Build your career in nutrition and healthcare while making a genuine difference in Toowoomba. As a Nutrition and Dietetics Assistant, you’ll support patients across hospital and outpatient settings, working closely with dietitians and multidisciplinary teams to improve nutrition care, recovery and wellbeing across the community.
What Your Day Could Look Like
As a Nutrition and Dietetics Assistant, you'll play an important role in supporting patients to receive safe, timely and person‑centred nutrition care. From assisting with nutrition screening to contributing to service improvements, your work helps patients feel supported while strengthening the outcomes of the broader care team.
Every Day, You'll Contribute By
- Supporting nutrition assessments and interventions under dietitian guidance to improve patient wellbeing
- Working collaboratively with dietitians, nurses, food services and allied health teams to deliver seamless care
- Maintaining accurate records and contributing to quality, safety and nutrition standards
- Sharing ideas, insights and feedback that improve services and patient experiences
Let's Talk About You
You're someone who brings care, reliability and pride to everything you do. You value teamwork, understand your scope, and take confidence from supporting others to deliver their best work. You're motivated by helping patients feel heard, nourished and supported, and you find purpose in knowing your contribution matters each day.
Here's What Will Help You Thrive In This Role
- Experience supporting nutrition, dietetic or allied health services under supervision
- Strong communication skills and confidence working with patients and multidisciplinary teams
- The ability to organise your workload, follow processes and adapt in a busy environment
- A commitment to learning, quality improvement and safe, ethical practice
You'll stand out from the crowd if you have allied health assistant training, nutrition‑related study, or experience in hospital or community health settings.
Above all, you'll bring compassion, integrity, dignity, innovation and courage—helping deliver nutrition care that truly supports people and community wellbeing.
This role makes a meaningful difference to patient recovery while strengthening trusted care across the region.
Why Join Darling Downs Health?
At Darling Downs Health, we care for over 300,000 people across our expansive region. No matter where you live in our region, from Taroom in the north to Texas in the south, our purpose is to ensure accessible and sustainable care. It's complex, challenging work that makes a real difference – and the career possibilities are endless.
Whether you're a doctor, nurse, allied health professional, facilities team member, or administrator, you'll see your impact firsthand. Here, you'll find opportunities that simply don't exist elsewhere: the chance to lead initiatives, develop specialties, and embrace responsibilities that would take years to access in larger health services.
Darling Downs Health is where you can step up sooner, grow faster, and help shape the future of care across our region.
Your career at Darling Downs Health also comes with meaningful rewards:
- Maximise your take‑home pay with salary packaging and generous leave entitlements
- Enjoy flexible work arrangements that support balance and variety
- Access professional development funding, study leave and clear career pathways
- Be part of a diverse and inclusive culture that values learning and collaboration.
- Take care of your wellbeing with EAP access, private health insurance discounts and the Fitness Passport.
For a full list of benefits, visit: Darling Downs Health Benefits
Your future is here. Where are you?
If you're ready to make a meaningful impact and grow your career in a place that values people and purpose, we'd love to hear from you.
Click “Apply Now” to submit your application and upload the requested documents.
Find out more about us!
Visit our careers site to learn more about working with Darling Downs Health:
www.health.qld.gov.au/darlingdowns
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