Make a meaningful impact on patient care as a Nutrition Assistant with Darling Downs Health.
In this dynamic role, you'll work closely with Dietitians and a supportive, multidisciplinary team to provide essential nutrition care across diverse clinical settings.
If you're passionate about nutrition and eager to contribute to improving patient outcomes, this is an exciting opportunity to grow your skills and make a real difference!What Your Day Will Look Like….In this role, you'll contribute to the delivery of high-quality nutrition care by assisting Dietitians with both clinical and non-clinical tasks.
You'll perform nutrition assessments and interventions, utilising decision support tools, clinical guidelines, and pathways, all while working in dynamic inpatient and outpatient settings.
Throughout the day, you'll collaborate with Dietitians, nursing staff, and food services to ensure that patients receive the nutrition support they need.
You'll be involved in client record-keeping, food service reporting, and helping to monitor and improve the standards of nutrition care.
Additionally, your role includes mentoring less experienced staff and participating in team activities focused on continuous learning and service improvement.
With a variety of tasks and the opportunity to make a real difference in patient outcomes, your work will be both impactful and rewarding.Let's talk about you!Our ideal candidate will be someone who can inspire the following:Compassion – you will engage with others and demonstrate empathy, care, kindness, support and understanding.Integrity – you are open, honest, approachable, equitable and consistent in everything we do.Dignity – you treat others with respect, display reasonableness and take pride in what you do.Innovation – you embrace change and strive to know more, learn more and do better.Courage – you respectfully question for clarity and have the strength and confidence to Speak Up.Why Us?Darling Downs Health's (DDH) region is a large geographic area covering approximately 90,000 square kilometres across Southeast Queensland.
We are one of the largest employers in the region, with a diverse team of more than 6,000 staff.
We deliver frontline health services across our 30 facilities and care for nearly 300,000 people, support the birth of almost 3,000 babies and perform more than 15,000 breastscreens.We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas throughout our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work culture that values and respects diversity in the workplace.
We also believe that all our employees should be treated fairly, with dignity and with respect.
DDH is committed to providing a safe, secure, supportive, and inclusive workplace.Benefits!Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlementsA diverse work cultureCareer developmentProfessional development opportunitiesEducation opportunities, Study and ResearchPaid parental leaveEmployee Assistance Program (EAP)Discounted Private Health InsuranceFitness PassportWork-Life Balance, Variety and FlexibilityGenerous Salary SacrificingNext step….
Applicants are to apply online and supply the requested documentation.Find out more about us!Work with Us | RuralWork with Us | Toowoomba#WorkDDHHS #therightfitOccupational group: Health - Allied Health/Clinical Support
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