AddressSenior Dietitian
Part-time Temporary with a Possibility of Permanency
Closes: 28 February 2024
Classification: Health Professional Level 4
Salary: $114,928 - $123,710 plus superannuation
Position No: 20802 - 02FWV
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 14 February 2024
Contact Officer: Sam Thompson on Samj.thompson@act.gov.au or (02) 5124-2544
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.
- VISA/Sponsorship for eligible candidates
- Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).
About the Role:
The Nutrition Department is primarily responsible for the management of core functions and provision of Nutrition based allied health services within Canberra Health Services.
Services include:
- Clinical Dietetic Services to:
- Inpatients on the University of Canberra Hospital and Canberra Hospital Campuses including the Centenary Hospital for Women and Children and the Adult Mental Health Unit
- Outpatients requiring specialist care from the ACT and regional NSW
- Operation of centralised Special Diet Service
- Operation of Infant Feeding Service
- Coordination of Canberra Health Services Clinical Education Program for Nutrition and Dietetic students from various local universities
- Food Service governance activities in partnership with the Canberra Hospital Food Service Department
Under the direction of the Manager Nutrition, the Senior Dietitian is responsible for the provision of clinical dietetic services across the Canberra Hospital Campus. This involves liaising across the Canberra Hospital Campus, partaking in service improvement and quality assurance initiatives and contributing to the supervision and training of fellow Health Professionals and Students.
Under supervision, you will provide clinical dietetic services across the Canberra Health Services and contribute to service improvement and quality improvement/quality assurance activities of the department.
The Senior Dietitian role is required to participate in an after-hours roster, including potential for weekend and public holiday work.
Please note: This temporary, part-time (3 days per week) team leader role will be for a minimum period of 8 months. This position is a great opportunity to display professional supervision and leadership skills and ensure the delivery of a high standard of nutrition and dietetic service. There is the possibility that the role will be extended and may be offered as a fulltime position. Please keep your response to the selection criteria to a maximum of two A4 pages and provide two current referee reports.
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.
- Prior to commencing this role, a current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 is required.
- Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
- Comply with CHS credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements for allied health professionals.
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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