Bank Public Health Dietetic Support Worker

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The opportunity has arisen to a Dietetic Support Worker to work under the direction of the Highly Specialist Public Health Dietitian. They will deliver a brief interventions to patients at high risk of developing Diabetes.

Post holders will also 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 LifeTM services.

The successful candidates 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.

All post holders will work to an agreed framework with a degree of autonomy and will be responsible and accountable for tasks delegated to them. This will involve having their own caseload and working productively with a range of partners and organisations in a complex community environment.

The bank worker will work as a member of the Diabetes Prevention Programme Team under the direction of the Highly Specialist Public Health Dietitian . The range of responsibilities will be in support of and supervised by a Registered Dietitian (RD) and will involve working within a variety of Community and Primary Care settings across the Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Community (as appropriate to the needs of the service).

The bank worker will support the delivery of an integrated care and support programme for people at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes -

The bank worker will conduct type 2 diabetes risk assessment health checks, supported with a customised computer software programme, on residents invited to the programme from their GP practices.

The bank worker will be expected to undertake appropriate training to use the software and also to develop excellent communication and behaviour change skills which will enable them to support and motivate patients to make positive lifestyle changes, identifying their own diabetes risk factors and enable them to reduce and manage their risk

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 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Mae Bwrdd Iechyd Prifysgol Cwm Taf Morgannwg yn rhan o deulu GIG Cymru. Mae ein Bwrdd Iechyd yn darparu gofal iechyd sylfaenol, eilaidd a chymunedol ynghyd â gwasanaethau lles i tua 450,000 o bobl sy’n byw mewn tair sir: Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr, Merthur Tydful a Rhondda Cynon Taf.

Rydyn ni’n byw yn ôl ein gwerthoedd craidd:

• Rydyn ni’n gwrando, yn dysgu ac yn gwella
• Rydyn ni’n trin pawb â pharch
• Rydyn ni i gyd yn gweithio fel un tîm

Rydyn ni’n gyflogwr lleol balch; mae tua 80% o’n gweithlu o 15,000 yn byw o fewn ein rhanbarth. O ganlyniad, nid enaid y sefydliad yn unig y mae ein staff yn ei gynrychioli, ond y cymunedau amrywiol rydyn ni’n eu gwasanaethu.

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