Dietetic Assistant

Job summary

We are looking for a new colleague to join our team of 35 dietitians, apprentices and support staff. This is a temporary post to cover colleague absence.

The successful candidate will manage stock levels of nutritional products, co-ordinating distribution, monitoring usage and re-ordering appropriately. You will support our clinical team in the management of patients requiring tube feeding at home and deal with telephone queries from patients and other health colleagues.

Main duties of the job

Support the Nutrition & Dietetics Service to meet the nutritional needs of patients in hospital and the community.

To manage stock levels of nutritional products, co-ordinating ward distribution monitoring usage and reordering appropriately.

To support dietitians in the management of patients requiring home tube feeding and deals with telephone queries from patients and other health colleagues.

To support with general office duties.

About us

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.