Public Health Dietitian

Job summary

A new and exciting opportunity has arisen within Cardiff and Vale University Health Board for an experienced public health dietitian to lead their health improvement programmes across range of population groups.

The Public Health dietetic team work with partners to build the capacity of communities, working through our Nutrition Skills for Life programme to support healthy lifestyles and prevent malnutrition. Our aim is to equip community-based staff with the nutrition knowledge and skills to incorporate nutrition messages into their work, employ more local people as community food workers and strengthen community food and nutrition input into areas of health inequality.

The successful candidate will work for the Public Health Dietetic team service, based at Riverside Health Centre for 37.5 hours per week.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for developing, managing and co-ordinating community dietetic partnership programmes with a range and of population groups and addressing health inequalities. This will involve working in partnership with other agencies in a variety of settings including community venues, educational establishments, with social services, third sector and health care providers as well as directly with clients at an individual and group level.

The post holder will be working predominantly in areas of high deprivation with a population with diverse and complex health and social needs and will need to have experience of working in public health dietetics as well as experience of teaching and delivering Agored Cymru Food and Nutrition Skills courses or equivalent.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this role; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

About us

Our Values: 'CARING FOR PEOPLE; KEEPING PEOPLE WELL'

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board has an important job to do. What we do matters because it's our job to care for people and keep them well. We all want to do this to the best of our abilities - but we know that good intentions are not always enough.

At Cardiff and Vale University Health Board our values and example behaviours are:

• We care about the people we serve and the people we work with- Treat people as you would like to be treated and always with compassion
• We trust and respect one another - Look for feedback from others on how you are doing and strive for better ways of doing things
• We take personal responsibility - Be enthusiastic and take responsibility for what you do.
• We treat people with kindness - Thank people, celebrate success and when things go wrong ask 'what can I learn'?
• We act with integrity- Never let structures get in the way of doing the right thing.

Our values guide the way we work and the way we behave with others. Post holders will be expected at all times to behave in accordance with our values demonstrating commitment to the delivery of high quality services to patients.