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Join SA Health as a Senior Dietitian - for Women and Children at Flinders Medical Centre, where you will make a meaningful difference in the lives of South Australian families. This part-time, short-term contract position runs until 30 June 2026 and offers the opportunity to lead nutritional care while working in specialised clinical areas.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Service manager this role is responsible for ensuring that evidence-based systems, procedures and protocols are developed, implemented and reviewed within their team, to achieve safe practice, and high-quality patient outcomes. They have responsibility for leading a team of professional dietitians in Women's and Children's (W&C) Division and provide Leadership and clinical supervision of these staff. The senior dietitian oversees co-ordination of the team function and workloads.

The Senior Dietitian specialises within a certain clinical area or areas relating to their team. The Senior Dietitian is part of the W&C allied Health leadership team and works collaboratively with this group to achieve outcomes of the service and division.  

Duties for the role will include:

• Being responsible for evaluating the completeness and adequacy of the nutrition care aspects of patient care, through liaison with nursing, medical and catering staff.
• Taking Leadership in guiding other departmental staff members in the area of allocated nutrition. 
• Participating in ward rounds, meetings and conferences to integrate nutritional care into total patient care including those of the allocated units and other units as required.
• Being Responsible for the nutrition/dietetic counselling on an individual or group basis of inpatients, outpatients where appropriate, and other relevant groups.

About you:

• Ability to lead a co-ordinate a team and foster good working relationships both internally and externally.
• Demonstrated experience in a leadership role.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills that foster trust, confidence and co-operation at all levels of the organisation.
• Excellent skills in problem solving, decision making, negotiation and conflict resolution.
• Specialised Clinical experience in the dietetic management of a range of conditions affecting Women and children, including neonates.

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Emma Dunning, Senior Dietitian, 0422759191, Emma.Dunning@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Monday the 9th of March 2026

Attachments:

• Senior Deititian Role Description
• Australian applicant guidelines
• International applicant guidelines

Applicant Information:

• We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Click here to find out more about salary packaging.
• The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
• Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and Immunisation compliance as indicated on the Role description.
• SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.  Job ref: 931110