Dietetic Assistant Practitioner | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

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.

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., Disability Confident
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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.