Dietetic Support Worker

Job overview

Are you caring and compassionate, an enthusiastic learner and interested in a career in diet and nutrition?

Would you like to work with our community dietetics service based at the Minerva Health centre . You would be involved with nutritional care of patients requiring artificial feeding in the community . This could include both patients on nutritional support and those who are fed by feeding tubes . You will also support the administration of the home tube feeding service so that patients have the appropriate feeding equipment / consumables and have regular supplies of these products.

Main duties of the job

Working within a defined scope of practice, key aspects of this role will include:

Assessing nutritional needs of non-complex adult patients with a range of medical conditions, requiring oral nutrition support and/or home enteral tube feeding

-Devising programmes of dietetic care...