Dietetic Support Worker, Band 3

The successful candidate will provide after a period of training the post holder will be able to provide support with clinical tasks and clinical information to see whether dietetic input is required, dietary analysis and patient facing tasks such as nutritional screening and with nutrition support reviews under the guidance of the dietitians., We are a large friendly department based on 2 sites; Cheltenham General Hospital (CGH) & Gloucestershire Royal Hospital (GRH).The team is also made up of the Home Enteral Feeding Team (HEFT).
Within the department at GRH we have a team of Acute Dietitians, Renal Dietitians, Paediatric Dietitians and a Home Enteral Feed Team. At CGH we have a team of Oncology Dietitians as well as the Acute team. We also have a Nutrition Support Team, a Specialist Gastroenterology Team and Specialist Diabetes Dietitians working on both hospital sites. Our teams include dietitians, dietetic support workers, dietetic assistants and nurses.
We are committed to continual professional development and support audit and quality improvement projects.
Gloucestershire is a great area of the country to live in, with many areas of outstanding natural beauty, as well as excellent travel networks to the rest of the country., The administrative element to the role will include the day-to-day co-ordination of the renal and acute dietetic service. Involving tasks such as inpatient statistics, updating databases, booking appointments, sending letters, checking & updating wards list including discharge tasks.[INS: :INS] The team member will be answering and co-ordinating calls from patients, inpatient wards and other health care professions.
There is scope for helping with group education and audits[DEL: :DEL] as part of this role too. Responsibility will also be taken for maintaining stock levels of resources including diet sheets, nutritional supplements and other additional leaflets/resources used regularly by the dietitians.
This post would be ideal for someone with good computer literacy with a working knowledge of software programmes such as Excel, Word, and trust systems e.g. TRAK, Infoflex, Sunrise EPR. Excellent communication skills, attention to detail and an ability to co-ordinate and work in a team are essential.
The health and wellbeing of our staff and patients remains the priority of the Trust. Vaccination remains the best chance we have of conquering COVID and the Trust encourages everyone to take up this offer.
Please note, this vacancy may close as soon as sufficient applications have been received, so please apply as soon as possible if you are interested. The Recruitment Team are unable to accept any applications after the position has closed on NHS Jobs.

Band 3
Join us at an exciting time for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust! We have an ambitious plan for our journey to Outstanding and are looking for aspirational, committed individuals to join us, making a real difference to both staff and patients.
As a former winner of England for excellence award: Tourism destination of the year, the beautiful city of Gloucester and the scenic regency spa town of Cheltenham are fantastic places to work and live.
As a hospital Trust we are currently involved in over 100 clinical trials and studies, whilst also providing acute elective and specialist services to a population of over 620,000.
By joining Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust new colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome and a future full of opportunities and support.