Job overview

Do you have experience engaging with communities? Would you like to bring your skills to our supportive, innovative, high achieving public health dietetic team at Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board?

The opportunity has arisen to employ Dietetic Support Worker’s on the bank at CTMUHB to work with children and families or adults to deliver a range of community based initiatives; utilising a range of agreed approaches to support positive changes to food, nutrition, and physical activity behaviours. They will support the local delivery and evaluation of Nutrition Skills for LifeTM services.

The successful candidates will receive a range of training opportunities and work alongside fellow Dietetic Assistant Practitioners in Public Health Dietetics, under the guidance of the Senior Public Health Dietitians. They will receive weekly supervision sessions with a registered dietitian and will work closely with a range of partner agencies to promote positive healthy lifestyle behaviours.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be expected to take a range of anthropometric measurements

Provide a vital link between primary care professionals and the community they are working in, to support and empower service users to make the changes they identify to improve their health and wellbeing

Work in partnership, ensuring good communication with the multidisciplinary team e.g. medical staff, Public Health, community nurses, Social Services, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and other areas appropriate.

On a one to one basis offer information and guidance to service users to support and encourage them to improve their health

Undertake clinical interventions delegated by a registered Dietitian namely.

Working for our organisation

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family.  Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.