Company: Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation
Salary: $72,700 - $105,300 gross per annum plus superannuation (depending on qualification and years of experience).
- Temporary accommodation, up to 6 weeks + Relocation assistance to help you get to Broken Hill.
- Working Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5.00pm only + 5 weeks paid annual leave per year + Accrued Days Off
- Home base travel allowance to keep in touch with your family - $600 allowance on completion of each 6 months of service for 2 years.
Summary: Develop in our supportive team working 40 hours a week only, delivering clinical dietetic, preventive health and nutrition interventions for the management of chronic disease.
About Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation
Maari Ma Health is an Aboriginal community-controlled regional health service that has been providing a quality service to the Aboriginal people of far western New South Wales for more than 20 years and employs over 140 people within the region.
About the role
You will join our dynamic multidisciplinary team and lead our nutrition and health promotion programs. This involves conducting local and outreach services in a wide range of settings, including schools, our Early Years groups and in communities in the Far West region of NSW (Wilcannia, Menindee, Balranald and Ivanhoe). The role has a strong emphasis on education and prevention as part of our Chronic Disease Strategy.
The Dietitian is responsible for delivering clinical dietetic, preventive health and nutrition interventions for the management of chronic disease. The position is also responsible for delivering health promotion activities with an emphasis on illness prevention, through community wide and group-based activities. The clinical responsibilities are primarily focused on supporting Maari Ma’s Keeping Well Chronic Disease team around metabolic obesity referrals; however, the position may also receive some other adult and children’s referrals.
For experienced Dietitians, the workload may be organised into approximately 50% health promotion and 50% clinical. For new graduate Dietitian, the workload is approximately 30% health promotion and 70% clinical which will provide a new grad the opportunity to consolidate their clinical skills, with some flexibility at the margins depending on current priorities and workloads.
Regular travel within the Maari Ma region is a requirement of the position with occasional overnight stays.
Skills and experience
- Degree or equivalent in Nutrition and Dietetics, full membership of the Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA).
- A sound understanding of the Closing the Gap strategy and how it relates to the role.
- Demonstrated ability to provide individual nutrition management of clients.
- Demonstrated understanding of the issues in delivering dietetic services to different age groups across the life span.
- Ability to work with Aboriginal staff and communities in a way that fosters mutual respect.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Computing skills relevant to the position and competent in the use of information and communication technology including Microsoft Word, email and internet applications and the ability to quickly acquire skills in other applications.
- Demonstrated minimum two years post graduate experience working as a Dietitian.
- Demonstrated experience working independently in a clinical role to manage a client caseload.
The Location:
We are proud to work on Paakintji country. The Oasis of the Outback, Broken Hill is a living, breathing time capsule where the great mining prosperity of yesteryear blends seamlessly with a rising modern art scene, all set amid a sprawling desert landscape. It is a place of huge skies, rocky red earth, and a fascinating and internationally significant history. This historic town is great for all ages and has several day-cares, primary schools, high schools, and TAFE. Beyond Broken Hill and on your doorstep, you can discover spectacular and culturally significant national parks, lush rivers and lakes, abundant wildlife, and other classic towns of outback New South Wales and beyond. Broken Hill has an airport servicing both Qantas and Rex with two-three flights a day from Sydney and Adelaide and is only a 5-hour drive from Adelaide.
How to apply
If this sounds like you then we want to hear from you! Simply click on “Working with us” page of our website. and follow the prompts. We will get in touch if you are shortlisted for this opportunity.
If you would like to learn more, please reach out to Claire Allan on +61 447 807 183 for a confidential chat.
All Maari Ma Aboriginal Health employees are required to have two doses of a COVID-19 vaccination or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are encouraged to apply for this position.
Maari Ma acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land in which we live, and we pay our respect to their Elders both past and present and emerging.
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