Dietetic Support Worker - Acute team inTorquay inTorquay PUBLISHED 15 JUN 2024

To carry out assigned tasks and duties that support and complement the work of dietitians based at Torbay Hospital. This includes collecting patient information from inpatients and outpatients, to aid dietetic assessment and monitoring progress with dietetic plans.

The dietetic support worker will work as part of a team sharing responsibility for the smooth running of the acute dietetic service. This post will support the acute dietitians with the day-to-day care of both inpatients and outpatients. Part of the job will be based on the intensive care unit directly providing nutritional care for our patients by supporting food choices, taking measurements of body composition and inputting data into a database. The role includes review of patients nutritional care plans on the wards or via telephone, administration to support the dietitians (including catering projects and overseeing supplies of oral nutritional supplements) and project work to raise the profile of the team, including training to ward staff to optimise food choices and updating the team website.

Why Work With Us


About Your New Team And Department

• This post is based at Torbay Hospital with the Acute team dietitians.
• The Acute team is part of the wider dietetic team including Community, Diabetes, Paediatrics, Weight Management, and Cancer Servcies. The team has over 40 staff members – dietitians, dietetic support workers and admin support.
• The team is actively involved with training of student Dietitians from Plymouth University.
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Deborah Howland Job title: Specialist Dietitian and Acute Team Lead Email address: Telephone number:

Or contact Liz Wardle, Head of Nutrition & Dietetic

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