A full time Grade 3 dietitian position is available from 11/9/17 in Western Health for a motivated, dynamic and suitably experienced dietitian.

The position is based at Sunshine Hospital and is responsible for nutrition service in the areas of Critical Care Nutrition (ICU), Parenteral Nutrition, General Surgery and Respiratory. The successful candidate will be both a clinical leader and nutrition operations lead, who has demonstrated capability to work collaboratively with key stakeholders to deliver excellence in patient care, teaching and service development and planning.

Experience in Critical Care Nutrition and General Surgery including Total Parenteral Nutrition is essential for this position. Experience in Respiratory is highly desirable.
This role has a strong leadership and multidisciplinary team focus in the clinical streams of critical care and surgical services and also to the acute Nutrition team at Sunshine Hospital. A major responsibility of this role is leading the clinical operations of inpatient nutrition services. This includes but is not limited to; day to day responsibilities for inpatient staffing, workload management and planning, clinical supervision and teaching.

There is significant opportunity to lead and participate in the quality and research projects for the Nutrition service and student supervision program.