Home Enteral Feeding Dietetic Assistant Practitioner

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Skills in home tube feeding and be part of a team striving to improve health, quality of life and care experience for patients, then look no further. You would be part of our supportive dietetic team in NHFT. This post will help manage the deliveries for tube feeding items, be a first point of contact for patient queries and support the HEF dietitian teams with their caseloads.

Main duties of the job

The role includes:

- Supporting and assisting the HEF team in the management of patients using home tube feeding. This includes elements of clinical and administrative work.

- Use of electronic systems (support will be provided).

- Understanding tube feeding equipment to support team in administrative processes for tube changes, ordering of equipment, troubleshooting and replacement of equipment.

- To assist in the monitoring of equipment usage.

- Collecting relevant patient-related information.

- Contributing to the safe and seamless discharge of babies, children and adults with feeding tubes from hospital to the community setting.

- Maintain effective communication between teams.

- To report any concerns and queries about patients to the dietitians in a timely manner.

- The post holder will need to be able to work under their own initiative using protocols and guidance to support dietitians and ensure the effective implementation of dietetic treatment for patients.

- To monitor patients on enteral feeds in multiple environments e.g. special schools, nursing and residential homes by home visits, outpatient appoints and telephone reviews. You may be acting as a lone worker e.g. completing weight checks.

- To keep electronic records of all patient contacts.

- The post holder will be involved in supporting training programs, auditing and team administration.

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Date posted

03 March 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,530 to £29,114 a year pa pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

270-TF874-ACS

Job locations

Highfield Clinical Care Centre

Cliftonville Road

Northampton

NN1 5BD

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

professioanl and communication skills

Essential

demonstrate a wide range of communication skills and competent organisational skills and working with people

patient facing skills

Essential

working with the public and desire to improve care and patient experience

Person Specification

professioanl and communication skills

Essential

demonstrate a wide range of communication skills and competent organisational skills and working with people

patient facing skills

Essential

working with the public and desire to improve care and patient experience

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.