Senior Dietitian Community Mental Health

Senior Dietitian Community Mental Health

• Join an organisation that values its staff and fosters a culture of safety, inclusion, and support.
• Dynamic role – ideal for both personal and professional growth.
• Make an impact within the Mental health space.

Join our vibrant community team at Waratah Clinic in Moonee Ponds (RMH MHS) and make a meaningful impact in the field of Mental Health. As an integral part of our Adult Community Service, you will engage in both clinic-based and outreach settings, providing acute, brief, and longer-term interventions to support individuals with psychiatric disorders. Your new role will involve collaboration with consumers, families/carers, and various healthcare providers, emphasizing a recovery-oriented approach.
Your new role:
As a dedicated member of the Community Team, your responsibilities will encompass crisis responses, targeted interventions (both brief and longer term), and consultative interactions with primary healthcare providers. Working closely with consumers, carers, CMHSS, and other services, you'll contribute to best practices for recovery using evidence-based approaches. This dynamic role offers opportunities for personal and professional development, encouraging proactive problem-solving and a commitment to our values.
About you:
We are seeking a highly experienced dietitian with a minimum of 7 years in providing dietetic and multi-disciplinary treatment for adult consumers with complex Mental Health-related needs and their families/carers. Prior experience in a Community Mental Health team is advantageous.
Ideally, you will have:

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• The ability to be adaptable, knowing when to change priorities to meet the needs of consumers or the team, and thriving in a flexible and positive environment.
• Initiative. We value proactive individuals who actively seek opportunities for self-development and improved service delivery without waiting to be prompted.
• Strong organisational and time management skills. Your integrity will be reflected in behaviours aligned with Melbourne Health's values.

Required:

• A degree in Nutrition and Dietetics accredited for eligibility for full membership of the Dietitians Australia.
• Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD) status.

Benefit of working with the Royal Melbourne Hospital

• Career progression opportunities to suit your professional development goals.
• Enjoy excellent work-life balance working in a supportive and collaborative team
• Fantastic Salary packaging, onsite car parking and, close to public transport.

The RMH is proud to be a workplace that champions diversity, inclusion and equality for our staff and our community. Our goal is for our people to feel safe, included and supported so that they can be at their best every single day. We encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities and identities to apply to our vacancies, and will consider adjustments to support such applications.
Interested?
If you are looking for a challenging role and can demonstrate the above capabilities, connect with us.
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All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check and a Working with Children Check (WWCC only for NWMH advertisements). Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of an immunisation assessment and COVID-19 Vaccination prior to commencement.
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