Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen on Ward 15 North Tyneside General Hospital. We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Nutrition Assistant who would welcome the opportunity of working within our Gastroenterology Team, providing support to patients with their nutritional needs.
If you feel you have the ability to work independently and as part of a pro-active team within a ward environment, have a caring and pleasant manner to deal with patients and visitors, and can work flexibly, this could be the role for you.
Experience of working within a hospital/caring environment is desirable. Knowledge and experience of computer skills is also desirable; however, full training will be provided for the I.T systems that you will be required to use to carry out your role.
Ward 15 is a busy 26-bedded unit which meets the needs of adult patients requiring in-hospital treatment for a range of gastroenterology and medical conditions.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main Duties of the Job
As a Nutrition Assistant, your main duties will be:
* Assisting the qualified nursing staff in promoting and providing nutritional support for patients, including assisting patients with meals and promoting additional nutritional snacks.
* Assisting patients with ordering their meals, ensuring dietary preferences are met, and assisting with feeding where appropriate.
* Keeping an updated record of any additional nutritional support required and provided.
* Monitoring stock levels of nutritional supplements and snacks and ordering appropriately to ensure sufficient stock is readily available for patients.
* Maintaining high standards of nutritional support to patients.
* Assisting in weight monitoring and risk assessments.
* Performing duties as designated by the Ward Manager, Sister, Charge Nurse, or Nurse in charge.
About Us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck, and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High-quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do, and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
All staff who are coming to work for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust or current staff who are new to the role of a Nutrition Assistant will be expected to undertake the Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Care Certificate Programme. This is a development programme mapped against the standards of the Care Certificate to facilitate your development as a Nutrition Assistant. Full participation in the programme is mandatory, and you will not be able to commence in clinical practice until you have completed the initial three days of the programme.
Job Responsibilities
* Assisting the qualified nursing staff in providing physical nutritional support for patients, including assisting with mealtimes and promoting additional nutritional snacks.
* Assisting patients with ordering their meals and feeding patients where appropriate.
* Auditing all nutritional interventions and reporting on nutritional intake to nursing staff.
* Keeping an updated record of additional nutritional support provided.
* Monitoring stock levels of nutritional supplements and snacks and ordering appropriately.
* Exercising accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
* Maintaining high clinical standards.
* Promoting nutrition in the ward.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Previous knowledge of patient care and needs.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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