Dietician
- Central RegionContract: Permanent, Part Time (0.7 FTE / 28 hours per week)Please note that this role is only available for current Health New Zealand / Te Whatu Ora staff.
- Te Whatu Ora applications will be declined.
Through integration and collaboration, we
- re building a health system underpinned by partnership, equity, sustainability, whānau-centred care, and excellence.
About the Role The Critical Care Expansion Programme has committed funding to support and increase Allied Professions workforce capacity and capability within critical care settings by funding Educators for Allied Professions within the Central Region.
This role will provide support to Dietitians working in critical care across the Central Region, to extend skills and knowledge working with patients and their whānau.About the Team/Service Location The Allied Professions Critical Care Educator team works across the Central region, supporting clinicians working in critical care across all 6 of the Hospital sites.
Educators work primarily to support the upskilling and capability building of clinicians in their own profession, but also provide interdisciplinary teaching to other allied, nursing, and medical colleagues as required.
About you You will be an experienced Dietitian, with a current annual practicing certificate and a minimum of 5 years
- experience.
- development through a variety of teaching and training approaches.
You will have outstanding communication skills and a solid understanding of clinical education.
You will work alongside central region Dietitians and their professional leadership, to develop a workplan that advances Dietetic practice in critical care.You will also work alongside the Allied Professions educator team centrally, and with other Dietetic educators nationally, to ensure strategic alignment and cohesion of workplans, and to define and record data metrics and reporting to support this programme of work.
You will have strong relationship building skills and will work collaboratively with both the allied professions educator team, as well as nursing educators and medical colleagues to identify opportunities for collaboration.You will be cognizant of the importance of equity for patients, whānau and for your team.
You will be expected to travel regularly to support ongoing relationships and learning across the region.
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- . We're dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Our people are at the heart of everything we do.
Health New Zealand are committed to being good employers and honouring our equal employment opportunity obligations.We embrace diversity and welcome application from all people, including all gender identities, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and disability.
A workforce that is diverse and inclusive means that we are better positioned to understand and service our community.
We are pro-equity health organisation, with a particular focus on Māori, Pacific Peoples, and the Disability Community.
How to Apply To apply please click- apply now.
- All applications must be submitted through our online careers
- portal by 22 June.
If you have any questions about the role, please contact Philip.Adamson@tewhatuora.govt.nz We will review applications as received and may proceed with the recruitment process, before the closing date of this advertisement.