Dietetic Assistant PractitionerinFrimleyinFrimleyPUBLISHED WED 2 APR 2025

Job Overview

We are seeking a dedicated, innovative and organised individual to join our growing and experienced team as our Dietetic Assistant Practitioner (12.75 hours per week). The post holder will be based at Frimley Park Hospital, within the Nutrition and Dietetics department, working with the Paediatric team.

You will work closely with the Dietitians to support the team in delivering high quality nutrition care by; developing and delivering group education sessions with patient groups and staff, home enteral nutrition patients, updating educational material, supporting patient related queries and stock control. If you have an interest in the role with excellent communication skills and an ability to manage you own workload then please contact us to find out more about the role.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will play a crucial role in providing Nutrition and Dietetic Support to individuals.
• The role supports the education of both staff and patients and ongoing monitoring to promote nutrition within the paediatric population group.
• The key area of focus for this role is to support the development and delivery of group education sessions to patients and their carers.
• You must have good communication skills and the ability to problem solve and use initiative to deal with varied queries.
• Good basic office and computer skills are required for this post as well as being able to work as a flexible and supportive team member.
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• To assist in the support and nutritional management of both inpatients and outpatients under the supervision of a Dietitian.
• To organise the ordering and distribution of nutritional supplements and feeds
• To provide patient related administrative support for the Dietitians and participate in secretarial duties with the dietetic secretaries
• To complete home enteral feeding registration and updates, GP letter prescriptions and sample requests on direction of Dietitians
• To work as an effective member of the dietetic team and contribute to the development of the dietetic service
• To support the departmental audit and training programme
  
  

Please See Attached Job Description And Personal Specification.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to GCSE or equivalent standard in Maths/English
• Undergone relevant theoretical and practical work-based training or holds academic/NVQ level III qualification
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Undergraduate degree in Nutrition or Public Health
• Member of British Dietetic Association as Dietetic Assistant
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Previous experience of working within public health
• Secretarial/administrative experience with record keeping
• Team working experience
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Presentation/group work skills
• Knowledge of stock monitoring
• Experience of collecting data
• Experience of working with patients
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Good understanding and the role of a Dietitian
• Enthusiasm for nutrition science
• Problem solving skills
• Good English written and verbal communication skills – able to deal with complex sensitive issues on a one to one basis/groups
• Organisational skills – organises own time and prioritises workload to meet conflicting service demands
• Ability to deal with distressing/uncomfortable situations
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment .

Our three core values , and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future .

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