Hampshire Hospitals are looking for a dietetic assistant is to work alongside our paediatric dietitians to provide a high quality, compassionate health care to the patients under the care of the diabetes service at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Arrange and organise annual review appointments with patients under the diabetes paediatric service
Undertake dietary analysis of food diaries using the department dietary software package
To be actively involved in training of students and practitioners from all health and social care professions as appropriate
To assist the dietitians in preparing outpatient clinics
Providing cover for the other paediatric dietetic assistant as and when required
To work within the British Dietetic Associations’ Dietetic Support Worker and Assistant Practitioner Competency Framework
Take an active role within diabetes education sessions
Record dietetic contacts to help provide workload statistics for the team
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Arrange and organise annual review appointments with patients under the diabetes paediatric service
Take an active role within diabetes education sessions
Involved in dietetic team admin eg recording dietetic contacts, sending dietary information, organising nutritional products, liaising with nutritional product companies, referral process, support with home enteral feed products, phone answering, message recording
Support Dietitians with newly diagnosed diabetes patients on the ward
Support Dietitians with review of ward pateints
Undertake dietary analysis of food diaries using the department dietary software package
Attend meetings and take minutes
Preparing clinics – sending out letters for coeliac clinic
Involvement in student support
To work within the British dietetic Associations Dietetic Worker and Assistant Practitioner Competency framework
