Nutrition and Dietetics are looking for a Dietitian (Gastroenterology) – Senior to join their Bayside Health Service team. The purpose of this role is to deliver senior Dietitian services within inpatient services at Redland Hospital and to ambulatory patients as part of the Gastroenterology service (Including Dietitian First services) at Wynnum-Manly Community Health Centre, Gunda Pa and Redland Hospital.

Job details

We are Metro South Health 

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands and the Scenic Rim. We operate five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty and state-wide healthcare services. We are renowned for teaching and research excellence.

We are truly dedicated people who care about our community. We come to work to make a difference. We save lives, changes lives and make the world a better place. We overcome the many challenges that come our way by going above and beyond and achieve the best possible outcomes by working together. We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation and family responsibilities to apply.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace for our people and our community.

We are part of and proud of the community we serve. We are better together.

Join us at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.

About the Role

• Manage an allocated workload to deliver Nutrition and Dietetic services, including assessment, intervention and evaluation within an interprofessional team in accordance with established clinical & departmental protocols, policies and procedures, utilising evidence-based practice and ethical standards and under clinical practice supervision or professional guidance of more senior staff.
• Acts as a clinical reference point with the Nutrition and Dietetic team and responds to every-day clinical demands.
• Collaborate on and undertake the development of evidence-based clinical practices, policies and protocols within the Nutrition and Dietetic team.
• Apply increasingly independent clinical judgement to Nutrition and Dietetic complex decision making with only occasional clinical/professional supervision.

The purpose of this role is to deliver senior Dietitian services within inpatient services at Redland Hospital and to ambulatory patients as part of the Gastroenterology service (Including Dietitian First services) at Wynnum-Manly Community Health Centre, Gunda Pa and Redland Hospital.

This includes:

• Delivering high quality evidenced based Nutrition and Dietetic clinical services to patients/consumers within a highly functioning interprofessional team.
• Contribution to the advancement of quality Nutrition and Dietetic services and optimal patient care, through provision of service development, quality improvement, and clinical education.
• Monitoring and reporting on work practices and outcomes, including initiating, planning and evaluating relevant quality and research initiatives.
• Providing supervision and training to less experienced (HP3) clinicians, students and to Allied Health Assistants (AHA's).

Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description. 

Our values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.  

We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance. 

As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases. 

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Metro South here: https://www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/careers

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online; please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• HP4 Gastro Dietitian RD (PDF, 398KB)
  Role Description
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF, 691KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF, 415KB)
  Information Package for Applicants