpatient measurements
- Contributing to innovative service development e.g. developing group education sessions.
- Supporting and continuing to develop the catering provision for patients at both STH and Remeo (ongoing menu development) including close liaison with the Remeo catering team.
- Support the development of new dietetic resources e.g. diet sheets, information leaflets.
- Stock management including feed and supplements, feeding pumps and plastics across critical care and Remeo.
- Maintaining patient databases

This post will support the Band 7 Chronic Respiratory Failure dietitian and form part of the critical care dietetic team consisting of 7 dietitians (1 consultant dietitian, 1 8a, 3 x band 7, 2 x band 6).

The department of Nutrition and Dietetics is made up of an Adult and Paediatric Nutrition workforce of over 100 staff, generating an income of over 10m. This is a highly complex service, delivering highly specialised Dietetics as part of clinical services across the Trust, and into the Community, including providing professional guidance for our catering services and ensuring our compliance with Nutrition Standards for the Trust.

Please refer to person specification, job description and role descriptor for full details relating to the job.



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