Dietitian

**Grade** 2** Dietitian**:

- **Fixed term, **part **time **1**2 **hrs**/week**:

- **Work allocation: paediatrics and mental health**:

- **Located primarily at Austin **campus**:

- **Start date from **4 March **202**4**, end date **7** February 202**5**:

- **Pay range **$**46.88 to 53.04** **per hour + salary packaging + super + higher qualification allowance if applicable.**

Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the Northeast of Melbourne and state-wide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our purpose, which is to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

**About the Nutrition and Dietetics Department**

Our department has around 40 staff members across three sites - Austin (acute care), Repat (sub-acute care) and Talbot (rehabilitation), providing services to inpatients, outpatients and home & community programs. We operate as one department and come together for staff meetings and staff education. Our work environment is vibrant, fast paced, friendly, fun and supportive. Our clinical teams and department portfolios are led by highly experienced and skilled dietitians. Our clinical teams are ICU/surgical/gastro, oncology, paediatrics & mental health, sub-acute care and ambulatory care. We have portfolios for staff education, student training, quality and safety, research, nutrition support, food service, outpatient services and operations.

**Details of position**

This position is based primarily on the Austin site and will work as part of our Paediatrics and Mental Health stream. The workload will include child & adolescent eating disorders and adult general mental health. Workload allocation will be across both inpatient and ambulatory settings and may vary according to operational needs across the stream and the department. You will need to work Thursday afternoons and Friday mornings as that’s when the clinics run; the other four hours is flexible but would ideally be done on one of these days. There may be opportunity to work extra hours when we need leave cover, and opportunity to work beyond current contract end date.

**About you**:
Ideally, you’ll have:

- Sound clinical nutrition knowledge in various areas with demonstrated depth of knowledge in managing patients with eating disorders and general mental health conditions.
- Demonstrated ability to provide leadership and to work effectively in a team environment.
- Demonstrated high-level communication skills.
- Effective counselling skills and commitment to patient-centred care.
- Demonstrated understanding of hospital food service systems and how to work effectively with food service staff.
- Demonstrated organisational skills, efficient workload management and ability to prioritise.

**Our benefits**:
Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

- Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounts on fitness memberships and health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
- Mentoring and career development opportunities
- Onsite childcare, easy access via public transport, car parking and end of journey facilities for cyclists
- Five weeks annual leave

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