Bank Public Health Dietetic Assistant Practitioner

Bank Public Health Dietetic Assistant Practitioner

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

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 Life^TM services.

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.

We will accept applications on a full-time, part-time and flexible working basis.

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 as out in the community and set up to work from home as appropriate.

About us

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 15,000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Job 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

• 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.
• 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

• Previous experience of working in NHS, social care, or community setting. Experience of team working. Experience dealing with telephone enquiries. Experience of using Windows, Microsoft Office, Outlook packages and experience of data inputting. Experience working with groups.
• Attendance at relevant courses/conferences. Experience of presenting to small groups.

Aptitude and Abilities Skills

• 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.
• The ability to speak or learn Welsh to a satisfactory level.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

£26,928 to £29,551 a year per annum pro rata