Dietetic assistant community Work, Jobs in Wakefield, Wyk (with Salaries)

Dietetic Assistant - Community
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust —Castleford
- £25,760 - £27,476 a year
- Full-time
- Microsoft Office
- Travel
- Patient care
23h
Dietetic Assistant
Queensway Hospital —Rotherham
- £27,000 - £29,000 a year
- Part-time
- Care plans
Quick apply
3d
Community Dietitian
Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust —Leeds
- £39,959 - £48,117 a year
- Full-time
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
3d
Lead Dietitian
Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust —Leeds
- £49,387 - £56,515 a year
- Annual leave
12d
Senior Dietitian Renal
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust —Sheffield
- £39,959 - £48,117 a year
- Part-time
- Organisational skills
1d

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Dietetic Assistant - Community

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust -
Castleford

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Job details

Full-time
£25,760 - £27,476 a year
23 hours ago

Benefits

Cycle to work scheme
Company pension
Car scheme

Qualifications

Nutrition
Driving Licence
GCSE
Microsoft Office
Patient care

Full job description

Contact information

Ann-Marie Ward Clinical Lead Dietitian
[email protected]

Andrew Jones Clinical Lead for Off Fp10 project

[email protected]

About the role

Exciting Opportunity: Join a Transformative New Dietetic-Led Service in Wakefield!

Mid Yorkshire NHS Teaching Trust has secured new, permanent funding to launch an innovative, dietitian-led Off-FP10 service for both enteral (HEF) and oral nutritional support (ONS) across Wakefield. In close collaboration with the Wakefield Health and Care Partnership and the Integrated Care System (ICS), this forward-thinking service will ensure that all patients needing nutritional support are referred to, reviewed, and monitored by our expert dietetic team.

Designed to deliver timely, patient-centred care in the community, this new model promotes seamless intervention and aims to reduce health inequalities by improving access to dietetic servicesno matter where patients live.

Key Objectives of the Service:

End inappropriate ONS prescribing in alignment with NHS England guidance.
Provide early and effective dietetic intervention for those in need.
Deliver ongoing training and support to all care homes across Wakefield.

To support this exciting development, we are recruiting across multiple roles, including:

Qualified Dietitians
Dietetic Assistants
Administrative Team Members.

We’re currently seeking a dynamic Band 3 Dietetic Assistant.

What You’ll Be Doing: As part of a multidisciplinary team (Band 7s, Band 5s, Band 3s, and admin), you’ll support the implementation of this new service while managing your own clinical caseload. You will assist in the delivery specialist dietetic care across Wakefield, including patients’ homes and care home settings. Support may be provided through face-to-face visits, telehealth, and presentations to care home staff.

Location & Flexibility: Based in Wakefield Community, you may also need to attend meetings at hospital sites in Pinderfields, Dewsbury, or Pontefract, with flexible options for remote working.

Professional Development: We’re committed to your growth. Our department is deeply invested in CPD and clinical supervision. As a student placement site for Leeds Beckett University, you'll also play a role in A, B, and C level dietetic students.

What You’ll Need:

A valid UK driving licence and access to a vehicle (essential for home visits)
Willingness to work flexibly across locations
Experience of good customer or patient care
An interest in Nutrition and Dietetics
An enthusiasm to work as part of a team, to be respectful and a desire to learn and share learning

Before applying, please carefully read the job description and person specification. Use the "Supporting Information" section of your application to clearly demonstrate how your experience aligns with the role.

Any application that is presumed to have heavily relied upon the use of AI will not be considered and applications will not be shortlisted.

Main duties

Act as a focal point for the clinical team. Provide a friendly and professional service; deal with enquiries from a multitude of sources following Trust policies and standard operating procedures. Liaise with GPs, other hospitals, patients, internal medical/non-medical staff and medical/non-medical external staff by a variety of means i.e. face to face/phone/e-mail/letter on a daily basis.
To work alongside the Dietitians in visiting patients in their own homes or speaking on the telephone, this may include joint visits or visiting alone to review and follow up patients who are on the clinical caseload. This may also include liaising with other professionals, family or carers to ensure that the optimal plan is in place.
To work alongside the Dietitian in reviewing patient’s supplement prescriptions and ensuring the smooth roll out of working in an Off- FP10 model. This will include liaising with the feed companies and using IT systems to set up and amend prescriptions for patients on the caseload.
Assist clinicians with administrative tasks, e.g. utilising IT systems or ensuring forms are completed and sent to relevant departments in a timely manner, in line with service specific standard operating procedures.
To ensure all duties are undertaken in line with standard operating procedures and to enable the achievement of Trust and Service specific Key Performance Indicators
Frequently receive and respond appropriately to telephone and personal enquiries from patients, relatives, GP’s, other consultants and external bodies, referring enquiries to the consultants / clinical team where necessary. This will require analysis of queries/issues, making judgements about how to deal with them and escalating as appropriate. This may require the use of tact/ empathic or reassurance skills. In addition, persuasive skills are often required where agreement or co-operation is required in trying to avoid Trust complaints.
Accurate recording of all paper/computerised patient records, updating and amending information timely and within standard operating procedures.
Undertake routine or ad hoc data validation as directed.
Keep appropriate statistical records/information as and when required for the clinical team for audit purposes. Provision of statistical returns required at regular intervals. This may involve entering statistical data onto databases.
In the absence of other members of staff, it may be necessary to ensure the email inbox is checked frequently and email referrals dealt with in a prompt and timely manner. Also undertaking typing of correspondence where required, using relevant IT systems to a high and accurate standard.
To request, cancel and re-arrange appointments when necessary.
Responsible for the receipt of referral letters with timely input onto the computerised IT Systems and ensuring that all patients’ demographic information is recorded accurately to arrange appointments.
To be responsible for ensuring copies of correspondence are stored in the patients’ electronic records in accordance with standard operating procedures.
To attend meetings and appropriate committees where attendance is required.
To be responsible for the confidential management of patient records and ensure that all documentation is returned to the appropriate department timely within standard operating procedures.
The post holder will give relevant assistance and training as and when required to support all colleagues.
Demonstrate a good knowledge of nutritional supplements in order to review patients who have a nutritional supplement prescription in situ.
To be able to liaise with other professionals such as Therapists, Social workers, GPs and carers to actively input into multi-disciplinary working.
To assist the Dietitians to work on Dietetic resources and delivery of training to patients and professionals.
To follow the Dietetic plan put into place by the qualified or student Dietitian and provide feedback to the named Dietitian when required.
To discharge patients from the community caseload once the patient has achieved their aims/ goals.
To be able to recognise when a patient’s circumstances change and to be able to hand the patient back to the qualified dietitian for a review of their nutritional plan.

Essential person specification requirements

Qualifications

Vocational Qualification Level 3 in a relevant field or 4 GCSE’s, grade C or above, including English)
UK driving licence and access to a vehicle with the ability to travel independently in line with requirements.

Experience

Experience and knowledge of multi-disciplinary team working
Experience of good customer or patient care
Working with computer software programmes such as Microsoft Office, e-mail and internet

Be part of MY team

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Application guidance:
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Our benefits

Access to the NHS pension plan
Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
Extensive benefits and support, including:
Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
Home electronics scheme
Cycle to work scheme - subject to eligibility criteria
Car lease salary sacrifice scheme - subject to eligibility criteria
Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
Career progression, training and support

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