Nutrition Manager | Permanent

Classification: Health Professional Level 5
Salary: $135,355 - $152,377 plus superannuation
Position No: 27505 - 02GIH
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 29 February 2024
Contact Officer: Michelle Bennett on ***************@act.gov.au or (02) 5124 5***

What can we offer you:

• City living without the traffic – click here to see why you should live in Canberra.
• Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.
• Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
• Flexible working conditions.
• 11.5% Superannuation.
• Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).

About the Role:

Canberra Health Services' Nutrition Department is looking for an experienced and innovative leader to lead their highly performing team who provide clinical dietetic services across the Canberra Hospital Campus and the University of Canberra Hospital. 

This Nutrition Department manager is responsible for the strategic direction, planning and leadership of the Nutrition services at both CH and UCH . The position provides leadership for service delivery and development, clinical supervision and education, and the management of human and financial resources.  The nutrition service is dynamic and actively engages in service innovations and research.  

For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.

Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:

• Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
• Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
• Comply with Canberra Health Services credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements for allied health professionals.

To apply: Please apply online by submitting a copy of your curriculum vitae along with a two-page cover letter or pitch, responding to the Selection Criteria, listed in the Position Description.

For more information on this position and how to apply “click here”

Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the CHS website.

Our Vision: creating exceptional health care together
Our Role: to be a health service that is trusted by our community
Our Values: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind

CHS is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people who identify as LGBTQIA+ are particularly encouraged to apply.

Canberra Hospital Expansion Project – CHS is constructing a new critical services building called ‘Building 5’ which is a 44,000sqm nine storey building specifically designed to deliver state-of-the-art acute clinical services at the Canberra Hospital. Building 5 is the largest healthcare infrastructure project undertaken in the Territory’s history and it represents the largest clinical and operational change program to ever be implemented by Canberra Health Services. Building 5 integrates with a number of existing buildings at the Campus including Building 1 and Building 2, to facilitate a seamless public thoroughfare, patient transportation and back-of-house logistics distribution.

North Canberra Hospital - As of 3 July 2023 Calvary Public Hospital Bruce transitioned to CHS and became North Canberra Hospital. The transition will deliver a health system networked under one provider and will provide increased workforce opportunities for staff at both CHS sites. The ACT Government will be building a new northside hospital on the existing hospital campus in Bruce to meet the growing health care needs of our community, with construction to commence mid-decade providing more beds, increased services, and increased career opportunities.

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