Dietitian, Grade 3

Location: Melbourne | Parkville

Job type: Fixed term - Part time

Organisation: The Royal Children's Hospital

**Salary**: $104,300 - $121,400

Occupation: Medical and Nursing

Reference: 12316

**Dietitian - Grade 3**:
**Part time (0.8EFT) Fixed term role for 12 months**
- Excellent employee benefits including salary packaging
- Ongoing training and development opportunities, including clinical supervision
- Hub of medical precinct in Parkville, Melbourne

**The Role**:
This is a Part time 0.8EFT Fixed term role within the Nutrition and Food Services department. Your primary responsibility will be the provision of specialidst high quality nutritional care to paediatric patients requiring dietary modification or nutritional support and their families; clinical workload will include oncology and neuromuscular clinic and other medical specialities as required. The role also includes the provision of clinical supervision and mentoring within the dietetic team, leadership in the quality improvement portfolio and active participation in quality improvement activites, as well as teaching and training students and clinicians. It may also include rotation on the weekend oncall roster.

**What you’ll achieve**:

- Work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team to ensure patient care is integrated and effective
- Provide nutritional care to paediatric patients (inpatients and outpatients) and nutritional support across a variety of specialist/medical units
- Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders, including food service and formula room staff, to ensure patient and ward needs are addressed effectively
- As an experienced paediatric clinician provide clinical and professional support, clinical supervision and mentoring to less senior clinicians.
- Leadership of the quality portfolio and active participation of quality improvement activities within the Department.

Classification for this position with range from AK1 - AK4 Grade 3 Year 1 to Grade 3 Year 4 ($104,300 to $121,400)

**Your skills and experience**:

- Eligibility for full Membership of Dietitians Australia
- Eligibility for the Accredited Practising Dietitian Program
- Experience in clinical dietetics, minimum of 7 years, including sound background knowledge of paediatrics.

If this sounds like you, click **here** to view the position description.

**About Nutrition and Food Services**:
The Department of Nutrition and Food Services at The Royal Children's Hospital incorporates the clinical dietetic service, the Main Kitchen that caters for inpatient meals and the Central Formula Room that produces formula, enteral feeds and fortifies expressed breast milk to meet the nutritional needs of patients. The Department is also a registered NDIS provider.

**What we offer**:

- Salary Packaging - Increase your take home pay
- Staff Wellbeing Hub
- Discounted on-site car parking

**Other requirements**:

- Current National Criminal Record Check, or willing to obtain
- Valid Working with Children Check
- Current NDIS Worker Screening Check, or willing to obtain
- Compliance with RCHs “Staff Immunisation - Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases” procedure

**Application process**:
To apply, you will need a resume and a tailored cover letter outlining your skills, experience, and suitability for the position in line with the requirements of the position description

**Why work at the RCH?**

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact. We offer the opportunity to work in world-class facilities, surrounded by Royal Park and only a short tram trip from the heart of Melbourne city.

We also offer discounted staff parking, salary packaging, and an award-winning health and wellbeing program.

It is a requirement of your employment that you be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, and Influenza annually for Category A and B roles, in compliance with any public health orders in place at the relevant time, unless you have a medical exception in line with those public health orders, which has been accepted by The Royal Children’s Hospital. Applicants will be required to provide their Australian Government Immunisation History Statement, it is a requirement of the RCH to collect, record and hold vaccination information.

It is also a requirement of your employment that you comply with any direction given by The Royal Children’s Hospital that you be vaccinated against, or prove immunity to, any other disease, unless you have a relevant exemption

**Are you ready to join our team?**

Applications close **23 October 2024