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Senior Dietitian
Mount Isa Hospital
Senior Dietitian – Make a Meaningful Regional Impact!
Join NWHHS as a Senior Dietitian and lead high‑level nutrition and dietetic services across a diverse generalist caseload. This position offers the opportunity to influence service delivery, mentor emerging clinicians, and contribute to a strong multidisciplinary team.
Job details
| Position status | Permanent |
|---|---|
| Position type | Full-time |
| Occupational group | Health - Allied Health/Clinical Support |
| Classification | HP4 |
| Workplace Location | North West Qld |
| Job ad reference | QLD/MI678083 |
| Closing date | 01-Apr-2026 |
| Job duration | Permanent, Full-time |
| Contact person | Dayle Easlea |
| Contact details | (07) 4744 4447 Access the National Relay Service |
About the role
You will deliver advanced clinical nutrition and dietetics services across inpatient, outpatient, and community settings. You will lead service delivery, support multidisciplinary collaboration, and play a key role in strengthening nutrition governance and patient outcomes across the North West Hospital and Health Service.
- Provide high‑level clinical dietetics expertise across a broad, generalist caseload, including complex and non‑routine presentations.
- Collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams, food service staff, and external partners to support high‑quality, safe patient care.
- Lead and manage the Nutrition and Dietetics team, including workforce planning, supervision, and professional development.
Working with us
- Eligible health practitioners entitled to accrue an additional three days professional development leave per annum, resulting in a total of six days professional development leave per annum.
- Eligible health practitioners working in designated remote areas will be entitled to a professional development allowance of $3,512.00 per annum.
- Rural and Remote incentive: Category D allowance of $431.22 p.f.
- Tax savings through salary sacrificing options are also available.
Professionally, our HHS values professionalism, leadership capability, excellence and resilience in our staff. We are committed to providing extraordinary opportunities for career development including in-house training, development and mentoring programs.
Requirements
- Potential applicants are advised that the Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian Act 2000 requires a Blue Card is obtained prior to appointment to this position.
- Mandatory requirements are a relevant tertiary degree qualification and appropriate registration/licences.
- C Class Motor Vehicle Licence.
- Pre-employment screening will be conducted for the successful applicant, including Criminal History checks.
- This is a VPD risk role and may require evidence of vaccination or immunity to: Hepatitis A/B, Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Varicella, Pertussis, and Tuberculosis.
- A period of probation may apply.
About North West Hospital and Health Service
The North West Hospital and Health Service (NWHHS) delivers public health services across approximately 300,000 square kilometres, supporting remote communities throughout North Western Queensland and the Gulf of Carpentaria. We are committed to promoting community wellbeing and providing high-quality, accessible and effective healthcare for all.
- Unique locations
- Friendly communities
- Regional, rural and remote $$$ incentives
The lifestyle in Mount Isa is family friendly; it is a vibrant city with an outback community feel. You will fall in love with the natural splendour of the North West Queensland region, the experience of a rural/urban community and the opportunity to make a real and positive difference... and want to stay.
Mount Isa is a great place to live and work!
Interested?
Download the Role Description for further information and application / interview preparation.
Contact: Dayle Easlea on (07) 4744 4447.
Applications close: Wednesday, 1 April 2026.
Further information
We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.
Our vision is to be Queensland's leading HHS delivering excellence in remote healthcare to our patients, working as an integral part of the community.
We are an equal opportunity employer.
Documents
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