Senior Dietetic Assistant

The nutrition and dietetic service has recently investment and is excited to offer this newly created band 4 senior dietetic assistant post.

The successful candidate will work in the community supporting patients in their own homes or residential/nursing home. Our caseload includes support for patients with a variety of different clinical conditions, for example: cancer, dementia, respiratory diseases and age related illness. This includes enteral feeding.

We work closely with our community colleagues across the MDT including district nurses, specialist nurses and speech and language therapy colleagues to provide high quality patient care.

Strong communication and time management skills are essential to allow you to independently manage a caseload with support from the qualified dietitians and team leaders.

The are also opportunities to be included in training sessions for other health professionals on malnutrition screening and awareness.

You will be involved in dietetic student training.

Main duties of the job

To support qualified dietitians in assessing and treating patients who may be discharged from hospital or living in the community with a range of conditions

Complete lower level assessments or re-assessment with support

To deliver training to other health professionals and key stake holders

To support student training

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.