Public Health Assistant Practitioner - Cardiff, United Kingdom - Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen to be part of the Public Health Dietetic Team within Cardiff and Vale UHB as a Band 4 Dietetic Assistant Practitioner targeting a range of population groups.
We are looking for a passionate individual to work in the following area:Adults living in central Vale of Glamorgan
The Public Health dietetic team work with partners to build the capacity of communities, working through our Nutrition Skills for Life programme to support healthy lifestyles and prevent malnutrition.
Our aim is to equip community-based staff with the nutrition knowledge and skills to incorporate nutrition messages into their work, employ more local people as community food workers and strengthen community food and nutrition input into areas of health inequality.
The post holder will have an interest in food and nutrition and experience of working in the community or with the specific population groups mentioned.
Under the supervision of a senior Dietitian you will be delivering nutrition interventions in the community across Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan.
These interventions would include delivering practical cooking skills, nutrition and healthy eating messages to groups and to families in their own home as part of the Early Years post.
The post holder will be working predominantly in areas of high deprivation with a population with diverse and complex health and social needs.
This post is fixed term for 2 years due to - meet the needs of the service.
Our Values:
'CARING FOR PEOPLE; KEEPING PEOPLE WELL'
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board has an important job to do. What we do matters because it's our job to care for people and keep them well.
We all want to do this to the best of our abilities - but we know that good intentions are not always enough.
At Cardiff and Vale University Health Board our values and example behaviours are:- We care about the people we serve and the people we work with
- Treat people as you would like to be treated and always with compassion
- We trust and respect one another
- Look for feedback from others on how you are doing and strive for better ways of doing things
- We take personal responsibility
- Be enthusiastic and take responsibility for what you do.
- We treat people with kindness
- Thank people, celebrate success and when things go wrong ask 'what can I learn'?
- We act with integrity
- Never let structures get in the way of doing the right thing.
Post holders will be expected at all times to behave in accordance with our values demonstrating commitment to the delivery of high quality services to patients.
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