Nau mai, haere mai ki Te Whatu Ora - Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley District

Location: Ewart Building - Wellington

Service: ORA Wellington Community Team & Wellington Dietitian Team

Contract: Fixed-term Part-Time 1 year, 0.78FTE

Salary: As per MECA 

Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the role. 

Based in the ORA Wellington Community Team and working in the community and in outpatients at Wellington Regional Hospital, this diverse and well-supported role consists of adult clients with a range of conditions. The community caseload includes providing nutritional support (including the management of patients with long term chronic conditions), managing patients on enteral feeds and home parenteral feed and working with patients with malnutrition. The outpatient aspect of the role provides specialist outpatient intervention in secondary care - seeing patients with gastrointestinal disease, malnutrition and severe allergy/immunological conditions.

Mō tō mātou rōpū - About our team

We are looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated Dietitian with at least 3 years post graduate and work experience to join us at the ORA Wellington Community Team at Capital & Coast District Health Board.  This is a fixed-term, part-time position based in Wellington at the Ewart Building.  The Wellington Community Team is an interdisciplinary team of allied health, nursing and medical professionals working together with people aged 16 and above within their own homes and occasionally as outpatients.

Moū - About you

Working with a diverse group of patients with significant health needs, you - ll demonstrate excellent clinical and communication skills and have a flexible, problem solving approach. You will have the ability to quickly build strong working relationships with patients, whānau and the wider multidisciplinary team and have excellent time management and prioritisation skills. We strongly encourage applicants from all backgrounds with the right skills and experience who share our values to apply. We would greatly value seeing more applicants from our Māori and Pacific communities.

As a member of our team of dietitians at Capital & Coast you will be supported with regular professional development opportunities to assist you in meeting your continuing competency requirements, as well as regular clinical supervision

If you are passionate about being the best dietitian you can be, thrive on working in a team setting, and are focussed on putting the patient at the centre of everything you do, then we - d love to hear from you. We expect a commitment to and understanding of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and its application to health, as well as a willingness to work towards improving health outcomes for Māori. 

E pā ana ki a tatou - About us

Here at Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley District we embrace diversity and welcome applications from all people, including all gender identities, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, disability and religions. A workforce that is diverse and inclusive means that we are better positioned to understand and serve our community.

Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley District are pro-equity health organisation, with a particular focus on Māori, Pacific Peoples, and the Disability Community.

To find out more about us click on the following links:

Capital and Coast

Hutt Valley

Mental Health, Addiction and Intellectual Disability Service

Me pēhea te tuku tono - How to apply

Click the apply now button to send your application directly to us. For further information on this role please email recruitment@ccdhb.org.nz and indicate the job title and vacancy number in the subject line.

Your safety and that of our patients is important to us. It is our expectation that you will be fully vaccinated against COVID 19, having received two doses of an approved COVID 19 vaccination.

Ma tini, ma mano, ka rapa te whai

By joining together we will succeed