Dietetic Assistant

1 week ago

London, United Kingdom King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Full time

**This role is split across two hospital sites**: the Princess Royal University hospital and the Denmark Hill site. The dietetic assistant will work closely with the dietitians to support the running of the department. Please refer to the job description and personal specifications for more details.
**Please note**:
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.8 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.
Administrative responsibilities
- General administrative tasks
- Ordering of general materials required for practice and monitoring stock
- Room bookings for meetings or ad-hoc clinics
- Coordination of meetings and associated administrative tasks

Assisting with stock management of enteral tube feeds and oral nutritional supplements within the hospital
- Liaison with enteral feeding and feed distribution companies with direction from the dietetic team
- Arranging update sessions, meetings with company reps and nutrition related activities
- Ensuring departmental information is up to date on the Intranet/website as directed by the dietetic clinical leadership team

Clinical responsibilities
- Facilitation of online group education sessions
- Working closely with dietitians to support with the administrative tasks associated with home enteral feeding discharges
- Championing the improvement of patient dining such as meal service support for the elderly care wards
- Inputting of food diaries into electronic nutritional analysis packages on behalf of the dietitian

Support in audit and development of clinical services
- Potential for up-skilling to review non-complex nutritional support plans or triage priority for dietetic assessment in certain patient cohort

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