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Dietetic Assistant - feed stock management
Grade
Band 2
Contract
Fixed term: 6 months (Requirement to work mornings, Mon-Fri.)
Hours
Part time - 18.75 hours per week
Job ref
225-DIV3-7421928
Employer
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
New Cross Hospital
Town
Wolverhampton
Salary
£24,465 pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
08/10/2025 23:59

Employer heading

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust logo

Dietetic Assistant

Band 2

 

 

Job overview

We are looking for a new colleague to join our team of 35 dietitians, apprentices and support staff.  This is a temporary post to cover colleague absence.

The successful candidate will manage stock levels of nutritional products, co-ordinating distribution, monitoring usage and re-ordering appropriately. You will support our clinical team in the management of patients requiring tube feeding at home and deal with telephone queries from patients and other health colleagues.

Main duties of the job

Support the Nutrition & Dietetics Service to meet the nutritional needs of patients in hospital and the community.

To manage stock levels of nutritional products, co-ordinating ward distribution monitoring usage and reordering appropriately. 

To support dietitians in the management of patients requiring home tube feeding and deals with telephone queries from patients and other health colleagues.

To support with general office duties.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve.  We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Full details regarding this post are available in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person specification

Experience and skills

Essential criteria
  • General office skills including email, accurate data entry to excel and databases
  • Good written and verbal communication in english
  • Physical fitness for manual handling in storeroom and moving products between locations on site

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerNursing Times Workforce Summit & Awards WinnerStep into health

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Kathryn Robinson
Job title
Head of Nutrition & Dietetics
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01902 695335
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