Job summary
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust are recruiting for Bank Band 3 Dietetic Assistants and Bank Band 4 Dietetic Assistant Practitioners across our Community Dietetic teams in Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Knowsley. Please state on your application what band of post you are applying for.
More information on our service can be found on our website: https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/our-services/liverpool/community-dietitians
*This is a Bank post*
Shortlisting planned for 2 September 2024
Interviews planned for 24 September 2024
Main duties of the job
Bank working allows you to negotiate your working patterns your employer, ensuring flexibility, especially for those who wish to work reduced hours, those who wish to work term time only, those studying, approaching retirement or travelling. You may wish to pick up bank hours whilst you are undergoing recruitment checks in other organisations, ensuring you can continue to develop your knowledge, skills and experience and have a continued source of income.
Successful candidates will enter a bank pool of Dietitians and Dietetic Assistants and Assistant Practitioners. You will undergo mandatory training, so you are ready to start if any bank posts become available. If a job opportunity arises, our bank team will contact you to see if you are interested in any of the posts. If you are offered a bank post, you will receive a warm welcome and local induction to the team. You will also work with other Dietetic Assistants and Assistant Practitioners and Apprentice Dietitians who can offer peer support.
If you have the relevant skills and experience as outlined in the job description and meet our criteria for application, please do apply.
Please indicate within your application which Band you are wishing to apply for.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We cover a wide range of specialities including oral nutrition support, diabetes, gastroenterology, home enteral tube feeding, IBD, IBS, paediatrics (in St Helens and Knowsley), transitional care and support for oncology patients. Our Assistant team support the Dietetic team with e-registration of patients on tube feeds, clinical administration, patient assessments and reviews and care home and patient education. We are actively involved in Student Training, Dietetic Apprenticeships and training and development of staff and patients. We are a large and friendly team who offer flexible working patterns and clinical supervision and peer support. We work closely with acute trusts across the region, particularly in complex feeding MDTs and admission avoidance.
Within Dietetics and other professions, bank staff can help to temporarily fill vacancies whilst permanent recruitment is underway. In some cases, bank staffing may facilitate ongoing service provision when and short-term pilot, audit or project opportunities without the commitment to a permanent contract
Job description
Job responsibilities
We cover a wide range of specialities including oral nutrition support, diabetes, gastroenterology, home enteral tube feeding, IBD, IBS, paediatrics (in St Helens and Knowsley), transitional care and support for oncology patients. Our Assistant team support the Dietetic team with e-registration of patients on tube feeds, clinical administration, patient assessments and reviews and care home and patient education. We are actively involved in Student Training, Dietetic Apprenticeships and training and development of staff and patients. We are a large and friendly team who offer flexible working patterns and clinical supervision and peer support. We work closely with acute trusts across the region, particularly in complex feeding MDTs and admission avoidance.
Within Dietetics and other professions, bank staff can help to temporarily fill vacancies whilst permanent recruitment is underway. In some cases, bank staffing may facilitate ongoing service provision when and short-term pilot, audit or project opportunities without the commitment to a permanent contract
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ Level 2, with an aim to complete NVQ Level 3 at a later date.
Desirable
- Other qualifications linked to role i.e., gym instructor qualification.
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in the NHS, secure care, or dietetic environment.
- Basic awareness of the impact of ageing and common conditions on functional ability.
- Knowledge of lone working and associated risk management.
- An awareness and understanding of moving and handling need of patients
Desirable
- Experience of working with people who have mental health concerns, a learning disability or long-term conditions.
- Experience in handling sensitive situations
- Creativity and ability to adapt activities to the needs of the patients
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team.
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High Professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and Honesty
- Discrete
- Change Oriented
Skills
Essential
- Good communication skills
- Good people skills - friendly and honest
- Self-motivated and able to motivate others.
- Ability to recognise and cope effectively with personal stress.
- Ability to work on own initiative and as a member of a team
- Good time management skills
- Ability to be an effective role model
- Clear effective written & verbal communication
- Ability to comply with the travel requirements of the post
- An ability to physically assist patients as required and according to Trust policy and legal guidelines
- Competent IT skills
Desirable
- Awareness of negotiation and persuasion skills
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ Level 2, with an aim to complete NVQ Level 3 at a later date.
Desirable
- Other qualifications linked to role i.e., gym instructor qualification.
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in the NHS, secure care, or dietetic environment.
- Basic awareness of the impact of ageing and common conditions on functional ability.
- Knowledge of lone working and associated risk management.
- An awareness and understanding of moving and handling need of patients
Desirable
- Experience of working with people who have mental health concerns, a learning disability or long-term conditions.
- Experience in handling sensitive situations
- Creativity and ability to adapt activities to the needs of the patients
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team.
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High Professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and Honesty
- Discrete
- Change Oriented
Skills
Essential
- Good communication skills
- Good people skills - friendly and honest
- Self-motivated and able to motivate others.
- Ability to recognise and cope effectively with personal stress.
- Ability to work on own initiative and as a member of a team
- Good time management skills
- Ability to be an effective role model
- Clear effective written & verbal communication
- Ability to comply with the travel requirements of the post
- An ability to physically assist patients as required and according to Trust policy and legal guidelines
- Competent IT skills
Desirable
- Awareness of negotiation and persuasion skills
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.
