Overview
We are excited to offer opportunities for assistant practitioners to join our collaborative team, leading nutrition related prescribing interventions and pathway optimisation across primary, community and secondary care. The initial focus will be on optimising malnutrition management across the ICB, with plans to expand into other areas of nutrition related prescribing. This post will cover the Cheshire and Merseyside area with three hubs across the patch:
* Liverpool, Sefton and Wirral
* East and West Cheshire
* Halton, Warrington, St Helens and Knowsley
Successful applicants will have the opportunity to preference which hub they would like to be based in. However, remote/hybrid working will mean staff will be expected to support across all areas.
The advert closes on Thursday 22 Jan 2026.
Responsibilities
* To contribute to the delivery of a range of clinical and health promotion tasks under the direct supervision of the Dietitian.
* To assist the Dietitians by being proactive in maximizing health and well being of service users by monitoring and reviewing service users on the wards and relaying their care plans and advice directly to service users and their carers and/or by telephone and email under the guidance of the Dietitians.
* Participating in and developing health promotional activities and working with ward based staff to provide regular health promotion literature and presentations.
* To report general observations and provide feedback to the qualified practitioner both verbally and in written formats as required, including any concerns arising from the service-users physical or mental health as appropriate.
* To carry out physical/anthropometrical measurements such as weight, height, waist circumference or alternative measurements (e.g. Hand Grip Strength) and provide feedback to the Dietitian both verbally and in written formats, as required.
* To contribute to the effective running of the service by providing and receiving information to/from other departments (e.g. catering) in the most effective way (telephone, fax, email or written).
* To ensure care plans are effectively communicated to service users, relatives, carers and the multidisciplinary team.
* To use a variety of verbal and non-verbal skills to overcome communication barriers presented by service users.
* To document assessments, reviews and care plans in service users’ medical notes according to Trust policy, including uploading documents onto service users’ medical records as required.
* To carry out specific duties that contribute to the assessment of service users' healthcare needs as requested by the Dietitian.
* As directed by the Dietitian, maintain and train ward staff to keep accurate charts that contribute to the assessment of a service user’s nutritional intake and associated physical conditions (e.g. diet and fluid charts, weight, oral intake) and hand over formally to a qualified dietitian.
* To prepare agreed assessment reports and treatment plans to assist the qualified practitioner with care planning.
* To send out written dietary information leaflets to patients and staff as instructed by the Dietitian.
* To deliver the structured MUST training session to clinical staff on request.
* Help with general admin duties, including developing resources as required.
Qualifications
* We will accept submissions from applicants who are band 3 and willing to work towards their Assistant Practitioner qualification.
About Mersey Care
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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