Tracelyn Kelly
Mount Sheridan, Cairns,QLD
Summary
Experienced Dietetic assistant with many years of experience helping patients. Highly skilled at care planning, nutrition assessments, and personalized service. Diligent in working one-on-one with patients to understand individual needs. Focused on basing dietary suggestions on nutritional needs, dietary restrictions, and health factors. Detail-oriented with taking requests and health information from patients to create useful dietary information to pass on to dietitians. Excel using empathy, communication, and problem-solving to enhance patient satisfaction and achieve health objectives. Highly-motivated with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills. Hardworking employee with customer service, multitasking, and time management abilities. Devoted to giving every customer a positive and memorable experience.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Dietitian Assistant
Queensland Health
CAIRNS, QLD
11.2016 - Current
- Engage with patients to provide positive and enriching experiences.
- Actively contribute to team meetings and projects.
- Work closely with Food Services to ensure the safe and accurate provision of meals to patients.
- Observe and monitor patients' food intake and body weight, and report changes to a dietitian.
- Manage inventory control activities by ordering, stocking, and rotating products.
- Screened patients for malnutrition risk and referred them to dietitians when necessary.
- Ensure accurate documentation of all dietary services provided by completing forms accurately.
- Assist with the development of menus based on dietary guidelines and client preferences.
- Collaborate with healthcare professionals in order to ensure proper nutrition for all patients.
- Treated patients and team members with dignity and respect.
- Report and document patient's changes in consumption or behaviors.
- Follow dietary procedures in accordance with established policies.
Education
TTL - Transition To Leadership Course
Cairns Hospital
08-2024
Certificate IV - Allied Health in Nurtrition And Deitetic Assistand
T.A.F.E Queensland
ON Line10-2022
Certificate III - Children Services
T.A.F.E Queensland
Cairns, QLD09-2005
High School Diploma -
Trininty Bay Hight School
Cairns12-1986
Skills
- Customer Service
- Clinical Documentation
- Computer Skills
- Hygiene standards
- Verbal Communication
- Dietary guidelines
- Workload Management
- Team Collaboration
- Time Management
- Food Safety
- Patient Communication
- Food handling safety
Affiliations
- Camping
- Reading
- Family
- Movies
- Music
- Gardening
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Dietitian Assistant
Queensland Health
11.2016 - Current
TTL - Transition To Leadership Course
Cairns Hospital
Certificate IV - Allied Health in Nurtrition And Deitetic Assistand
T.A.F.E Queensland
Certificate III - Children Services
T.A.F.E Queensland
High School Diploma -
Trininty Bay Hight School
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