Senior Clinician, Dietitian Level 3, Eating Disorders in Sydney

Senior Clinician, Dietitian Level 3, Eating Disorders - South Eastern Sydney Local Health District Mental Health Service.

Employment Type: Permanent Part Time

Position Classification: Dietitian Level 3

Remuneration: $61.31 - $63.30 per hour, plus superannuation

Hours Per Week: 16

Location: Kogarah, Sydney

The SESLHD Mental Health Service is a specialised clinical service, providing care to a local population of over 930,000 residents in the Sydney metropolitan area. We provide care within both hospital and community settings to support people living with mental illness at times when acute intervention is needed, or to remain well in their community and lead their own recovery.

This role supports safe and effective comprehensive care of people with an eating disorder accessing SESLHD mental health inpatient services. It provides targeted clinical nutrition care to consumers with an eating disorder admitted to and stepping down from Mental Health Inpatient units.

The Eating Disorders dietitian works within the Eating Disorder Program of the Mental Health Service and provides essential specialist dietetics services including:

• Individual assessment
• Treatment
• Nutritional education and counselling
• Care planning
• Carer support
• Handover to enable effective continuity of care

This role will apply extensive and high-quality dietetics knowledge skills and care within eating disorders consistent with NSW Health, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) policies, procedures and standards. Responsibilities include supervision, quality improvement initiatives, education delivery to other health care professionals and teaching of students on clinical placement.

This part-time opportunity is designed to support a strong work-life balance, with flexible working arrangements, reduced hours, and the ability to structure your week around personal commitments. Part-time candidates will benefit from a manageable caseload, supportive supervision, and a collaborative multidisciplinary environment that prioritises both clinician wellbeing and high-quality care. Ongoing professional development and career growth opportunities are also available.

Where you'll be working: South Eastern Sydney Local Health District, Mental Health Service, Kogarah.

Additional Benefits:

• Financial benefits - Salary packaging options - Up to $9K for living expenses, $2.6K meal & entertainment, and Novated Leasing.
• Discounted Private Health Insurance.
• Work-life balance - Up to 12 allocated days off each year (for full-time employees) in addition to annual leave.
• Professional growth - Learning and development opportunities, including in-house training with RTO My Health Learning.
• Health & Wellbeing - Discounted gym memberships with a Fitness Passport and Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for employees and family members.

Selection Criteria:

• Qualifications in accordance with Schedule C of the NSW Health Service Health Professionals (State) Award and that are acceptable for membership with Dietitians Australia and demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional learning.
• Post graduate clinical experience in the provision of dietetic care for consumers with eating disorders.
• Demonstrated understanding of consumer focused, recovery-oriented approach to working with people with mental health concerns and their families.
• Excellent negotiation, decision making and advocacy skills including the ability to interact constructively and collaboratively with a diverse range of stakeholders, throughout all organisational levels.
• Demonstrated ability to provide high level clinical advice, education and support to others across interdisciplinary settings to provide service excellence.
• Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and to apply advanced reasoning skills and independent professional judgement when dealing with situations of a novel, complex or critical nature.
• Demonstrated ability to initiate, lead, complete and share quality improvement initiatives and service evaluation processes.
• Current drivers licence and/or willingness to travel between sites.

Our values and commitment to diversity:

Our CORE Values are Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment. We embrace diversity as our strength and are committed to maintaining an inclusive and collaborative work environment. Our workplaces are welcoming and safe for all our employees, irrespective of their unique characteristics including age, ethnicity, cultural or spiritual background, gender identity, education and socio-economic status. We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates and people with different abilities.

Reasonable Adjustments:

NSW Health recognises everyone is unique, and that you may require some adjustments to ensure you have the best opportunity to apply. If we can make some adjustments to the NSW Health recruitment/interview process, please email SESLHD-Recruitment-MentalHealth@health.nsw.gov.au.

Information for applicants:

• An eligibility list may be created for future Temporary Full Time positions.
• Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified for this position following suitable labour market testing.
• Applicants will be assessed against the essential requirements and selection criteria contained within the position description.
• Recommended applicants will be reviewed for compliance with NSW Health policy directive Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination Against Specific Diseases for all positions prior to offer.