Dietitian / Mātanga Mātai Kai (Te Korowai Whariki)

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

**Location**: Porirua

**Service**: Mental Health, Addictions & Intellectual Disability Service (MHAIDS)

**Contract**: Permanent, Full time

**Salary**: As per MECA

**Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the role**

Our Regional Forensic & Rehabilitation & Intellectual Disability Service are wanting a Dietitian, with demonstrated in-depth knowledge and skills to enable management of complex presentations.

This role will be in Purehurehu, Rangipapa, Tane Mahuta, Tawhirimatea, Haumietiketike, ID Cottages, Hikitia Te Wairua and Nga Taiohi units and will include group education, individual consultation and nutrition care planning, and outpatient services. This role will to determine their nutrition knowledge and skills and scope what teaching and education is required for both staff and clients and food service.

**Mō tō mātou rōpū - About our team**

Tane Mahuta at Ratonga Rua O Porirua is part of the Mental Health Addiction and Intellectual Disability Service, MHAIDS 3 DHB which covers the central region from Tairawhiti on the East Coast across to Wanganui and south to Wellington and Wairarapa. It encompasses Central Regional Forensic inpatient and community services, Youth Forensic Service, Inpatient Rehabilitation and Extended Care Services, and Intellectual Disability Services. Located about 20 minutes away from central Wellington, in Porirua, the Regional Rehabilitation units provide consumers with specialised care with a focus on recovery and rehabilitation in both secure and open settings.

**Moū - About you**

Duties
- Provide safe and clinically effective client assessment and treatment
- Work with and alongside other health professionals
- To build a healthy eating environment on the Ratonga Rua o-Porirua and Kenepuru campus
- Be responsible for providing clinical leadership for less experienced practitioners and team members, therefore assisting in developing the clinical capability of others
- Provide dietetic services to long-term clients with mental health and/or intellectual disability conditions in a hospital setting on the Kenepuru-Porirua Campus.

This role will be in Purehurehu, Rangipapa, Tane Mahuta, Tawhirimatea, Haumietiketike, ID Cottages, Hikitia Te Wairua and Nga Taiohi units and will include group education, individual consultation and nutrition care planning, and outpatient services. This role will to determine their nutrition knowledge and skills and scope what teaching and education is required for both staff and clients and food service.

Skills & experience
- NZ Registered Dietitian with current annual practicing certificate (with prescribing endorsement)
- Member of Dietitians New Zealand - Professional Association (desirable)
- At least 2 years - experience of working as a Dietitian in an acute hospital or community setting
- Experience of working with people with Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes
- Experience of working with different cultures and knowledge of traditional foods

**E pā ana ki a tatou - About us**

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**
- 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