Advanced Dietetic Assistant (Obesity)

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen fortwo ambitious people to join our weight management team at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust!

Here at GSTT we have multiple weight management services (Tier 2 and Tier 3) that we run across our local South East London boroughs Southwark, Lambeth, Lewisham, Bromley and Bexley. For one role, we are specifically recruiting to our Tier 2 service tailored specifically to black African black Caribbean communities. For the second role, we are recruiting for a dietetic assistant to work across all Tier 3 services. For both roles, you must have experience of delivering behaviour change interventions to groups of patients with complex obesity, and be confident using virtual platforms. This includes delivering nutrition education, behaviour change principles and delivering exercise sessions (training will be provided). You should have experience of delivering interventions to people from diverse backgrounds. You must have a developed understanding of weight bias and stigma in both healthcare and everyday life.

Here at GSTT, Our Healthier South East London ICS commissions us to provide a large Tier 3 service, as well as multiple Tier 2 services across some of our local boroughs. For this reason, we have a large, close-knit multi-disciplinary team that you will be working alongside. This is an advanced-level dietetic assistant post and we are looking for someone motivated, confident and autonomous.

Main duties of the job

You will work from our Healthy Living team office in St. Thomas Hospital (Westminster) or you can choose to work some time remotely from home. will be delivering the online interventions, as well as delivering face-to-face groups at community sites across South East London. These community sites include, but are not limited to, Brixton, Elephant and castle, Beckenham Beacon, New Cross. You will work 09:00-17:00 on 3 days a week. You will deliver early evening groups on up to 2 days a week, on these days you will start later (11:30-19:30). This role includes Saturday morning work (2 Saturdays per month).

You will deliver group interventions yourself virtually and face to face across South East London. You will facilitate peer support, will respond to queries raised, and liaise with GPs.You will have a 'health coach' role on our GSTT HealthHub App. This means you will have patients assigned to you, and will provide online chat function support to these patients online.

You will play a key role in collection of outcome data from our service. In addition, the post holder will actively be involved in the Trust's clinical governance programme and quality agenda framework for ensuring continuing professional development, audit and research activities within this specialist area.

About us

We are the largest Dietetics Department in the UK, employing over 150 dietitians, dietetic assistants, psychologists, nutrition nurses, administrators, pathway coordinators, project managers and operational leads.

We actively encourage and support learning and development. We have an active health and wellbeing team, and a working group developing sustainability across our range of functions and services.

As part of the King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre we actively promote audit and research, and there will be opportunities for you to be involved with projects.

Employer details

Employer name

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St. Thomas' Hospital

Westminster Bridge Road

London

SE1 7EH

Employer's website

https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/careers/careers.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St. Thomas' Hospital

Westminster Bridge Road

London

SE1 7EH

Employer's website

https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/careers/careers.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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