About this role
Job summary
Leicestershire Nutrition and Dietetic Service (Community) have a number of vacancies for Dietetic Support Workers to join our innovative Dietetic Prescribing Support service in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland supporting the Dietitians in delivering dietetic care to patients and their carers.
Leicester Nutrition and Dietetic Service (Community) has a team of approximately 90 staff, made of Dietitians, Community Nutritionists, Dietetic Support Workers and Support Team Staff covering the population of Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland.
Applicants must hold a full driving licence and have access to a car during working hours
Base: to be agreed, depending on geographical area covered
Interested?
For more information contact Faye Edwards on 07717 646326 [email protected] or Nazrana Quareshy on 07786051964 [email protected]
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities
The post offers the opportunity to be a member of the dietetic prescribing team and will work across the health care community, including GP surgeries and care homes, and provide support to the Dietitians in managing patients care plans.
The role will include some administrative duties such as booking visits, updating spreadsheets etc.
The work will be in different locations across the city and county and a car driver is essential.
The caseload is currently adults.
You will have support from our friendly existing teams. We are looking for Dietetic Support Workers who have good team working, communication and IT skills and can work independently. Experience in this area of practice would be advantageous.
The service is committed to CPD and personal development and we have good clinical supervision models and in-house CPD in place to support you.
The service is involved in the pre-registration placements for student dietitians undertaking A, B and C placements.
About us
We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.
About Us
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.
Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.
We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.
For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).
All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.
For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.
Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.
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Employer details Employer name Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
Address OSL House, East Link
Meridian Business Park
Leicester
Leicestershire
LE19 1XU
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)