Dietetic Assistant Practitioner - Home Enteral Feeding in Warwick

We are looking for a self‑motivated Dietetic Assistant Practitioner who has experience of working in a health, social care or education setting to support our Specialist Dietitians to deliver a high‑quality service to tube‑fed adults and children in their own homes and care homes in Warwickshire.

Previous experience working in a role that supports nutrition & hydration or in a dietetic department is beneficial. Experience with patients with stomas or feeding tubes, and working with children and families would be advantageous.

This position focuses on caring for patients who are fed artificially via a feeding tube and will not typically include advice on traditional nutrition or healthy eating.

Please note this role will be reimbursed at band 3 level until the necessary competencies and qualifications are obtained.

This post will involve countywide travel in Warwickshire, so you must have independent means of transport.

• To assist the Specialist Dietitians to facilitate the discharge of patients on enteral feeds in a planned and effective manner.
• To assist the Specialist Dietitians to ensure adults and children receiving enteral feeding at home receive and use the correct equipment, ancillaries and enteral feeds.
• To assist the Specialist Dietitians to monitor patients requiring nutritional intervention via enteral feeding tubes.
• To monitor and review patients on established feeding regimens, using a range of techniques including anthropometric measurements and recommend changes within assessed competency level.
• To monitor and review adults with a diagnosed neurological condition that have established dietetic plans in place, using a range of techniques including anthropometric measurements and recommend changes within assessed competency level.
• To assess and advise on short‑term issues with established patients on enteral feeding following an agreed flowchart, escalating when required.
• To provide training and support to patients and carers on routine feeding tube care to prevent complications.
• To assess problems to prevent tube complications, undertake procedures, advise on treatment of stoma and tube problems within assessed competency level, providing and ordering spare parts as required.
• To undertake clerical duties relating to the cost‑effective provision of the enteral feeding service including using electronic patient systems.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from hospitals in Warwick, Stratford‑Upon‑Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston‑on‑Stour to community services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

For further details / informal visits contact: Lyndsay Chandler, Home Enteral Feeding Team Leader – Email: lyndsay.chandler@swft.nhs.uk – Telephone: 01926 600818. Alternative Contact: Kathy Lenehan, Dietetic Service Manager – Email: kathy.lenehan@swft.nhs.uk – Tel: 01926 600818 option 3.

Seniority level: Entry level. Employment type: Full‑time. Job function: Health Care Provider. Industries: Hospitals and Health Care.