Job summary
- Main area
- Public Health Dietetics
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Flexible working
- Other
- Job ref
- 110-BNK328-0625
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Keir Hardie University Health Park
- Town
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Salary
- £26,928 - £29,551 pro rata as worked
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Bank Public Health Dietetic Assistant Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 4
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
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 a Dietetic Assistant Practitioner to work with children and families 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.
English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate 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.
All bank workers will work relatively independently, working to an agreed framework with a degree of autonomy and will be responsible and accountable for these tasks. This will involve having their own caseload and working co productively with a range of partners and organisations in a complex community environment.
Bank Workers will be based in the uniquely built Keir Hardie University Health Park as well out in community and set up to work from home as appropriate.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac
Person specification
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 3 or equivalent level of knowledge acquired through a combination of credited training, short courses and experience. Knowledge of public health nutritional messages and current services
Desirable criteria
- Teaching or training qualification Food Hygiene Certificate Agored Cymru Level 2 Community Food and Nutrition Skills Working towards obtaining level 4 credits in line with the Health Care Support Worker Framework
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience of working in NHS, social care or community setting Experience of team working Experience dealing with telephone enquires Experience of using Windows, Microsoft Office , Outlook packages and experience of data inputting, Experience working with groups
Desirable criteria
- Attendance at relevant courses/conferences Experience of presenting to small groups
Aptitude and Abilities Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work independently with community groups and experience working with groups Ability to work as part of a team Excellent communication skills – verbal and written Ability to prioritise workload according to service needs Time management skills Accurate keyboard skills- inputting data, word processing, internet use IT skills to include e-mail, Excel and PowerPoint to a good standard Able to motivate others
Desirable criteria
- The ability to speak or learn Welsh to a satisfactory level.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ewan Smith
- Job title
- Highly Specialist Public Health Dietitian
- Email address
- [email protected]
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