- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Lyell McEwin Hospital – Elizabeth Vale
- Salary: AHP1 - $34.48 - $42.10per hour+ 25% loading
- Casual up to 31 July 2025
Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is eager to recruit Dietitians to work in our dynamic, growing and supportive team, to help us deliver exceptional care to our community.
About Us:
Located on Kaurna Country, in the North and North-Eastern Suburbs of Adelaide, close to the world-famous Barossa Valley wine region, and within 30 minutes of the CBD, NALHN serves more than 400 000 people at the Lyell McEwin and Modbury Hospitals, along with our state-of-the-art Specialist Ambulatory Rehabilitation Centre and our community and home-based sites. The network boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergency and Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of more brand-new facilities in the near future. Our 300-plus Allied Health professionals play an integral role in multidisciplinary teams delivering outstanding care to patients across our acute, subacute and hospital avoidance services.
At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.
At NALHN, we have a strong commitment to providing a clinically interesting professional experience, with structured and supportive education and professional development, and career progression pathways.
Some feedback from current employees about working as Allied Health Professionals in NALHN includes:
“My favourite part about working in NALHN is the close working relationships we have across Allied Health to optimise patient care”
“I feel like I’m part of a growing and developing service”
“I love the great team dynamic and the culture of learning and support”
Benefits of working at NALHN:
From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.
Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.
Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.
In addition this, other benefits of working as a Dietitian in NALHN include:
- Professional development opportunities. We have a well established Allied Health Education unit which offers high-quality, targeted in-house training, and staff are also eligible for external, funded professional development via the Allied Health Professionals Plus Professional Development Reimbursement Program, to allow you to continue to build upon your professional foundations;
- Opportunities to participate in research. NALHN have an Allied Health Research Chair, who is able to work with clinicians and teams to support clinical research; and
- Regular clinical supervision, allowing you to receive individualised support, learning and development to help you achieve your career goals.
About You:
Are you a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic Dietitian looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to the community? If so, then this could be the opportunity for you. This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture.
You will be part of a growing Local Health Network (LHN) that provides an expanding suite of treatment modalities in contemporary, modern facilities.
This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a passionate, highly driven, dedicated and progressive team.
About the Role:
An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as a Dietitian within the Allied Health Division.
As a Dietitian you will be responsible for the provision assessment and treatment services for inpatients and outpatients of NALHN which aims to optimise health outcomes. In this role you will rotate through a series of clinical services.
Dietitians apply clinical experience, increasing clinical knowledge and professional competence to plan, implement and evaluate comprehensive and integrated services to the needs of clients of NALHN. In this role you will work under limited direct clinical supervision and may provide direction and support to less experience therapists, allied health assistants and students.
As a Dietitian you will work collaboratively with the Allied Health multi-disciplinary team and liaises directly with medical, nursing staff of NALHN and with other community agencies.
To be eligible for this position, you must hold an appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification which gives eligibility for full membership of the Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA).
The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check.
Check(s)
- DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
- National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (E.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)
Immunisation Risk for this position is – Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances)
SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job Ref: 869476
Enquiries
Allied Health Facilitator
Phone: (08) 8182 9354
E-mail: [email protected]
Application Closing Date
28 June 2024 - 11.55PM
Attachments
869476 - Dietitian - Casual Pool - AHP1 - role description.pdf
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website - How to apply for further information.