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Nutrition Assistant
Gradd
NHS AfC: Band 2
Contract
Parhaol
Oriau
  • Rhan-amser
  • Gweithio hyblyg
24 awr yr wythnos (Flexible)
Cyfeirnod y swydd
319-6275598RG-HAS
Cyflogwr
Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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NHS
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North Tyneside General Hospital
Tref
North Shields
Cyflog
£22,383 pro rata per annum
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26/05/2024 23:59

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Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

Nutritional Assistant

NHS AfC: Band 2

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022).  Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

  • Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
  • Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
  • A range of flexible working opportunities
  • Generous annual leave and pension scheme
  • Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
  • Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
  • On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
  • Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy. 

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

 

 

Trosolwg o'r swydd

An exciting opportunity has arisen on Ward 15 North Tyneside General Hospital. We are looking for highly motivated and enthusiastic Nutrition Assistant who would welcome the opportunity of working within our Gastroenterology Team where they will be providing support to patients with their nutritional needs. 

If you feel you have the ability to work independently and as part of a pro-active team within a ward environment, have a caring and pleasant manner to deal with patients and visitors and be able to work flexibly, this could be the role for you.

Experience of working within a Hospital / Caring environment is desirable.

Knowledge and experience of computer skills is desirable however, full training will be provided for the I.T systems that you will be required to use to carry out your role.  

Ward 15 is a busy 26 bedded unit which meets the needs of adult patient's requiring in hospital treatment for a range of gastroenterology and medical patients.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

As a Nutrition assistant, your main duties will be:

  • To assist the qualified nursing staff in promoting and  providing nutritional support for patients, including assisting patients with meals and promoting additional nutritional snacks.
  • To assist patients with ordering their meals ensuring dietary preferences are met and assisting with feeding where appropriate.
  • To keep an updated record of any additional nutritional support required and provided.
  • To monitor stock levels of nutritional supplements and snacks and order appropriately to ensure sufficient stock is readily available for patients.
  • To maintain high standards of nutritional support to patients.
  • To assist in weight monitoring and risk assessments.
  •  Duties outlined are general nutrition duties for the ward as designated by the Ward Manager, Sister, Charge Nurse, or Nurse in charge.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

All staff who are coming to work for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust or current staff who are new to the role of a Nutrition Assistant, will be expected to undertake the Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Care Certificate Programme. This is a development programme mapped against the standards of the Care Certificate and to facilitate your development as a Nutrition Assistant. Full Participation in the programme is mandatory, you will not be able to commence in clinical practice until you have completed the initial three days of the programme.

Swydd ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl

  • To assist the qualified nursing staff in providing physical nutritional support for patients, including assisting with mealtimes and promoting additional nutritional snacks.
  • To assist patients with ordering their meals and feeding patients where appropriate.
  • To audit all nutritional interventions and report on nutritional intake to nursing staff.
  • To keep an updated record of additional nutritional support provided.
  • To monitor stock levels of nutritional supplements and snacks and order appropriately.
  • To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
  • To maintain high clinical standards.
  • To promote nutrition in the ward.

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Qualifications

Meini prawf hanfodol
  • Previous knowledge of patient care and needs.
Meini prawf dymunol
  • NVQ Level II
  • NVQ Level III

Bathodynnau ardystio / achredu cyflogwyr

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Lindsay Stoetzel
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Ward Manager
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