Dietetic Assistant

Dietetic Assistant (Band 3) - Upper GI - Liverpool University Hospitals Group - Royal Liverpool Hospital

Fixed term (6 months) - 22.5 hours per week

An opportunity has arisen to join the Upper Gastrointestinal (UGI) dietetic team, which is part of a wider Dietetic Department, at The Royal Liverpool University Hospital to provide essential clinical and clerical supporting roles to the team. This post will support the Upper GI dietetic service for patients living with inoperable and operable UGI Cancer.

We are looking for highly motivated individuals who enjoy working as part of a team, eager to learn and engage with all aspects of patient care. The successful applicants will have the opportunity to work alongside specialist dietitians in helping to facilitate nutrition care for both inpatients and outpatients., Your role within the team will include ordering nutritional supplement samples, dealing with phone calls, liaising with community health care professionals and other hospitals e.g. Clatterbridge Center for Oncology.

You will be required to register patients for home delivery on enteral feeds and send all relevant paperwork as instructed by the Dietitian.

You will be required to prepare multiple clinics to ensure the Dietitian has up to date and accurate information to hand when reviewing patients.

You will be contributing to arthrometric measurements and data collecting as part of the UGI Dietetic team.

As part of these positions, you will also support the administration team with appropriate tasks relating to patient's nutritional care. You will be expected to have basic IT, internet and keyboard skills, be able to communicate well and have experience of working with people.

We offer a professional environment with access to support and supervision to help further develop your skills within the nutrition field.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospitalis the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility.Broadgreen Hospitalis home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Women's Hospitalspecialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheRoyal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.