Dietitian

Wellness

• Business Royal Rehab
• Date 10 September 2021
• Location Sydney,NSW
• Salary TBA
• Application close date 26 September 2021

• Salary packaging and WFH options available
• 24 hours per week until November 2022
• Royal Rehab Ryde campus and community locations
• Laptop, ipad & mobile phone provided
• Royal Rehab is Australia’s leading provider of rehabilitation and disability services.

 
Highly regarded for our specialist expertise in brain and spinal cord injury rehabilitation, Royal Rehab is also renowned for supported accommodation services, our private hospitals, our purpose-built resort for people with spinal cord injury and community services delivering holistic quality care.
 
Born from the compassion of one remarkable woman over 120 years ago, Royal Rehab continues to enrich the lives of the people it serves. Our skilled multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals support people to achieve as much independence and quality of life as possible. This includes assisting people to adjust to changed abilities, relearn skills and gain new ones, and reintegrate into their homes and the community.
 
A career at Royal Rehab is both rewarding and unlike any other and is an opportunity to make a difference with an iconic organization. We pride ourselves on our skilled workforce which is committed to delivering the very best for the people we serve. Representing a broad range of different professions, our people are united by our values of honesty, respect, working together and innovative thinking and are inspired by a commitment to clinical excellence, education and research, and personalized care.
 
 
 
The Community Rehab Service (CRS) Dietitian is a key member of the CRS multidisciplinary team. The successful applicant will provide high quality dietetic interventions to clients in various community settings for a variety of conditions. Dietetic intervention may occur:
 

• In the client’s own home or another community setting
• In a range of supported accommodation houses or facilities
• In the Outpatient Department at Royal Rehab at Ryde
• Via telehealth or phone consults

 
 
 
Your main Duties will include:
 

• Providing high quality, timely dietetic services to clients in line with evidence-based principles
• Assisting relevant clients, staff, family and carers in implementing nutrition plans
• To work as part of the multidisciplinary team within CRS and the wider Dietetics service at Royal Rehab Ryde. This may involve working in or providing cover to other community and inpatient units from time to time.

 
We seek a self-motivated and friendly individual with:
 
Essential
 

• Current Registration with Dietitians Australia with an active Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD) status
• Extensive experience (4 or more years)* working as a dietitian in rehabilitation and community settings
• Experience conducting assessments and implementing interventions in a variety of settings to a broad range of client groups including complex enteral feeding case loads
• Experience working within health, disability (NDIS and I-Care) and Aged Care frameworks.
• Demonstrated high level interpersonal communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills
• Demonstrated advanced clinical and professional skills to independently manage a diverse caseload, while maintaining contact with the wider multidisciplinary team utilising sound time management and organisation skills.
• Commitment to evidence-based practice and professional growth and development.
• Demonstrated experience in quality improvement and research
• Computer literacy including demonstrated competence using Foodworks, CBORD, Microsoft Word, email and Internet
• Class C Driver’s License and access to own car. Staff may be required to travel to visits in their own vehicle. Mileage/ petrol costs can be claimed.

Desirable
 

• Experience supervising junior clinicians, allied health assistants and/ or students.

* Applicants who do not meet the Allied Health Award Level 3 criteria may still be considered and offered a contract with an award rate in line with their current clinical experience.
 

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