Community Supportive Care Dietitian - Level 3

The vision for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is ‘exceptional care, healthier lives’. SESLHD is committed to enabling our community to be healthy and well, and to providing the best possible compassionate care when people need it.

Plan, coordinate, and implement in-depth levels of clinical expertise and extensive specialised knowledge within Nutrition and Dietetics in order to provide high quality Dietetic care to patients consistent with NSW Health, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) policies, procedures and standards.

This is a rotating position based in the St George Hospital (SGH) Department of Nutrition & Dietetics. The initial allocation will be working with the SGH Community Supportive Care Service. The Dietitian will have responsibility for providing clinical care and care coordination to people living within SESLHD who have end of life and palliative care needs and who are in the last 12-24 months of life. The Dietitian will support these patients through the Community Supportive Care Services (CSCS) model at SGH.

The position will assist with triage of patients to the appropriate community or outpatient services. Once accepted to the CSCS, the Dietitian will provide comprehensive health assessments, therapy, education and support to patients and their families. Within this role, there will be a requirement to undertake clinical reviews across clinic, community and virtual care settings, either alone or in conjunction with a multidisciplinary team. This role will also focus on building the capability of inpatient clinicians by supporting them to identify unmet palliative care and end-of-life needs, promoting early referrals to specialist palliative care services, and acting as a conduit for communication between the ward-based clinician and the palliative care multidisciplinary team (MDT). 

 

Where you’ll be working

 The St George Hospital and Health Services is part of the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District. It is an accredited, principal teaching hospital of the University of New South Wales and is not only the largest hospital within the Local Health District, but is among the leading centres for trauma and emergency management in the State. The hospital’s areas of special expertise also include cancer services, critical care, cardiothoracic surgery, mental health services and women’s and children’s health care.

The hospital is currently undergoing redevelopment and in 2026 will open a brand new Kensington Street Building (KSB), bringing together a range of day only, ambulatory and outpatient services that are currently being delivered from a number of locations around the hospital campus. This will improve accessibility for patients and their carers; particularly for those less mobile or who have chronic health conditions. The KSB will also include three levels of inpatient beds. The St George Hospital Redevelopment will provide staff, patients and carers with a first-class facility, designed to meet the health needs of our community, now and into the future.

 

What you’ll be doing 

The vision for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is ‘exceptional care, healthier lives’. SESLHD is committed to enabling our community to be healthy and well, and to providing the best possible compassionate care when people need it.

Plan, coordinate, and implement in-depth levels of clinical expertise and extensive specialised knowledge within Nutrition and Dietetics in order to provide high quality Dietetic care to patients consistent with NSW Health, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) policies, procedures and standards.

 As a senior dietitian in the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics you will be actively involved in quality improvement, service review, and service development activities. All senior staff are involved in clinical supervision of junior staff and students.

 Benefits: 

 

• Salary packaging options that reduce your taxable income and increase your take-home pay! Up to $9K for living expenses and $2.6K meal & entertainment & Novated Leasing.
• Discounted gym memberships with a Fitness Passport
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for employees and family members.
• Discounted Private Health Insurance.
• For Nurses – Opportunity to apply for Continuing Education allowance based on tertiary qualifications attained where applicable.
• For Nurses – Opportunity to obtain Clinical Nurse Specialist status where relevant.