The purpose of this
position is to provide daily supervision to a small team of Nutrition
Assistants, to advise senior managers on all operational issues required to
maintain an effective service and to work within a multi-disciplinary team
working with Dietitians, other Health Care Professionals and Food Service staff
to help optimise patient nutritional care by:
- Assisting
the Dietitians in the clinical implementation and daily management of
patients’ nutritional care plans including malnutrition risk screening,
nutrition cart mid-meal delivery and meal time monitoring. - Working
within established procedures and guidelines to perform duties related to
meal and mid-meal provision, collation of menus, managing electronic
reports and participation in quality improvement initiatives i.e. audits.
Remuneration value
up to $70 851 p.a., comprising salary between $56 627 – $62 098 p.a., employer
contribution to superannuation (up to 12.75%) and annual leave loading (17.5%)
(OO4) (Applications will remain current for 12 months). Job Ad Reference:
MSL08217392.
At Metro South
Health, we provide quality public health care to our local community – a
population of over one million people. Every day, around the clock, we’re faced
with challenges with the highest stakes; but we remain focussed on the needs of
our patients.
https://metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/our-values-video
Some roles within
Queensland Health are designated as ‘Vaccination Preventable Disease (VPD) risk
roles’. A VPD risk role is a role in which the incumbent may be exposed to the
risk of acquisition and/or transmission of a VPD. If you are applying for
a role that has been designated as a VPD risk role you must be able to provide
evidence that you either:
- have
been vaccinated against the VPD’s listed in the role description; or - you are
not susceptible to the VPD’s listed in the role description.
You will be asked by
the recruiting manager to supply this evidence if you are the preferred
candidate for the role. Any job offer would be subject to the supply of
evidence related to VPD in addition to other required employment screening.
More information and evidence forms can be found at here.
How to
Apply:
For full details of
this position, please ensure you download the Role Description and Information
Package for Applicants for instructions on how to apply for this role.
You will need to register with smartjobs.qld.gov.au to apply online. If you have difficulty
viewing this role description in .pdf format, please contact recruitment_metrosouth@health.qld.gov.au
to request it in .doc format.Please note that if the
information requested in the ‘how to apply’ section is not provided you may not
meet the requirements for further consideration of your application. The
Information Package for Applicants outlines pre-employment checks that will be
undertaken for successful applicants.
