Dietetic Assistant practitioner Home Enteral Nutrition

Job Role
Dietetic Assistant practitioner Home Enteral Nutrition
Band 4: £27,485 - £30,162
37.5 hours per week
Permanent
Responsibilities
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Assistant Practitioner (AP) to join the Locala Home Enteral Nutrition (HEN) Team in South Kirklees (Huddersfield Area) on a permanent contract. We are looking for an enthusiastic, innovative, and proactive AP with excellent clinical, communication and team working skills.
This post offers opportunities to provide clinical and admin support to the Home Enteral Nutrition Team (HEN), who manage patients in the community.

In this role, you'll work closely with the HEN Dietitians & Nutricia Nurses to care for patients who are tube-fed at home - many of whom have complex neurological conditions such as Motor Neurone Disease (MND), Multiple Sclerosis (MS) learning disabilities and other challenging health needs. You'll play a key role in helping us deliver high-quality, person-centred care alongside other community-based professionals such as Speech and Language Therapists, Physiotherapists, Specialist Nurses, to provide joined-up care that supports patients in remaining at home safely. There will be opportunity to attend MDT's and proactively contribute to support our patients.

The role requires emotional resilience and sensitivity, as you will be supporting patients and families through challenging situations, including end-of-life care.

What You'll Be Doing
Help to order and keep track of nutritional products, feeds, supplements, prescriptions, following guidance from Dietitians. Using SystmOne and the Nutricia Homeward platform

Registering patients on the relevant systems

Collecting relevant patient data to support the dietitian in feed regime planning.

Weighing patients using various types of scales (hoist, stand-on, wheelchair) and keeping records up to date.

For an informal chat about this opportunity, please contact Theresa Dickinson at

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For full details of the role please see Job description and person specification
Closing date - 28/11/2025
Shortlisting - 1/12/2025
Interviews - 18/12/2025
We reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the stated date should we receive sufficient applications
About Us
Here at Locala we are part of the community and have often cared for generations within the same family and continue to be part of the NHS family also delivering care under the same ethos.
Locala Health and Wellbeing embraces diversity and inclusion and encourages applicants from people from all backgrounds with our ambition to have a workforce that represents the wider communities we live and work within, which you can support us to achieve.

We are an organisation that celebrates and values the individuality of our colleagues lived experiences and can adapt accordingly, recognising the value inclusivity brings when delivering equitable, high quality healthcare to our local communities. Where everyone feels valued, has the ability to develop, has flexible working opportunities, with a sense of belonging, supported by our Inclusivity Groups.

"Locala is a 'Disability Confident' employer and as such any disabled applicants who meets all the essential criteria are guaranteed to be invited to the assessment process."
Just a few of the benefits you can enjoy:-

• Flexible working - We are committed to supporting our colleagues to have a good work-life balance and welcome conversations about flexible working wherever possible.
• Generous pension - We offer a generous, defined contribution, pension scheme with matched contribution + 2% up to a maximum of 8%
• Refer a Friend Scheme - If you know a friend or family member who works at Locala on a substantive contract, you may be able to take advantage of our Refer a Friend Scheme. You both could receive a reward of £500 each, after you have successfully started your role with us.