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Nutrition and Dietetics
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 3
Contract
Permanent: Full time on site role
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (hours must be divided over 5 days)
Job ref
392-RNOH-935
Employer
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Stanmore
Town
Stanmore
Salary
£27,129 - £28,649 per annum inclusive of HCAs
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
07/08/2024 23:59

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Dietetic Assistant

NHS AfC: Band 3

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust. 

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field.  We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the Trust. The RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients

  • Rated Good by the CQC
  • Two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility
  • Our Research and Innovation Centre works closely with our main academic partner, University College London
  • Recognised as a centre of excellence,  leading on national initiatives, such as the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Programme
  • Further major redevelopment underway across the Stanmore site – improving and modernising our facilities to maintain our position as the UK’s leading centre for orthopaedic medicine
  • In the NHS staff survey, over 90% of our staff were satisfied with the quality of care they are able to give to patients - the best result of any NHS Trust in the country
  • Our staff also indicated that they had the best experience of appraisals as compared to all other NHS Trusts.

This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH’s journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.

Our aim is to remain a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS. To do this, we have four core values that underpin everything that we do. We use our values to help ensure that we are always focused on the things that our staff and patients believe are most important:

  • Patients first, always
  • Excellence, in all we do
  • Trust, honesty and respect, for each other
  • Equality, for all

Our annual staff survey results have been improving year on year, with our staff telling us that their experience of working at the Trust is getting better and better. They also indicate that our staff feel very loyal to the RNOH and committed to its role in providing the very best care to our complex patient group. We hope that we can welcome you to our growing team soon.

Job overview

To assist the dietitians by ensuring efficient stock control of dietetic products on the wards and cleaning of special equipment.  To provide administrative support to the dietetic team and assistance with clinical tasks. To undertake specific patient measurements and accounts of food intake from patients.

Main duties of the job

Assisting patients with menus and educational presentations

Contribute to audit, research, policy and data collection.

Lift and move nutrition product stock, and distribute around the hospital

Administration with patient notes and letters 

Working for our organisation

At the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH), we are committed to achieving the best staff experience in the NHS. In the 2023 NHS Staff Survey, we proudly:

  • Scored above the national average for the People Promises: "We are recognised and rewarded," "We are always learning," "We work flexibly," "We are a team," and for staff engagement.
  • Ranked #1 among all Trusts in North and Central London for all People Promises and themes.
  • Ranked #1 among all Acute Specialist Trusts for "We work flexibly."

At RNOH, we’re committed to being actively anti-discriminatory and actively inclusive. We recognise our brilliant people do brilliant work, and we offer rewarding careers, no matter what their background. We continue to strive to break down barriers to be the Trust where people come together because what they do matters, makes a difference and where they can thrive. ​

Joining our organisation means enjoying a wide range of staff benefits, including:

  • 24/7 access to wellbeing support through our Employee Assistance Programme.
  • A Rewards & Recognition platform, offering opportunities to thank colleagues, send gifts, and access exclusive discounts.
  • A dedicated Staff Wellbeing Hub, providing a space to relax and recharge away from the work environment.
  • Salary sacrifice schemes for transport (season ticket loans, car and bike), electrical goods, and childcare

At RNOH, we are more than a workplace—we are committed to patients, to excellence and the wellbeing of our staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Assists the Dietitian with patient intervention as directed e.g. monitoring food intake, weighing patients, or assistance with menus.

 

With training and support as required the Dietetic assistant should

 

1.            Assist patients with menus and assisted feeding

2.            Monitor and calculate patients food intake using food records and patient interview

3.            Ability to explain complex things in simple terms

4.            Understand and explain patients feeding plans

5.            Undertake patient measurements of weight, height and mid arm circumference

6.            Show an interest in science and food and a passion for the subject

7.            Present at patient education groups

8.            Documents patients’ progress and ongoing needs according to department procedure.

9.            Maintains competencies through active participation in in-service training programme.

 

 

Policy/service development/implementation

 

10.         Comments on policies / procedures.

11.         Contribute to the collection of patient outcome measures

 

 

Financial and physical resources

 

12.         Be able to lift, move and stack moderate weight boxes from the store room.

13.         Transport smaller items by hand or by trolley to the wards

14.         Have understanding of the importance of working within the financial limitations of the NHS

15.         Be able to manage periods of standing or walking around a large hospital site.

16.         Carry out stock rotation and avoid feed wastage  

17.         Carry out administrative duties as required such as room bookings, taking minutes, scanning forms and uploading letters.

 

 

 

 

 

Human resources

 

18.         Participates in staff appraisal scheme as an appraisee and is responsible for complying with agreed personal development plan to meet required knowledge and competencies.

19.         Participate in team meeting and journal club

20.         Explains own role and outlines Dietetic department procedures as part of staff induction.

 

Information resources

 

21.         Maintains statistics according to department procedure.

22.         Keeps local resource files up to date.

23.         Assists in the management and organisation of electronic files

24.         Takes, types and shares minutes in a timely manner as requested at Dietetic meetings

 

Research and development

 

25.         Records data for audits as required.

26.         Independently choose articles for discussion at journal club

27.         Contributes to meetings about service improvement

28.         Assists in the education of the multi-disciplinary team

 

Freedom to act

 

29.         All patient related activity is carried out at the request of a Dietitian.

30.         Works within patients’ agreed goals.

31.         Refers new patient queries to the Dietitian.

32.         Discusses with the Dietitian if patient’s needs have changed or if uncertain about treatment plan.

33.         Maintains responsibility for own time management to meet priorities.

 

Nutrition and Dietetics Department

 

34.         Keep sufficient stocks of nutritional supplements on the wards, re-issue when stock run out, order electronically and put away new stocks.

35.         To arrange appointments for patients as requested by the dietitian.

36.         To complete the paper work required, preparing dietetics department records for clinician use.

37.         To deal with telephone enquiries, forwarding calls to the correct extensions or taking accurate messages, ensuring they get passed on.

38.         Work closely with the catering department when requested by the Dietitians.

39.         File away patients’ record, retrieve patients’ electronic and paper records as required, keeping filing system up to date.

40.         Ordering and keeping stock of office requirements (diet leaflets etc.)

41.         To work closely with the dietitians on project work and audit as requested.

42.         To review patients designated by the Dietitians on a weekly basis and complete the staff handover and statistics in a timely manner.

 

 

 

 

Special Requirements:

 

Any other duties commensurate with the grade and in line with the requirement of this post.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Good written and spoken English
  • Educated to secondary school level or equivalent GCSE in English and Maths
Desirable criteria
  • In service training in care work

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Worked with cutomers
  • Worked in a team
Desirable criteria
  • Worked in a hospital envirnoment
  • worked with people with a disability

knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria
  • Time management skills
  • Organsied
  • Able to communicate with a variety of people
  • Basic IT skills
  • Awareness of role of dietitian
  • Interest in science and food
Desirable criteria
  • skills with Microsoft office
  • internet search skills

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerNHS Rainbow badgeNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality MarkBronze Trailblazer by Race Equality MattersDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - GoldAccredited Menopause Friendly EmployerRoyal College of Anaesthetists AccreditedCareLeaver Covenant

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Natalie Healy
Job title
Principle Lead Dietitian & ITherapies Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
020 8909 5456
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