Dietetic Assistant Practitioner: Sponsorship Available

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, compassionate and driven individual to join our dietetic team at Salford Care Organisation working within the Greater Manchester Oesophago-gastric surgical centre

You will join our Gastro Dietetic Team consisting of an ACP, Band 7s, Band 6s, Band 5 and Dietetic assistants who form part of the Salford dietetic team, which consists of nearly 70 team members across acute and community including assistants and admin.

The role will ensure that every patient with an UGI cancer diagnosis receives timely nutritional monitoring and advice preparing them for their treatment pathway and beyond.

Main duties of the job

The role will involve working alongside the Dietitians and Dietetic Assistant in UGI cancer to deliver optimised care for patients across Greater Manchester. You will support our patients during their treatment pathway from diagnosis, preparing them for oncological and surgical treatment and post-operatively on the ward following surgery for Oesophago-gastric surgery.

The role will involve face-face contact with inpatients including delivery of our snack round and arranging home enteral feed discharges including training. You will have your own outpatient caseload of follow up calls to assess tolerance to supplements and dietetic treatment plan. This is a primarily clinical role but will include some administrative tasks associated with the management of UGI patients in the community.

A formal Assistant Practitioner qualification is desirable, but a similar alternative qualification would be accepted and willingness to work towards this qualification.

We require a motivated, compassionate and dynamic person to work within this established service. Ideally you will have experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team, experience of treating patients and working in an acute setting with patients. Good communication skills, empathy and flexibility are essential qualities.

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values – care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • 5 GCSE or equivalent including English and Maths

Desirable

  • NVQ level 2 or equivalent in healthcare
  • Enteral tube feeding training
  • Principles in cancer care programme

Knowledge, Training & Experience

Essential

  • Experience of team working
  • Previous experience of working with people with illness, injury or physical disability in a healthcare setting
  • To demonstrate an awareness and understanding of supporting equality and valuing diversity within their role
  • Interest in the role of nutrition and hydration in health and disease

Desirable

  • Familiarity with a ward setting
  • Previous experience as a Health Care (Support) worker
  • Previous experience of enteral feeding tube management
  • Good understanding of dietetic principles
  • Experience of feeding or supporting patients at mealtimes

Skills & Abilities

Essential

  • IT skills including Word and Excel
  • Good communication skills
  • To demonstrate an awareness and understanding of supporting equality and ? Working within an MDT or team working ? Skilled to use a VDU for several hours daily to input patient data and facilitate 8 valuing diversity within their role
  • Ability to travel to different geographical locations either through use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs

Desirable

  • Working within an MDT or team working
  • Skilled to use a VDU for several hours daily to input patient data and facilitate 8 valuing diversity within their role. ? Ability to travel to different geographical locations either through use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs. service development
  • Exposure to distressing or emotional circumstances e.g. patients dying, patients struggling to cope with poor rehabilitation potential

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 19 November 2024

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