Lead Nutrition Care That Makes a Difference in Cancer Services

Use your advanced clinical expertise to deliver evidence-based nutrition care for people with cancer at Princess Alexandra Hospital. Join a collaborative multidisciplinary team where you'll lead complex clinical care, mentor clinicians and students, and contribute to service improvement, research and innovation to improve patient outcomes. This role is Temporary part time (45.6 hours per fortnight) for 12 months with possibility of extension

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Your new role:

As the Senior Dietitian within Cancer Services, you'll provide expert nutrition care for patients with complex needs while working as part of a highly skilled multidisciplinary team. You'll combine advanced clinical practice with leadership, education and quality improvement to enhance patient outcomes and help shape the future of cancer nutrition services. In this role, you will:

• Deliver advanced, evidence-based nutrition assessment, intervention and ongoing management for patients receiving cancer care.
• Provide clinical leadership, supervision and mentoring to dietitians, students and allied health assistants.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to support patient-centred care, discharge planning and service delivery.
• Lead and contribute to quality improvement, clinical education, research and the development of evidence-based practice.

About you:

We're looking for an experienced and collaborative clinician who is passionate about delivering exceptional patient care. You'll bring:

• Advanced clinical expertise in oncology or complex acute nutrition and dietetics practice.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to build strong relationships across multidisciplinary teams.
• Leadership and mentoring capability, supporting the development of colleagues, students and service excellence.
• A commitment to continuous improvement, with experience in quality improvement, evidence-based practice or research initiatives.

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What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• 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:

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.

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• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
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  MS08689687 Role Description (PDF)