We continue to look for ways to develop our workforce and have experience supporting our Dietetic Assistant Practitioners interested in becoming registered Dietitians through their Dietetic apprenticeships.
This post will involve countywide travel in Warwickshire, so you must have independent means of transport.
Responsibilities
* To assist the Specialist Dietitians to facilitate the discharge of patients on enteral feeds in a planned and effective manner.
* To assist the Specialist Dietitians to ensure adults and children receiving enteral feeding at home receive and use the correct equipment, ancillaries and enteral feeds.
* To assist the Specialist Dietitians to monitor patients requiring nutritional intervention via enteral feeding tubes.
* To monitor and review patients on established feeding regimens, using a range of techniques including anthropometric measurements and recommend changes within assessed competency level.
* To monitor and review adults with a diagnosed Neurological condition that have established dietetic plans in place, using a range of techniques including anthropometric measurements and recommend changes within assessed competency level.
* To assess and advise on short-term issues with established patients on enteral feeding following an agreed flowchart escalating when required.
* To provide training and support to patients and carers on routine feeding tube care to prevent complications.
* To assess problems to prevent tube complications, undertake procedures, advise on treatment of stoma and tube problems within assessed competency level, providing and ordering spare parts as required.
* To undertake clerical duties relating to the cost effective provision of the enteral feeding service including using electronic patient systems.
Qualifications
We are looking for a self‑motivated Dietetic Assistant Practitioner who has experience of working in a health, social care or education setting to support our Specialist Dietitians to deliver a high‑quality service to tube‑fed adults and children in their own homes and care homes in Warwickshire.
Previous experience working in a role that supports nutrition & hydration or working in a dietetic department is beneficial. Previous experience of working with patients with stomas or feeding tubes and working with children and families would be advantageous.
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. The survey can be accessed via the link: https://forms.office.com/e/ahWY3eAGM2
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