Employer: University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire
Town: Coventry
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 03/12/2024 23:59
Interview date: 18/12/2024
Dietetic Assistant Practitioner - Nutrition Team
NHS AfC: Band 4
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated dietetic assistant practitioner to join our trust multi-disciplinary nutrition team to support patients with intestinal failure and complex gastrointestinal disorders in this full-time (37.5hrs), 12-month fixed term, band 4 role.
You will work alongside the nutrition team dietitians to support the assessment, monitoring, and follow-up of patients with intestinal failure or complex nutrition support needs. You will provide support to patients on their individual dietary plans, take anthropometric measurements, and assist in the discharge processes and follow-up of patients under the care of the nutrition team. A key part of this role will be liaising with catering and training of ward staff.
You will be joining a dietetic department that already has established dietetic assistant practitioner posts within the nutrition team and other specialty areas who will be able to offer peer support.
Main duties of the job
• To work under the supervision of the Nutrition Team Dietitians to provide support with the oral dietary management and nutritional monitoring (documentation, anthropometrics, biochemical) of patients with intestinal failure or complex nutrition support needs in both the inpatient and outpatient setting.
• To assist in the discharge planning process for patients going home on enteral or parenteral nutrition.
• To work as part of the multidisciplinary Nutrition Team, under the supervision of the Nutrition Team Dietitians, supporting the provision of high-quality feeding practice and nutritional support at ward level and dietary education to patients.
• To work under the supervision of the Nutrition Team Dietitians to provide follow-up for patients requiring dietary manipulation, oral nutrition support, or enteral feeding, using behavioral management techniques to overcome barriers to change.
• To liaise with catering, nursing, and dietetic staff to ensure the provision of appropriate meals for in-patients with intestinal failure or complex gastrointestinal disorders.
• To assist in menu planning including carrying out dietary analysis as appropriate.
• To obtain patients' weight, height, calculate BMI, and check Nutrition Risk Score (‘MUST’) as appropriate.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.
We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high-quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.
By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• To measure patient’s anthropometry (i.e., mid upper arm circumference, tricep skinfold thickness, hand grip dynamometry, and bed scale weights) in selected patients to monitor nutritional status.
• To obtain patients’ biochemical results using the electronic patient record (EPR) as requested by Dietitians using defined criteria.
• To review selected patients (inpatient or outpatient telephone follow-up) with a care plan in place by Nutrition Team Dietitians to assess progress towards goals.
• To encourage patients to eat and drink their prescribed nutrition to maximize their nutritional intake and status.
• To liaise with Nutrition Team Dietitians and ward staff regarding patients monitoring and progress.
• To review prescriptions of nutritional supplements and snacks within agreed boundaries.
• To deliver feeding products and equipment to wards for patients being discharged on artificial feeding as requested by Nutrition Team Dietitians.
Person specification
Qualifications
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Experience
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Knowledge
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Skills
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To ensure that we provide world-class patient care, UHCW recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
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