Employment Type: Temporary Part Time 16 hours per week until 26/06/2023
Location: Stanley Street, Bankstown
Position Classification: Dietitian Level 3
Remuneration: $51.69 - $53.43 per hour
Requisition ID: REQ333976
Application Close Date: 28/08/2022

Are you hardworking, enthusiastic and dedicated to improving health outcomes in the community?

About The Opportunity:

South Western Sydney Local Health District is seeking a forward thinking, innovative and dedicated Nutritionist to join the current Health Promotion team.

In this role, you will use your specialist knowledge of current population health nutrition issues to plan, implement and evaluate public health nutrition initiatives across a large health district. You will use your experience in evidence-based practice to implement programs and initiatives in community-based settings, working particularly with diverse communities. You will also work collaboratively with health services, government, non-government and community organisations to improve the quality and reach of health promotion initiatives. You will use your excellent organisational skills to work with minimal supervision, and use your high-level communication skills to collaborate across teams, prepare written reports and maintain positive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Life at South Western Sydney Local Health District is rewarding, progressive and diverse and is always focused on achieving our Vision of Leading Care, Healthier Communities.

What you'll be doing:

The Nutritionist will primarily work with the Healthy Populations and Healthy Environments streams to develop and implement evidence-based and/or innovative policy and programs designed to:

• Promote healthy weight in children 0 -18 years.
• Reduce overweight and obesity in the general population
• Build healthy food environments

The Nutritionist may also work on projects from the Close the Gap stream as required.

Where You'll Be Working:

South Western Sydney (SWS) is an exciting, interesting and dynamic place to live and work. SWS is home to a mixture of metropolitan and rural communities which is culturally diverse with a very significant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community.

South Western Sydney Local Health District’s (SWSLHD) vision is to promote the health of the residents of the District using our health services through the delivery of high quality patient-centred health care. Transforming Your Experience is SWSLHD’s key strategy to positively transform how our patients, consumers, staff and communities experience our organisation and services. Our vision is that our care is always safe, high quality and personalised and all our staff are supported and empowered to achieve their full potential. This strategy provides us with a clear direction for working together to deliver safe and high quality health services and build the health of our communities – now and into the future.

At South Western Sydney Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don’t just accept differences but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background and people with a disability to apply.