Bank Public Health Dietetic Assistant Practitioner

Do you have experience engaging with communities, supporting healthy lifestyles or weight management services? Would you like to bring your skills to our supportive, innovative, high achieving public health dietetic team at Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board? The opportunity has arisen to employ a team of Dietetic Assistant Practitioners to work with communities across Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board to deliver a range of community based initiatives, to support weight management services. Staff will utilise a range of agreed approaches to support positive changes to food, nutrition, and physical activity behaviours, with signposting to the local services on offer. The successful candidates will receive a range of training opportunities to support them in this role and they will work alongside fellow Dietetic Assistant Practitioners in Public Health Dietetics; under the guidance of the Senior Public Health Dietitians. They will receive weekly supervision sessions with a registered dietitian and will work closely with a range of partner agencies to promote positive healthy lifestyle behaviours. All post holders will work relatively independently, working to an agreed framework with a degree of autonomy and will be responsible and accountable for these tasks. This will involve having their own caseload and working with a range of partners and organisations in a complex community environment.,

• To plan, develop, coordinate and deliver nutrition based group education sessions, practical cooking skills and community based nutrition interventions to a range of audiences, under the direction of Specialist Public Health Dietitians
• To contribute to team and community needs assessments, to plan and implement nutrition and health promoting activities under direction of Specialist Public Health Dietitians
• To review, monitor and coordinate progression of nutrition training packages and food initiatives for a range of community based partners, under the guidance of Specialist Public Health Dietitians and in line with recognised standards
• To motivate, guide and encourage participants to participate in health promoting activities, monitor their progress and report outcomes/findings to the team or wider partners
• To work autonomously and under own initiative on specific projects, as agreed with supervising Public Health Dietitian, seeking advice and support as necessary
• To maintain clear and accurate records in line with professional and departmental standards; recording and collating activity, evaluation and outcome data pertinent to role and Public Health Dietetic team
  
  All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
  
  Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf. We live by our core values: + We listen, learn and improve + We treat everyone with respect + We all work together as one team We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.