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Advanced Dietetic Assistant - Advanced Inherited Metabolic Disease

Manylion swydd
Dyddiad hysbysebu: 23 Mai 2025
Cyflog: Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: £31,944 - £34,937 p.a. inc HCA pro rata
Oriau: Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau: 22 Mehefin 2025
Lleoliad: London, SE1 7EU
Cwmni: Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd: Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd: 7213568/196-LIS9546

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A Vacancy at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.


We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated advanced dietetic assistant to join our friendly Adult Inherited Metabolic Diseases (AIMD) team on a full time (1.0WTE) permanent basis. The AIMD service at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital is one of two London centres providing specialist management to patients with IMDs. Our service has over 900 patients and is a clinical excellence centre for some lipid disorders. We also provide outreach services to Plymouth and Norwich and manage patients as far ranging as Malta and Cyprus. We are actively involved in clinical trials and research. Dietary management is the mainstay of treatment for the majority of conditions and therefore the dietetic team plays an essential role within our MDT in the management of these patients. This role will largely involve providing administrative support to patients with Phenylketonuria, but will also provide the opportunity to support the dietitian providing care to many other IMDs. This is a rare opportunity to develop skills and knowledge in a unique specialist area.

As a Dietetic Assistant you will be in regular contact with our patients; day to day tasks will include (but are not limited to): providing support around prescription requests and issues, home delivery queries, development of patient resources, and reporting biochemical results to patients after discussion with the dietitian. We are therefore looking for someone with good communication skills.

The successful candidate will be responsible for checking our voicemail system, responding to voicemail queries and flagging urgent messages to the dietitians; good organisational skills will therefore be essential.

The majority of tasks in this role will be carried out electronically, so the ideal candidate will possess strong IT skills. This includes proficiency in using Excel spreadsheets, electronic patient records, and updating patient resources.

Our day can be unpredictable and there can be scenarios that require a prompt response; therefore we are looking for someone who is flexible, adaptable, and a good team player. Most importantly however, we are looking for someone who is keen to learn and with a positive attitude!

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.

The successful candidate will support the dietitians in administrative roles, such as completing prescription requests, travel letters and sample requests. However the candidate will also have direct patient contact via email and telephone, which often involves discussing available prescription items, providing advice around home delivery, and reporting biochemical results with guidance by the Dietitians.

Evidence for the clinical management of metabolic conditions is always evolving, and our service often completes audits and service development projects. You will play a key role in helping the dietitians complete audits and maintaining databases, as well as development of new clinician and patient resources, under support from the dietitians. There will also be opportunities to support the dietitian in leading group education sessions for our patients with Phenylketonuria. You will also be involved in completing analysis of patient food diaries using our Nutritics software; the results of this analysis will be essential in informing the dietitian on appropriate dietary changes required to patient management.

Please see the attached job description/person specification for more information about the roles and responsibilities for this role.

Interviews likely to be w/c 09/06/2025


This advert closes on Sunday 1 Jun 2025

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