Dietetic Support Worker

The Integrated Nutrition and Dietetic Service is based across acute and community settings. This primarily based in Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport.

You will work supporting the Nutrition and Dietetic team in providing a safe, effective and evidence based service. The role is imperative in the busy department and there will be opportunities for training from the dietitians in areas of nutrition and dietetics. The role requires excellent communication and team working skills, as well as the ability to work autonomously within scope of practice and with designated patients.

The Dietetic Support Worker assists the dietitians in certain aspects of this work including:

- Liaising with the dietitians and following plans of care for patient follow up
- Actively participate within group education under the supervision of the dietitian.
- Data entry regarding product orders
- Assisting with the daily supply of dietetic products to wards and departments
- A working knowledge of different products and their clinical use is required.
- Assisting selected patients on the wards to choose preferred and clinically suitable food and drinks, under the supervision of a dietitian.
- Responsible for the service ordering of supplies and consumables.
- To ensure stock rotation/monitoring, processing electronic orders, liaison with Stores Department as appropriate.

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:

- Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- NHS pension scheme membership
- Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
- NHS Staff discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
- Stockport Credit Union
- for local financial advice

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**Responsibilities**:

- To deal courteously and efficiently with incoming telephone calls from healthcare professionals, patients and members of the public. Liaise, where necessary, with dietitians or action as appropriate to role
- Office administration. Provide cover for some secretarial duties during leave
- Assist with the supply of therapeutic dietary products and equipment to the service.
- Check stock deliveries against delivery notes where required.
- Assist the dietitians with monitoring of product supplier company performance against contract.
- Assist dietitians with the arrangements for patients on tube feeds. This may include completing computerised registration for the home feed service, telephone calls and faxes to GP surgeries, liaison with community dietitians and the home feed service company. Enter data as needed into log tables.
- Assist certain patients on the wards to choose and consume clinically appropriate food and drinks from the relevant therapeutic diet menu under the supervision of a dietitian.
- Provide follow-up support to selected patients who have been seen first by the dietitian and monitor nutritional care plan
- Provide support to dietitians regarding future menu development
- Gather information for referrals made to the dietitian
- Actively participate within group education under the supervision of the dietitian
- Attend Trust mandatory training.
- Attend and participate in meetings as required
- Provide training on malnutrition universal screening tool where required.
- Attend catering meetings
- Support nutritional analysis using computer software, where required
- Participate in mealtime observation audits
- Adhere to the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and British Dietetic Association (BDA) Standards of Proficiency and Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
- Understand the scope of the role and know the limits of practice and when to seek advice.

See attached job description for further information.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.

If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £41.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary

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