The Department of Health aims to provide quality health services and ensure a caring climate for service users, implement best-practice health care strategies, create a positive work environment for staff, and provide appropriate and top-quality training for health workers. Our vision is to provide high-quality, efficient and accessible healthcare to transform people's lives. Our mission is to create an effective public healthcare system in Gauteng by ensuring we have the right people, skills, system and equipment to provide the care our patients need to live healthy and quality lives.
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Grade 12 and a B / BSc degree in dietetics with registration as an independent practitioner with HPCSA as a Dietician.
Candidate must be CPD compliant. Level would be dependent on verifiable experience for OSD purposes. No experience needed after registration with the Health Professional Council of South Africa (HPCSA). One-year relevant experience after registration with HPCSA as dietician in respect of foreign qualified candidates, of whom it is not required to perform Community Service, as required in South Africa.
Duties :
To implement anthropometric and other measurements in assessment of patients and the introduction of a nutrition risk screening tool to ensure appropriate referral to dietitian. To provide dietetic advice and plan nutritional care for individual or groups of patients to meet their specific nutritional requirements.
To implement nutritional care plans for individual or groups of patients to contribute to the patient’s general health care. To evaluate the effects of nutrition care intervention on individual or groups of patients’ nutrition status to determine the efficiency of the nutritional care plan and adapt if necessary.
To provide evidence-based nutrition education for patients to implement nutrition principles. Monitor patient compliance and give appropriate counselling. To attend scheduled ward rounds and meetings.
To refer patients to appropriate level of care. To communicate with relevant stakeholders regarding patient treatment. To implement Quality Assurance measures in area of work to ensure maintenance of, and where possible improve, standards of patient care. To audit standards and implement corrective measures. To apply Batho Pele principles.
To liaise with all the members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the nutritional needs of inpatients and outpatients are met.
To contribute to the delivery of training and advise to other occupational classes.
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