Senior Paediatric Dietitian, Brighter Beginnings Health and Development Checks Preschool Program
Join us as a key member of the Brighter Beginnings Health and Development Checks (BBHDC) in Preschools Service Team, part of the Northern Sydney Local Health District (NSLHD) Child, Youth, and Family Community Health Service. You will work alongside experienced colleagues, playing an essential role in delivering the NSW First 2000 Days Policy to support preschool-aged children and their families in early childhood education settings.
Employment Type: Temporary Part Time until 30 June 2026 (with possibility of ongoing employment)
Position Classification: Dietitian (Level 3)
Remuneration: $56.69 - $58.52 per hour
Hours Per Week: 16
Requisition ID: REQ541862
Who we are : We are a health service that touches thousands of lives across the Northern Sydney Local Health District, together as a team of like-minded people. We are passionate, driven and have the skills and knowledge to care for our patients whilst creating the best services possible. Our teams have meaningful, interesting and rewarding work everyday. We challenge and nurture each other, sharing our knowledge and experience so that we can deliver better care for everyone There’s a real sense of belonging here because we value and respect our patients, employees, and teams’ voices. You’ll feel a real privilege being a trusted caregiver in our patients, their families, their carers, and our communities’ lives.
NSLHD is proud of our diverse and inclusive workplaces, a place where health care professionals can thrive and feel they belong. We are committed to ensure that all our people feel respected and participate safely within a work environment without aggression, sexual harassment, discrimination and racism.
Where you'll be working
Royal North Shore Community Health Centre as part of the Brighter Beginnings Health and Development Checks Team
What you'll be doing
The Senior Dietitian works both autonomously and collaboratively as part of the interdisciplinary Brighter Beginnings Health and Development Checks (BBHDC) Preschool Team, providing child-focused health and development screening, assessment and brief interventions for preschool age-children attending Early Childhood Education (ECE) centres across the Northern Sydney Region. The BBHDC program is a collaboration between NSW Health, the NSW Department of Early Education and preschools and aims to identify children’s health and development support needs, and enhance their access to early intervention services, before they start primary school.
This senior dietitian holds specialist expertise and advanced practice skills in infant and child nutritional needs in the first 2000 days of life and applies this high-level knowledge to engage and work in partnership with families and children to develop effective recommendations and care plans for children from diverse backgrounds, including vulnerable families. The role also facilitates referrals and supports families to access children's Dietetics services and ensures safe clinical handover. They also apply high level interpersonal communication skills to actively contribute to interdisciplinary team case reviews, children’s care planning conferences and to coordinate care.
The role assists with developing resources suitable for children from diverse backgrounds and offers advice to ECE staff and assists with BBHDC capacity building programs for ECE centres to promote optimal child nutrition. Provide clinical education and supervision for students.
The BBHD Team is part of the Northern Sydney Local Health District (NSLHD) Child, Youth and Family (CYF) Community Health Service and the role reports professionally and operationally to the CYF Speech Pathology and Dietetics Team Leader.
The CYF service philosophy of care revolves around working in partnership with families, providing child-centred, safe, culturally sensitive, trauma and evidence-informed, neurodiversity affirming and integrated care that optimises lifelong health, development, learning, wellbeing and social participation outcomes for children and families.
People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background encouraged to apply.
Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:
- Must hold a bachelor or post graduate degree in nutrition and dietetics that provides eligibility for full membership of the Dietitians Association of Australia.
- High level clinical knowledge of Paediatric Dietetics and evidence of extensive clinical experience as a Dietitian Level 2 in assessing, planning and evaluating nutritional interventions for children aged 0-5 years, who present with developmental and complex social or health needs, including trauma.
- Demonstrated ability to provide high-level clinical consultation, information, guidance and education to parents, caregivers and Early Childhood Educators to facilitate and promote optimal child nutrition and development.
- Demonstrated commitment to evidence-based practice, evidence of quality improvement and service evaluation skills and experience. Understanding of population health concepts.
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For role related queries or questions contact Anastasia Scott on Anastasia.Scott@health.nsw.gov.au or 0428 984 596
This is a NSW Health Category A position which requires immunisation and screening for certain diseases. The full list of requirements are outlined in the NSW Health OASV Policy (Page 11). You will be required to complete the OASV Undertaking/ Declaration Form and TB Assessment Tool during the recruitment process. Please upload this with your application along with any other vaccination evidence that you may have.
NSW Health is committed to implementing the Child Safe Standards.
Applications Close: 6 January 2025
Tentative Interview Date: 23 January 2025
