Dietetic support worker - Ketogenic and metabolic diets

Employer Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Alder Hey Town Liverpool Salary £25,760 - £27,476 pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 07/10/2026 23:59

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.

We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.

As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.

You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:

• Great flexible working opportunities
• Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Extensive staff health and well-being programmes

Dietetic support worker
- Metabolic/ketogenic (20.5 hours for 1 year)

Are you interested in working with children & families? We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a dietetic support worker. Working within two different specialties to support children with complex disorders requiring specialist dietary treatment. This is a fixed term post for a year to cover maternity leave.

The post holder will provide practical support for patients including menu planning/food education and admin support to enable families to follow their specialist diets to achieve the best outcome possible. This would involve providing both telephone and face to face contact with families and carrying out administrative duties to support the Dietitians in the smooth running of the service. At times you would also be expected to cover general admin duties for the department.

You will be supported by a team of experienced Paediatric Dietitians and Dietetic Assistant Practitioners. If you have the skills and experience required, please contact us for more information.

Ideally the hours should be worked over 4-5 days. Applicants must be able to attend face to face interviews which will be held at Alder Hey.

To provide practical support to optimise the dietetic management of patients following complex specialist diets for the treatment of epilepsy and inherited metabolic disorders.

• To support families with the management of complex diets as out-patients and sometimes in-patients, through recipe development, menu planning , food education and use of web-based support programs
• To liaise with providers of specialist prescription products to ensure that prescription management of prescribable products is accurate and cost effective.
• To undertake administrative and clerical duties needed to maintain good organisation of the se specialist service s.

We are a team of over 20 dietitians and 3 assistants and provide dietetic care across the majority of paediatric sub-specialities. We are well respected across the Trust for our commitment to clinical dietetics and nutrition support and have excellent multi-disciplinary teams. We are a very supportive team and take seriously the development of paediatric dietitians. In addition to learning through clinical caseload management and clinical supervision there are wide ranging learning opportunities across the Trust and participation in the Masters programme in paediatric dietetics will be actively encouraged.

We also have P1 and 2 placement students and there will be opportunities to be involved in their supervision.

Please see the attached job description, personal specification and list of day to day tasks for more details regarding the job and role…