Careers search

Start Your Professional Journey - Dietitian Role!

Join SA Health's prestigious Annual Intake programme for a 2025 trained AHP1 Dietitian at Flinders Medical Centre, delivering evidence-based nutrition care across diverse clinical settings. This full-time contract position offers structured mentorship and professional development in one of South Australia's leading tertiary hospitals. Make a meaningful impact on patient outcomes while building your expertise in acute care within our supportive multidisciplinary environment. To give newly trained dietitians an opportunity to consolidate their practices one to two years. The dietitian will provide a nutrition & dietetic service to inpatients and outpatients of FMC/NHS and provide dietetic assessment for patients screened to be at risk nutritionally to assist in timely discharges and reduce length of stay.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Manager, this role is responsible for all aspects of nutritional care of patients in assigned units. This includes dietetic assessment & diagnosis, consultation, intervention and review, and education. It also involves liaison with community agencies, organisation of appropriate resources, and management of discharge. All dietary advice is tailored to the individual.  Clinical judgement is needed in assessing treatment priorities and formulating a nutritional care plan, taking into account the complexity of physiological, sociological and psychological factors

Duties for the role will include:

• Providing appropriate and effective dietetic management with regard to assessing, dietetic diagnosing, planning, implementing and evaluating a nutritional care program which is integrated into total patient management,
• Being responsible for the organisation of therapeutic diets, nutritional supplementation and/or enteral feeding following procedures and protocols established by the senior foodservice dietitian,
• Communicating with medical, nursing, allied health and catering staff, regarding patient care,
• being responsible for the nutrition/dietetic counselling on an individual or group basis of inpatients, outpatients and other relevant groups,
• Participating in ward rounds, meetings and conferences to integrate nutritional care into total patient care,
• following a program of continuing education and self-development by actively participating in staff development courses, in-service education programs, professional meetings etc

About you:

• Appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification attained in 2025 which gives eligibility for full membership of the Dietitians Australia (DA),
• Clear aptitude for working in a healthcare setting and with people from a variety of cultural and linguistically diverse backgrounds,
• Demonstrated experience in the provision of nutritional assessment, care, counselling and education,
• Experience in the delivery of nutrition support to patients in an acute care setting,
• Demonstrated experience to reflect and evaluate own performance and to act on this

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Megan Satanek, Director of Nutrition & Dietetics, (08) 8204 5182, Megan.Satanek@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Sunday 5 October 2025

Attachments:

• AHP1 Dietitian Role Description
• Australian applicant guidelines

Applicant Information:

• We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Click here to find out more about salary packaging.
• The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
• Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and Immunisation compliance as indicated on the Role description.
• SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.  Job ref: 917033