Dietetic Assistant

**Main area**
- Division B - Dietetics**Grade**
- Band 3**Contract**
- Permanent**Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week**Job ref**
- 180-B-233325**Employer**
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust**Employer type**
- NHS**Site**
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division B**Town**
- Cambridge**Salary**
- £22,816 - £24,336 p.a. pro rata**Salary period**
- Yearly**Closing**
- 26/11/2023 23:59**Interview date**
- 07/12/2023Job overview

**Would you like to work alongside and support 80+ Dietitians working in general and specialist areas and Wards across CUH for both Inpatients and Outpatients?**

**The Dietetic Assistant (DA) role involves face to face adult patient reviews on a variety of Wards, preparing GP prescriptions, Community referrals, ordering supplements and patient phone calls as part of your essential support to the Dietitians within the department. This post is a mix of clinical administration processes alongside face-to-face and virtual contact with patients. You will work under the direction and support of a range of Dietitians (Bands 5 - 8a) across a wide range of patient conditions.**

**The position is required to be on-site to assist the Dietitians with the changing demands of their acute caseloads and for supervision.**

**We are working towards, and supporting Dietetic Apprenticeships within the Department; working as a DA would be a pre-requisite to the Apprenticeship Scheme (if successful).**

Main duties of the job

**To support the Registered Dietitians in the provision of optimal**
**nutrition to patients in Cambridge University Hospitals NHS**
**Foundation Trust.**

Working for our organisation

**Our Trust**

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 11000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people - patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values - Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent - are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

The advert will close on the 26 November 2023.

**Benefits to you**

We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse, day nurseries and access to a great transport system with easy access to airports and rail travel.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases alternative working hours will be considered.

Person specification

**Qualifications**:
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 3 or equivalent level of knowledge and skill
- GCSE (Grade C or above) Maths and English or equivalent
- Willing to undertake further training in dietetic practice

Experience

Essential criteria
- Previous experience of working with people
- Work experience in a care environment

Desirable criteria
- Work experience with food and nutrition

Knowledge

Essential criteria
- Appreciates own limitations

Desirable criteria
- Understands the role of the Dietitian

**Skills**:
Essential criteria
- Good verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills
- Works well in a team under supervision and on own initiative when required
- Good time management skills, organised and flexible
- Able to manage a busy workload
- Ability to reflect and appraise own performance
- Able to use a computer and appropriate packages
- Ability to handle difficult and potentially distressing situations

Desirable criteria
- Demonstrates interest in the department
- Able to use e-Hospital (EPIC)

Additional Requirements

Essential criteria

The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent
- On-site working to support Dietetic staff

**Applicant requirements**:
**Further details / informal visits contact**:
**Name**
- Meg Barne

**Job title**
- Principal Critical Care and Neuro Dietitian

**Telephone number**
- 01223 216655