Dietetic Assistant/Support Worker

Job overview

Have you got excellent people skills and are looking for part time work supporting patients in a Rehab Unit with their nutrition needs? This could be the perfect post for you!

This post has hours that could fit around school drop offs and pick ups for those with children.

It is in the Sussex Rehab Centre at the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath.

The wider department is well respected and has clinical speciality areas in acute medicine, critical care, diabetes, elderly care, gastroenterology, home enteral tube feeding, oncology, paediatrics, stroke/neurology, and surgery.

Princess Royal Hospital is located in the green and leafy town of Haywards Heath next to the beautiful Sussex Downs. It has excellent train links to Brighton, Gatwick and London making it  a great commuter town.

Main duties of the job

• Organising (selecting, inviting, setting up), running and evaluating lunch club on the unit.
• Introducing the menu's/ available options for long stay patients and assisting patients to make appropriate menu choices which are in line with speech and language therapy recommendations.
• Taste trials for patients who require nutritional supplements.
• Maintaining stock levels for nutritional shakes and soups for the wards.
• Monitoring and supporting patients with a malnutrition universal screening tool scores of 1 with an appropriate nutrition plan.
• Keeping the database of patients nutritional scores up to date to assist with prioritising patient reviews for the Dietitian/ dietetic assistant.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Organising (selecting, inviting, setting up), running and evaluating lunch club on the unit.
• Introducing the menu's/ available options for long stay patients and assisting patients to make appropriate menu choices which are in line with speech and language therapy recommendations.
• Taste trials for patients who require nutritional supplements.
• Maintaining stock levels for nutritional shakes and soups for the wards.
• Monitoring and supporting patients with a malnutrition universal screening tool scores of 1 with an appropriate nutrition plan.
• Keeping the database of patients nutritional scores up to date to assist with prioritising patient reviews for the Dietitian/ dietetic assistant.

See Job Description and Person Specification for full details.

Please note: This role does not meet the minimum criteria for visa sponsorship under the current UK immigration rules, which set specific salary and skill thresholds. As such, we are unable to provide sponsorship for this post. Applicants will therefore need to already have the right to work in the UK to be considered.