Senior Dietitian - SESLHD MHS
Senior Dietitian, Level 4, Eating Disorders - South Eastern Sydney Local Health District Mental Health Service
Employment Type: Temporary Part Time until June 2025
Position Classification: Dietitian Level 4
Remuneration: $61.36 - $62.84 per hour plus superannuation
Hours Per Week: 24
Requisition ID: REQ543997
Location: Kogarah, Sydney
Applications close date: 12 January 2025
Are you an experienced Senior Dietitian and ready for your next career challenge? Looking to develop your specialist clinical skills in a highly supported environment? Do you have an interest in working with and helping people with an eating disorder? This role is for you.
The position works within a specialist multidisciplinary team providing clinical workforce support, guidance, education and workforce capability development to teams/services to improve service capability and the effective care of people with an eating disorder and their families presenting to SESLHD services. This includes dietetic consultation, education and guidance to SESLHD clinicians including generalist inpatient and community services on assessment, clinical management, treatment and discharge planning relating to eating disorders.
As part of the Eating Disorders Clinical Support Team, this position will also provide direct targeted clinical care that supplements existing service provision to people with an eating disorder in inpatient, community-based and virtual care settings. This may include individual treatment, specialist nutritional education and counselling, facilitation of group treatment modes, facilitation of carer support and contribution to the ongoing development of the SESLHD Eating Disorders Specialist Team.
For more information we encourage you to contact Jo Williams on Joanna.Williams@health.nsw.gov.au
Interviews are expected to be held between 20 January 2025 and 24 January 2025
Learn more about us here: South Eastern Sydney Local Health District
Where you'll be working
SESLHD MHS, Kogarah
Additional Information and Benefits
- An eligibility list may be created for future Temporary Part Time positions
- Up to 12 allocated days off each year (for full-time employees) in addition to annual leave.
- Salary packaging options that reduce your taxable income and increase your take-home pay! Up to $9K for living expenses and $2.6K meal & entertainment & Novated Leasing.
- Discounted gym memberships with a Fitness Passport
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for employees and family members.
- Discounted Private Health Insurance.
Selection Criteria:
To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the below questions as thoroughly as possible.
- Qualifications in accordance with Schedule C of the NSW Health Service Health Professionals (State) Award and demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional learning in the area of eating disorders.
- Extensive post graduate clinical experience in eating disorders with demonstrated ability to provide consultation within and external to the organisation.
- Demonstrated understanding of consumer focused, recovery-oriented approach to working with people with mental health concerns and their families.
- Demonstrated ability to provide high level clinical advice, and development of education tools or programs to support others across interdisciplinary setting in providing service excellence.
- Excellent negotiation, decision making and advocacy skills including the ability to interact constructively and collaboratively with a diverse range of stakeholders, throughout all organisational levels.
- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and to apply advanced reasoning skills and independent professional judgement when dealing with situations of a novel, complex or critical nature.
- Demonstrated ability to initiate, lead, complete and share quality improvement initiatives and service evaluation processes, including providing advice to managers to inform clinical service development, and practice change.
- Current unrestricted NSW Class C drivers licence and willingness to travel.
Need more information?
1) Click here for the Position Description and SESLHD Expected Standards
2) Find out more about applying for this position
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Reasonable Adjustments
NSW Health recognises everyone is unique, and that you may require some adjustments to ensure you have the best opportunity to apply. If we can make some adjustments to the NSW Health recruitment/interview process, then please email SESLHD-Recruitment-MentalHealth@health.nsw.gov.au and let us know.
Adjustments may include but are not limited to, physical requirements, interview setups and specific interview availability times where required.
Information for applicants:
- Applicants will be assessed against the essential requirements and selection criteria contained within the position description.
- Recommended applicants will be reviewed for compliance with NSW Health policy directive Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination against Specific Diseases for all positions prior to offer.
- SESLHD is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. This will help ensure our employees, our patients and their carers, feel supported. We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, and Indigenous Australians to apply. We do have an Aboriginal Employment Consultant that can also provide support (SESLHD-AboriginalWorkforce@health.nsw.gov.au) and for additional information please visit our Stepping Up Website
