Dietetic Support Worker | Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 16 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,937 - £26,598 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 15 February 2026 |
| Location: | Preston, PR2 9RJ |
| Company: | Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7742879/438-PB3695-A |
Summary
Are you caring and compassionate, an enthusiastic learner and interested in a career in diet and nutrition?
Would you like to work with our community dietetics service based at the Minerva Health centre . You would be involved with nutritional care of patients requiring artificial feeding in the community . This could include both patients on nutritional support and those who are fed by feeding tubes . You will also support the administration of the home tube feeding service so that patients have the appropriate feeding equipment / consumables and have regular supplies of these products.
Working within a defined scope of practice, key aspects of this role will include:
Assessing nutritional needs of non-complex adult patients with a range of medical conditions, requiring oral nutrition support and/or home enteral tube feeding
- Devising programmes of dietetic care under supervision, monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of dietary intervention and providing regular feedback to the supervising Registered Dietitian
- Supporting the team with ongoing administrative management of patients on caseload, including liaising with other Registered Dietitians, Dietetic support staff, other community health care professionals and administrative staff, home enteral feeding companies, and nursing homes and carers.
- Data entry regarding product orders and assisting with the supply of dietetic products and consumables to patients in their own homes and working with the enteral feeding companies
Full training will be provided but candidates must have a relevant qualification and must be able to demonstrate nutrition knowledge as well as excellent communication and organisational skills.
If you have always aspired to work for the NHS caring for our patients and working alongside a highly motivated team, then you are going to love this role.
You would join a team of experienced and forward-thinking Registered Dietitians, Dietetic Support workers and administrative staff.The Community Dietetic Service offer nutrition and specialist dietary advice to adults (over 16 years) and provide an equitable and quality service for General Practitioners and community care teams across Greater Preston, Chorley and South Ribble.
We are committed to the continuing professional development of our team and will provide you with development opportunities as part of your role. We also encourage peer-supervision and are devoted to your wellbeing, with a number of Trust initiatives available to support staff.
We invite you tocome and join our team for this exciting opportunity
If you are interested in this post or would like further information please contact Kate Castelli, Associate Head of Adult Dietetics or Pam Coulthurst, Head of Dietetics, by emailingdietetics@lthtr.nhs.ukor calling 01772 522467.
• To directly support the delivery of diet therapy to patients
• To support the delivery of the dietetic service across an appropriate clinical area
• To aid this process the post holder will ensure their own personal development building knowledge and skills working within a team under the overview of HCPC Registered Dietitians
Please see attached supporting job description and person specification
This advert closes on Friday 30 Jan 2026