Public Health Dietetic Assistant Practitioner

3 weeks ago


Cardiff, United Kingdom Cardiff and Vale University Health Board Full time

Job overview

Exciting opportunities have arisen to be part of the Public Health Dietetic Team within Cardiff and Vale UHB as a Band 4 Dietetic Assistant Practitioner targeting a range of population groups. There are several positions and we are looking for passionate individuals to work in the following areas:
Early Years

School age

Adults

The Public Health dietetic team work with partners to build the capacity of communities, working through our Nutrition Skills for Life programme to support healthy lifestyles and prevent malnutrition. Our aim is to equip community-based staff with the nutrition knowledge and skills to incorporate nutrition messages into their work, employ more local people as community food workers and strengthen community food and nutrition input into areas of health inequality.

Main duties
- skills and qualities

The post holders will have an interest in food and nutrition and experience of working in the community or with the specific population groups mentioned. You will be an excellent communicator and understand some of the challenges our population might experience.

Under the supervision of a senior Dietitian you will be delivering nutrition interventions in the community across Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan. These interventions would include delivering practical cooking skills, nutrition and healthy eating messages to groups and to families in their own home as part of the Early Years post.

The post holders will be working predominantly in areas of high deprivation with a population with diverse and complex health and social needs.

The successful applicant will require daily access to a car, due to this being a community-based role. They will be required to go to different venues across Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, transporting cooking/ course equipment and accessing a storage unit.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 15,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving around 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services.

Our mission is “Caring for People, Keeping People Well”, and our vision is that every person’s chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. As an organisation we are unashamedly ambitious for our population’s health, rising to the challenges of today and tomorrow through our 10-year strategy, Shaping our Future Wellbeing. We are contributing to a healthier Wales with great emphasis placed on innovation and improvement, learning from around the world and leading the way in clinical research. Partnership working is strong at Cardiff and Vale, and we work closely with our staff and our community.

Cardiff, the thriving Welsh capital, is a fantastic city to live and work in with an abundance of sports, arts and cultural attractions. Situated to the west of Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan offers a combination of beautiful Welsh countryside and a dramatic natural coastline. Whether city life or rural living, Cardiff and the Vale offers the best of both worlds.



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