Paediatric Dietetic Assistant

Job summary

Location: Royal Manchester Children's Hospital

Royal Manchester Children's Hospital (RMCH) is a large tertiary Children's Hospital that provides regional and supra-regional services to include most clinical paediatric specialties.

Do you have an interest in children's nutrition and enjoy working with a team? If so, this is an ideal opportunity for you to join us. We have an exciting opportunity for a Dietetic assistant to join our team of 36 paediatric dietitians and 4 other dietetic assistants to support the dietetic department.

We are based in the 371 bed, purpose built hospital in the middle of Manchester's vibrant city Centre, where we strive to to develop our paediatric dietetic team to reflect state of the art facilities in the largest single-site children's hospital in the UK.

Main duties of the job

This post is mainly office based and administrative .

You will act as a link between dietitians and their patients requiring dietary modification, RMCH nurses, our special feeds unit and the catering service. But that's not all - you will also work with our dietitians to help create resources, conduct literature searches , undertake audits, input detailed information into databases , produce reports, and liaise with other health care workers to set up training and products needed to support home enteral feeding.

You will have opportunity to measure height and weight for children attending clinics, undertake patient / carer experience surveys ,extract information from electronic medical records and maintain stocks of nutritional products.

You will also be required to support the special feeds unit in preparing modified feeds.

You will be working with our other assistants in a friendly team and will quickly build on your interest in food and nutrition and your excellent interpersonal skills to provide comprehensive assistance to the dietitians.

You must be computer literate and able to create and manipulate databases and spreadsheets independently.

Previous experience of working in the NHS is desirable .You must have experience of working with children

We will provide a comprehensive induction programme and you will participate in appraisals with a view to developing the appropriate knowledge and skills .

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.