Band 4 Dietetic Assistant Practitioner

Job overview

***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received.  Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***

Please note, this is an internal vacancy and only employees of Birmingham Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC), Trust Bank and agency staff engaged with BCHC are eligible to apply at this time.

Are you a therapy support worker with an interest in nutrition and dietetics? Or a Dietetic Assistant looking for a different experience in the community? We are looking for an enthusiastic, organised, and self-driven individual to join our Learning Disabilities team. You will work closely within our team of dietitians, dietetic practitioners, apprentices, and nutrition nurses. Service users are seen in a variety of settings within Birmingham including their own homes, day centres, care homes, respite units, clinics, and colleges.  An ability to travel around the City transporting scales and other equipment, is essential to the role.

This post will involve delivering dietetic care independently and tasks as delegated by the community dietitians to assist in providing a quality dietetic service to service users. You will manage your own varied caseload which includes nutritional support, dysphagia, enteral feeding, and weight management, with the support and guidance of senior clinicians. 

This post will allow you to establish and enjoy the close relationship built with service users and their carers and to be a valued member of the multidisciplinary team. There are opportunities to spend time with specialist teams to enhance your professional growth.

Career development and staff support are given high priority in the Trust, making this a great place to work. Whatever your skills or experience in dietetics we encourage you to contact us for an informal discussion. 

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To work as part of the dietetic team to improve the nutritional intake of service users identified by the dietitian within care homes, day centres, service users own homes and respite units.

To contribute to ongoing implementation and evaluation of delegated caseload and reporting all clinical outcomes to managing dietitian to support re-assessments for people with learning disabilities.

To undertake clinical intervention utilising a variety of modes, including planning and leading groups and individual training as part of a package of care to include enteral tube management after achieving appropriate competencies evaluated by dietitians.

To deliver training and education on nutritional screening, good feeding practice and in raising the importance of nutrition.

To use knowledge and behaviour change skills to help patients cope with their condition, by overcoming practical and emotional barriers to improve their nutritional intake.

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Be Part of Our Team...

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.