Senior Dietitian & CBORD Database Manager – Join Metro South Health to shape food service excellence.

Join Metro South Health as a Temporary Part-Time Senior Dietitian (April–September) at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, supporting multiple facilities across Brisbane’s south, and play a pivotal role in clinical nutrition, CBORD database management, and service improvement.

Job details

Your new role:

As a Senior Dietitian and CBORD Database Manager, you will deliver high-quality Nutrition and Dietetics services while supporting food service operations across Metro South Health. Your role will involve:

• Managing the CBORD electronic foodservice system and supporting staff across multiple facilities including PAH, QEII, Bayside, and Logan Hospital.
• Delivering evidence-based nutrition care to patients, adapting complex clinical practices with minimal supervision.
• Providing supervision, guidance, and training to students, Allied Health Assistants, and less experienced clinicians.
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to improve patient outcomes, quality initiatives, and service development.
• Leading enhancements in CBORD systems and food service processes, including quality improvement and research activities.

About you:

We are seeking a Dietitian who combines clinical expertise with technical and leadership skills. The ideal candidate demonstrates:

• Eligibility for Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD) status and strong nutrition and dietetics clinical experience.
• Experience in food service management, preferably with electronic foodservice systems (CBORD).
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to supervise, mentor, and guide students and staff.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and conflict resolution skills in multidisciplinary teams.
• Initiative in identifying, planning, and implementing service improvements and quality initiatives.

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What we can offer you:

• Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance.
• Opportunities to engage in innovative research, teaching, and service improvement projects.
• Exposure to a diverse and inclusive healthcare environment across multiple facilities.
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

About us:

Princess Alexandra Hospital:

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.

We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.

We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

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 better together.

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.

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS03678076_Role Description (PDF)