Dietitian

**About Grampians Health**

Grampians Health was established 1 November 2021, bringing together Edenhope and District Memorial Hospital, Stawell Regional Health, Wimmera Health Care Group and Ballarat Health Services to deliver safe, sustainable, healthcare tailored to changing workforce and community needs, for the long term.

This partnership follows years of strong collaboration and close partnerships between the four health services. Together, we will deliver better healthcare, enhance services and advance careers, closer to home, now and into the future.

A career with Grampians Health means you are connected and are part of a team providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities.

Our communities are diverse - as is our workforce, with expert clinical staff from across the world choosing to live and work in our beautiful region.

Grampians Health provides acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care, administration and support services. This means your career will be as diverse and rewarding as you strive to be.

**About the role**

This position is an exciting opportunity to join the dietetics’ team within Ballarat as a senior staff member. With regional service provision, opportunities exist to build skill and experience in multiple areas including eating disorders, acute and community-based programs. The opportunity to have a diversified case load means the successful applicant will be able to work within a range of different multi-disciplinary teams and have broad exposure to a range of health conditions. We work as one department and have a supportive, friendly environment. Our work includes clinical services, research, quality and improvement, food service and student education. We pride ourselves on having established Clinical Supervision.

**Skills and experience**

The Dietitian who joins our team will:

- be a positive and enthusiastic contributor to our multidisciplinary care team
- have an interest in working within our expanding eating disorders multi-disciplinary team and be working towards Eating Disorders Credentialing
- be committed to providing exceptional quality health care at all times
- be comfortable working with a broad patient caseload, including a broad range of clinical diagnoses, patient age groups and demographics across multiple sites and outpatients
- be hardworking, hands on and diligent in approach;
- be able to self-reflect and continue to build on clinical skills and capacity
- be an active problem solver and work within the dietetics department to provide ‘exceptional’ patient care to our communities

We are looking for someone who loves their job as a Dietitian, who will benefit from being part of a fully supported work environment, and who is looking for career longevity within our team and is looking for an opportunity to bring their dietetic expertise to a department to foster ongoing growth, development and expansion of our knowledge within the team

If the answer is “YES” to the above, we would love to hear from you

**Grampians Health Culture & Benefits**

At Grampians Health, we recognise our staff are our greatest asset. We are committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for our staff, patients, residents, visitors, volunteers and contractors at all sites.
- Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays
- Access to discounted health club membership
- Staff rewards and recognition programs

**Ballarat Region**
Ballarat is the largest centre in Western Victoria and the states fastest growing inland city. Dubbed Australia’s most liveable city in 2020, Ballart is home to first class education, fine dining and boutique shopping. Uniquely located within easy access to Melbourne, Geelong, Bendigo and the Western district, Ballarat is blessed with some of Australia’s most significant heritage buildings and natural landscapes.

**How to apply**
Click **APPLY** or contact Kerri Gordon, Clinical Manager Dietetics on 0418 514 431 for a confidential discussion.

All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask. Additional PPE requirements are role-dependent.
- Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people._

**Selection Criteria**
- Essential : Please provide a summary of your experience working with patients with eating disorders and/or disordered eating? This can include both inpatient and/or outpatient/community experience.
- Essential : Please describe your dietetic experience, including some of the areas you are currently working within? Interested in your ICU and Critical Care experience, acute and outpatient experience
- Essential : Please describe you experience working within the area of oncology? What was your contribution working within an multi-disciplinary team? What are some learnings from working wi