Senior Dietitian

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.