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Clinical Support Worker (Higher): Dietetics - Adult Community
The closing date is 13 November 2025
We are looking for an enthusiastic and organised person, with excellent communication skills to join our friendly and dynamic team at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Our mission in the community Dietetic team is to use a patient‑centred approach to make a meaningful impact by educating, empowering and supporting. We enable people to feel seen and heard.
This is a busy role so candidates will need to be highly motivated and have a flexible approach to their role to ensure the needs of the service are met. You will need to be able to work under pressure using your own initiative.
It is vital that you have strong and confident communication skills when liaising with patients, carers and relatives and other health care professionals and the ability to develop good working relationships with a wide range of professionals working across health and social care. This post also offers exciting opportunities for continued development in a well‑established service.
You will need to be able to demonstrate knowledge and an interest in nutrition through qualifications and/or relevant experience.
This role supports an already established team of dietitians and discharge coordinator who manage patients who are tube fed at home.
The clinical caseload will require a mix of face‑to‑face and virtual service provision.
Main duties of the job
Working within defined scope of practice and service guidelines, key aspects of this role will include:
* Assessing the nutritional needs of non‑complex adult patients with a range of medical conditions.
* Devising programmes of dietetic care under dietetic supervision.
* Monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of dietary intervention and providing regular feedback to the supervising dietitian.
* Supporting the team with the discharge and ongoing administrative management of patients who are fed via a feeding tube in the community.
* Liaising with dietitians, community staff, home enteral feeding company, ward staff daily.
Full training will be provided but candidates must have a relevant qualification and must be able to demonstrate nutrition knowledge as well as excellent communication and organisational skills.
Our service delivers care across 2 primary care hospitals and within community settings across the South Tees locality; therefore successful candidate must have access to a vehicle for work purposes to meet the requirements of the role
Provisional interview date: 27th November 2025
About us
We support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our staff in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions: Your Leadership Impact, Service Improvement for Beginners.
After you complete these one and a half days of training, you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in‑house courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.
Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
* Numeracy and Literacy Level 2
* To have achieved a qualification at a minimum of NVQ level 3 or equivalent with a significant nutrition element or have equivalent experience
* Member of the British Dietetic Association
* To have completed the Care Certificate
Experience
* Experience of working or studying in health or social care
* Experience of working in an NHS care role.
* Experience of using electronic records systems i.e. SystmOne
Personal Attributes
* To be able to travel independently throughout the localities
Knowledge and Skills
* Can clearly demonstrate an interest in nutrition through relevant training and/or experience
* Can demonstrate good knowledge and experience of using Information Technology systems and software - including databases and spreadsheets
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer name
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
£24,937 to £26,598 a year per annum (pro rata)
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