Dietetic Assistant

**Job no**: 501940
**Work type**: Permanent
**Location**: South Brisbane
**Categories**: Allied Health

**About the role**

Mater Dietetics and Food Services team have an exciting opportunity for a **Dietetic Assistant **to join the team on a part-time basis working 27 hours per week.

Mater Dietetics and Food Services department provides comprehensive, high quality, evidence-based nutrition and dietetic services to all hospitals in Mater Group. Our dietetic assistants are a valued part of the team and complement the role of the dietitians in the department.

**Salary range: $33.19 - $34.67 per hour plus 11.5% superannuation and **access to not-for-profit salary packaging up to $15,900** + **access to many staff benefits

**What you’ll be doing**

Working as a part of a close knit team, you will be required to provide clinical support to the Dietitians across all Mater Hospitals. Your responsibilities may include (but are not limited to):

- Delivering clinical nutrition and dietetic support services to patients under the direction of more senior staff within Nutrition and Dietetics.
- Interpret data from relevant databases into meaningful information to generate appropriate feed production
- Be directly responsible for the daily production, storage and delivery of formula milk in line with hospital procedures
- Receive, store, track and dispense expressed breast milk, pasteurised donor human milk and human milk for donation as per hospital procedures
- Conduct malnutrition screening and related assessment processes
- Manage relevant clinical documentation

This position will be required to cover the full range of shifts of length of 6 hours within the service hours of operation, (8:00am to 7:30pm, 7 days a week).

**About you**

To be successful in this role you will require:

- Demonstrated ability to work as part of a team, as well as independently
- Excellent communication skills
- Flexibility to manage competing demands.
- High level literacy, numeracy and computer skills.
- Previous experience working in a hospital formula preparation room
- Previous experience conducting malnutrition screening with hospital inpatients.
- Certificate IV, Allied Health Assistance (Nutrition & Dietetic Assistance), including competency in formula preparation is highly regarded.

For further information, please contact the **Dietetics Team Leaders on 07 3163 6000.**

For more information specific to the role, please view the PD here - Position Description.pdf

**Why join us?**

Mater is Queensland’s largest and most innovative not-for-profit healthcare service, providing care for almost 700,000 patients a year across a network of 11 hospitals.

We are a leader in healthcare, education and research — and that’s because we employ exceptional people. **#MAKEYOURMATERMOVE**
- Via salary packaging arrangements, allocate some living expenses directly from your pre-taxable income and ultimately increase your take-home pay
- Access to package meal and entertainment expenses via salary packaging
- Access to leading education and professional development via Mater Education
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program and on-site pastoral care teams
- Discounts to local and national business/venues for Dining/Retail/Travel & Accommodation/Other
- Unlimited access to a multitude of discounted fitness facilities through Fitness Passport
- Access to on-site, discounted parking
- Discounted food and beverage at various campus cafés and coffee venues
- Access to gym, pool and end of trip facilities within our new purpose-built corporate office in Newstead

Mater is committed to the wellbeing of their staff, and it is underpinned by our flexible and remote working policies.
- For more information regarding Reconciliation at Mater, please visit our _Reconciliation webpage_._

**Advertised**: 07 Nov 2024 E. Australia Standard Time
**Applications close**: 20 Nov 2024 E. Australia Standard Time