Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, and Essex. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
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Job overview
NELFT Waltham Forest Nutrition and Dietetic Service is looking for an dietetic assistant, Band 3.
The post holder will ideally have previous experience of working in dietetics.
The role will involve supporting adult and paediatric dietitians. This support can involve patient reviews, nursing home visits, liaison with Nutricia regarding enteral feeding, referral updating and supporting group education
You should have well-developed communication skills with patients/ colleagues and be able to provide an initial response to patient and other agencies queries, concerns and sign post/direct as appropriate. You will also be able to prioritise your work, be a team player, use your initiative and meet deadlines.
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
Main duties of the job
As an employee of NELFT, you will receive the following benefits:
Excellent working environments in a mix of state of the art and historic buildings.
Agile working with outstanding ICT support.
A long-standing and award-winning approach to Equality and Diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities and LGBT staff.
Staff Benefits including NHS Pension, childcare vouchers, a salary sacrifice car scheme, the MyTrustBenefits discount scheme, cycle scheme and Annual Leave Sale/ Purchase scheme, trade union membership and a range of ambassadorial roles.
A focus on staff health and wellbeing featuring subsidised gym membership, access to Mindfulness, walking groups and other wellbeing support. We have signed the skills pledge and are an accredited Improving Working Lives organisation.
We are committed to staff development and offer opportunities which include a wide range of training options and an active Quality Improvement Programme