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Principal Allied Health Project Officer (RACF Food Service Review)


Redlands Residential Care, Cleveland and Garden City Office Park, Eight Mile Plains

Shape the Future of Resident-Centred Food Services!

Help redesign and implement a modern, resident-centred food service model for the Redlands Residential Care facility. Use your advanced clinical, project management and stakeholder engagement skills to shape high-quality, sustainable mealtime care for older adults across Metro South Health!

Job details

Position status Fixed Term Temporary
Position type Full-time
Occupational group Project Management
Classification HP5
Workplace Location Brisbane Inner City,Brisbane - South
Job ad reference QLD/MS12670368
Closing date 09-Dec-2025
Job duration 3 months
Contact person Dean Byrnes
Contact details (07) 3156 9544
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About your role

In this senior project role, you will lead the review, redesign and implementation of a contemporary food services model at Redlands Residential Care.

Key aspects of the role include:

  • Leading the planning, development and evaluation of complex food service and mealtime care initiatives.
  • Applying advanced clinical reasoning and evidence-based approaches to support improved resident outcomes.
  • Managing all phases of the project including design, implementation, monitoring and reporting.
  • Delivering high-level documentation including reports, briefings, policy inputs and recommendations.
  • Engaging stakeholders across clinical, operational, governance and consumer groups to co-design service improvements.

About you

You are a highly skilled allied health professional with strong project leadership capability and a passion for improving nutrition, mealtime care and resident experience. 

You will bring:

  • Advanced knowledge of contemporary evidence-based nutrition, dietetics and care models in acute, primary or aged care settings.
  • Expertise in developing and implementing patient-centred, value-based and innovative models of care.
  • High-level organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities, set timelines and monitor progress.
  • Demonstrated experience leading change initiatives in complex multidisciplinary environments.
  • A tertiary degree in Nutrition and Dietetics and membership with the Dietitians Association of Australia and the Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD) credential.

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.

Community and Oral Health Services:

Community and Oral Health Services deliver a broad range of quality community-based care and support services to help people improve and maintain their wellbeing and independence as well as oral health services to adults and children.

We deliver a myriad of services across Metro South including Hospital in the Home, Rehabilitation, Chronic Disease, Acute Care, Dementia Outreach, Oral Health, and specialist residential care along with delivering numerous other vital community health services.

Our services are delivered by multidisciplinary teams of nursing and allied health staff with the skills and experience to treat a full range of health needs.

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 Metro South Health:

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

We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.

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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Last updated
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