Senior Renal Dietitian

💡 Specialise in Renal Nutrition Across a Diverse Patient Cohort
🏥 Join a Collaborative and Supportive Multidisciplinary Team
📚 Lead, Mentor and Drive Quality Improvement Initiatives
 

Shape patient outcomes through expert renal nutrition care, mentor emerging clinicians, and lead evidence-based practice across a dynamic renal service.
 

Employment Type: Permanent Part Time
Position Classification: Dietitian Level 3
Remuneration: $58.95 - $60.86 per hour
Hours Per Week: 24
Location: Blacktown and Mount Druitt Hospitals
 

Where you'll be working
Blacktown and Mount Druitt Hospitals are committed to delivering high-quality, patient-centred care to one of Australia's most diverse and rapidly growing communities. As part of the Nutrition and Dietetics Department, you will work closely with the Western Renal Service and multidisciplinary teams to support patients across the continuum of renal care, including those receiving dialysis at the Blacktown Regional Dialysis Centre and Blacktown Hospital.

Working within a supportive and innovative environment, you will have opportunities to contribute to service development, education, research, and leadership initiatives while making a meaningful impact on the lives of patients with chronic kidney disease.

·       Work across Blacktown Hospital and the Blacktown Regional Dialysis Centre.

·       Collaborate with experienced medical, nursing and allied health professionals.

·       Access ongoing professional development and specialist renal nutrition learning.

·       Contribute to quality improvement, research and service innovation projects.

·       Support the growth of future clinicians through supervision and mentoring opportunities.

What you'll be doing 
As the Senior Renal Dietitian, you will provide specialised nutrition assessment, education and therapeutic dietary management to patients with renal disease. You will play a key role in delivering evidence-based care, supporting multidisciplinary decision-making, and enhancing clinical outcomes for patients receiving renal services.

·       Deliver specialised renal nutrition assessment, counselling, education and diet therapy to outpatient and dialysis patients.

·       Provide clinical supervision, mentoring and support to junior dietitians and dietetic students.

·       Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to optimise nutritional care and patient outcomes.

·       Lead and contribute to quality improvement, accreditation and research activities within renal nutrition services.

·       Develop educational resources, deliver professional education and maintain advanced clinical expertise in renal nutrition management.

How to Apply
Apply online by submitting your resume and addressing the criteria listed below by providing examples that demonstrate your ability before the closing date.

Essential Criteria:

·       Qualification:  Eligible for full membership of the Dietitian’s Australia 

Selection Criteria: 

1.     Eligible for full membership of the Dietitian’s Australia

2.     Extensive post graduate clinical experience in the nutritional management of complex renal patients and up to date knowledge of dietetic practice

3.     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.

4.     Ability to provide in-depth advice and education to enhance service delivery and to guide and support others in providing service excellence, with the capacity to provide clinical supervision to other staff

5.     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

6.     Ability to initiate, lead, complete and share quality improvement initiatives and service evaluation processes and lead ongoing quality improvement activities with other staff

7.     Demonstrated commitment to ongoing clinical and professional learning

Requisition ID: REQ670176
Applications Close: 12^th July 2026

Need more information?

·       Find out more about applying for this position.

·       Review the detailed Position Description for insights into role requirements and criteria.

·       Explore the selection process, employment checks, outcomes and notifications.

·       For inquiries about the role, contact Caroline Cusack on Caroline.Cusack@health.nsw.gov.au.