• Part time ongoing role primarily based at Monash Children’s Hospital
  
• Collaborative & professional team environment with extensive support
  
• Salary packaging and excellent staff benefits

Our Journey

Monash Children’s Hospital is one of Australia’s leading providers of integrated children’s health services, with more than 30 specialist services and programs. We have Victoria’s largest Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and provide leading paediatric services in many areas including Rehabilitation, Oncology, Diabetes and Eating Disorders. Dietetics at Monash Children’s provides services to paediatric inpatients, outpatients and Monash Children’s @Home patients across Monash Children’s and Casey Hospitals. This role will be working 3 days per week primarily in the acute setting at Monash Children’s Hospital managing medically complex children, including in the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU).

A Day in the Life

As a grade 2 Dietitian with Monash Children’s Allied Health you will:

• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary colleagues across the service to foster clinical excellence and consistency of practice.
• You will provide comprehensive nutritional assessment, and implement therapeutic diets and enteral/ parenteral nutritional support for medically complex children.
• Travel may be required to Casey Hospital

This position is well supported by a large, dynamic, team with supervision by a Senior Paediatric Dietitian. The position offers training, professional development, the opportunity to cover a range of clinical areas and undertake quality and research activities.

What you need:

• A relevant Dietetics qualification - eligible for membership of the Dietitians Association of Australia and APD program.
• Experience as a Paediatric Dietitian in the acute setting
• Demonstrated clinical skills in paediatric nutritional assessment and management
• Excellent interpersonal skills, a strong team focus and an innovative approach

In Return:

We are a diverse team of paediatric allied health clinicians working in a supportive and flexible department with close links to our community and adult colleagues. We support career progression and professional development, with opportunities to grow your career in many different directions.

For a confidential discussion and to explore the opportunity further, please call Kristin Mellett on 0481 918 297.

Monash Health is a great place to work!

Our employees enjoy a range of benefits including:

• salary packaging options that increase your take-home pay
• a comprehensive Health and Wellbeing program
• free flu vaccinations
• private health insurance at discounted rates
• health imaging services
• & more

Monash Health is Victoria’s largest public health service and proudly provides healthcare to one quarter of Melbourne’s population, across the entire lifespan from newborn and children, to adults, the elderly, their families and carers. More than 22,000 people work at over 40 care locations across south-eastern Melbourne.

We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and ICare values.

How to Apply

Applications are only accepted that are submitted via the Monash Health online Mercury System (e-recruit), via the Apply now link.