Dietetic Support Worker

3 days ago


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

An exciting opportunity has arisen to be part of the Public Health Dietetic Team within Cardiff and Vale UHB as a Band 3 Dietetic Support Worker working across a range of population groups, but with a special interest in early years.

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.

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 have an understanding of some of the challenges our population might experience.

Under the supervision of a senior Dietitian and Dietetic Assistant Practitioner 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 community settings.

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

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

**Our Values**: ‘CARING FOR PEOPLE; KEEPING PEOPLE WELL’

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board has an important job to do. What we do matters because it’s our job to care for people and keep them well. We all want to do this to the best of our abilities - but we know that good intentions are not always enough.

At Cardiff and Vale University Health Board our values and example behaviours are:

- We care about the people we serve and the people we work with
- Treat people as you would like to be treated and always with compassion
- We trust and respect one another - Look for feedback from others on how you are doing and strive for better ways of doing things
- We take personal responsibility - Be enthusiastic and take responsibility for what you do.
- We treat people with kindness - Thank people, celebrate success and when things go wrong ask ‘what can I learn’?
- We act with integrity
- Never let structures get in the way of doing the right thing.

Our values guide the way we work and the way we behave with others. Post holders will be expected at all times to behave in accordance with our values demonstrating commitment to the delivery of high quality services to patients.



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