Dietitian - Specialist Eating Disorders Service

Location: Melbourne | Parkville

Job type: Fixed term - Part time

Organisation: Austin Health

**Salary**: $47 - $55

Occupation: Health and Allied Health

Reference: 2532
- **Make an impact joining the Infant Child and Youth Mental Health team in a new Eating Disorder Outreach model**:

- **Grade 2 part time (22.8 hours per week), fixed term opportunity until June 2027**:

- **Heidelberg location**

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

**About the Mental Health division**

The Mental Health division is committed to promoting the highest levels of mental health care for our patients. In realising this goal, the division leads and excels in research, teaching and the use of person-centred evidence-based practice. The division provides services on all three campuses of Austin Health, from the Emergency Department through to bed-based services and ongoing ambulatory care.

**About the role**

As the Dietitian, you will be an integral member of the Infant Child and Youth Mental Health Service (ICYMHS) - Eating Disorders Program multidisciplinary team, providing expert clinical assessment and treatment to children and young people with eating disorders (aged 0-25 years) and their families who are referred to Austin Health’s ICYMHS.

A regular day will see you:

- Work closely with the Specialist Eating Disorder Service (SEDS) and the community teams and bed based services.
- Provide clinical eating disorder dietetic assessment, meal and treatment planning, and supporting families involved in treatment within both clinic and outreach settings.
- Support consumers to access mental health services and other relevant community resources to assist in their ongoing treatment and recovery.
- Play a key role in participating and contributing to group and education opportunities of the eating disorder program, including psycho education sessions and family work.
- Some capacity to provide dietetic support to other services across mental health.
- Close collaborative working relationships within SEDS, plus all ICYMHS programs including Lived and Living Experienced Workforce (LLEW).

**About you**

To be successful in this role, you will bring with you:

- Demonstrated clinical expertise in working with children and adolescents with an eating disorder and paediatric nutrition.
- A deep understanding of recovery-focused care in eating disorders and an ability to work from a strengths-based approach.
- Willingness to participate in ongoing training and supervision as part of your role.
- Highly effective communication skills and the ability to engage with staff capacity building their skills and knowledge in eating disorders.
- A commitment to ensuring safe, best-practice care that puts consumers at the heart of the decision-making process.

**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, for living expenses, meals and accommodation.
- 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 at Austin Hospital, easy access via multiple public transport options and car parking.

**Work with us**

**Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the**position description** for further details.**

**Application closing date: Wednesday 12 February 2025