Dietetic Support Worker | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

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Dietetic Support Worker – Make a Difference Across Adult and Paediatric Care

We have an exciting full‑time opportunity for a Dietetic Support Worker, based at Basildon Hospital, offering a varied and rewarding role across both Adults and Paediatric Dietetic Services. 

This unique post is split equally between adult and children’s services, giving you the chance to develop a broad skill set while supporting patients at different stages of life. You’ll work closely with dietitians to help deliver high‑quality inpatient and outpatient care, contributing directly to positive patient outcomes.

Your day‑to‑day work will be diverse and hands‑on, supporting nutritional assessments, care planning, follow‑up appointments and service delivery across busy clinical settings. You’ll be an integral part of a friendly, supportive multidisciplinary team who value collaboration, learning and patient‑centred care.

If you’re organised, motivated, and passionate about nutrition and healthcare—and enjoy working with both adults and children—this role offers an excellent opportunity to grow your experience while making a meaningful difference to patients and families every day.

Supporting other sites will be required at times within this role. This may be remote support by email, telephone or electronic systems, or travel to other sites to provide in-person support. 

If this sounds like the role for you, please apply today.

To carry out a range of nutrition-related clinical support, administrative and clerical duties under the supervision and direction of registered dietitians, supporting both the adult and paediatric dietetic services. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Assist patients to improve their nutritional status

• Help monitor patients as directed by the Dietitians

• Collect clinical and other information relevant to dietetics

• Organise and prioritise own clinical caseload

• Communicate with patients, carers, and other health professionals, in person and via telephone

• Assist with delivering education and health promotion activities

• Assist with the Departmental administrative activities

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

This role is split equally between the Paediatric dietetic service and the Adult dietetic service, at Basildon Hospital. 

For more information on this varied and rewarding role, please see the attached Job Description.

 

Please be aware that we reserve the right to close the vacancy early should a high number of applications be received.

Unfortunately, there is no Visa Sponsorship available for this role. Whilst we are able to employ candidates on a graduate Visa, we are unable to offer sponsorship once the graduate visa expires

 

Unfortunately, there is no Visa Sponsorship available for this role. 

This advert closes on Tuesday 27 Oct 2026