The posting
Reporting to the Principal Dietitian, you will be responsible for providing quality nutrition and dietetic service to patients residing in the community.
Responsibilities:
- Provides evidence-based nutrition assessment, diagnosis, intervention, monitoring and evaluation for patients with routine and complex conditions, including multi-morbidities.
- Acts as a resource person in specialised areas of dietetics practice.
- Conducts nutrition counselling and education for patients, caregivers and groups using a patient-centred approach.
- Reviews nutrition progress and documents nutritional management accurately and promptly.
- Participates in multidisciplinary ward rounds and care planning.
- Supervises, mentors and supports junior dietitians and dietetic students.
- Contributes to implementation of clinical governance and risk management frameworks.
- Develops and reviews patient education materials, resources and work processes.
- Reviews literature and translates current evidence into clinical practice.
- Leads or supports research, quality improvement and service improvement initiatives
- Plans, conducts and evaluates nutrition talks, workshops and educational programmes.
- Participates in development of clinical practice guidelines, workflows, work instructions and departmental education activities.
- Supports implementation and evaluation of service innovations, digital-health initiatives and technology-enabled models of care.
- Participates in departmental meetings and operational activities.
- Manages patient feedback, stakeholder concerns and service recovery activities.
- Undertakes administrative and clinical duties as assigned.
Essential Qualification Required and Area of Discipline
- Recognised Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition and Dietetics OR
- Recognised Master’s degree in Nutrition and Dietetics OR
- Recognised Postgraduate Diploma in Dietetics
- Completion of recognised clinical dietetics internship
- At least 5 years of experience in clinical dietetics preferred
Required Competencies and Capabilities (Skills, Experiences and Professional Licences) Clinical and Professional Practice
- Independently performs age- and developmentally appropriate nutrition assessment for infants, children and adolescents, integrating growth trends, anthropometry, dietary intake, clinical status and relevant biochemical data.
- Interprets paediatric growth patterns and identifies faltering growth, malnutrition, overweight and obesity, with timely escalation of clinical concerns.
- Calculates and individualises energy, protein, fluid, micronutrient and feeding requirements across developmental stages and for complex paediatric conditions.
- Develops, implements and evaluates oral, enteral and parenteral nutrition plans, including appropriate formula selection, feed concentration, advancement, tolerance monitoring and transition of feeding routes.
- Provides evidence-based management for paediatric feeding difficulties, food allergy and intolerance, selective eating and therapeutic diets, in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.
- Engages children, parents and caregivers using family-centred, culturally appropriate and developmentally suitable education, counselling and shared decision-making.
- Recognises nutrition-related safeguarding concerns, feeding risk and clinical deterioration, and escalates promptly in accordance with institutional policies and professional responsibilities.
- Coordinates nutrition care across inpatient, outpatient and community settings to support safe discharge, continuity of care and appropriate follow-up.
- Evaluates emerging evidence and practice trends for local implementation.
- Coaches others in complex clinical reasoning and patient management.
- Supports adoption of digital and technology-enabled models of care.
- Applies population-health and integrated-care perspectives to service delivery.
Educational and Clinical Support
- Provides formal clinical supervision and mentorship.
- Conducts competency assessment and developmental coaching.
- Leads departmental education initiatives.
- Develops training resources and learning pathways.
- Supports capability development in emerging clinical and digital competencies.
- Evaluates effectiveness of learning and competency programmes.
Strategy, Service and Programme Leadership
- Provides clinical leadership, supervision and competency development for staff managing paediatric nutrition cases, and contributes to paediatric protocols, audits and service improvement.
- Able to lead section-level quality, service and workforce initiatives.
- Contributes to development of clinical guidelines, workflows and service models.
- Supports implementation of strategic programmes.
- Identifies opportunities for service redesign and care integration.
- Leads adoption of innovations within assigned clinical areas.
- Uses programme and service data to guide decision-making.
Quality and Service Improvement, Safety and Research
- Assists in leading research, quality improvement and programme-evaluation activities.
- Supports implementation of clinical governance frameworks.
- Uses data analytics and outcome measures to identify trends and risks.
- Leads root-cause analyses and improvement actions following incidents.
- Translates evidence into policies, workflows and educational initiatives.
Digital, data and responsible innovation
- Supports implementation of approved digital-care and data-enabled workflows within the specialty area.
- Uses clinical, operational and service data to inform quality improvement and service development activities.
- Guides junior staff in the responsible use of digital tools, artificial intelligence and automation.
- Evaluates the clinical applicability and operational impact of digital solutions in day-to-day practice.
- Contributes to development and refinement of digital workflows, resources and implementation processes.
- Identifies risks related to data quality, privacy, safety and usability and escalates appropriately.
Communication and Stakeholder Management
- Strong written, verbal and interpersonal communication.
- Provides clinical leadership within multidisciplinary teams.
- Influences stakeholders to achieve shared service objectives.
- Leads service recovery and conflict resolution within scope.
- Facilitates interdepartmental collaboration.
- Communicates quality, safety and performance findings effectively.
- Supports change-management activities.
Professional Requirements
- Demonstrates advanced practice capability within assigned specialty.
- Serves as a role model for professional standards and clinical excellence.
- Maintains competency in supervision, education and governance activities.
- Demonstrates change leadership and innovation capability.
- Promotes workforce wellbeing, resilience and continuous learning.
