Dietetics - Community

Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, the community dietitian’s role is:

• home enteral nutrition monitoring including transition to oral feeding
• monitoring ‘failure to thrive’ in adults who have unintentional weight loss
• providing advice and support to people with terminal/ palliative conditions, where that service cannot be provided by other health professionals
• home visiting clients at nutritional risk who are unable to attend an outpatient clinic because of their medical condition

Locations

• Te Whare Karaka
  Ph (09) 486 8945 ext 43222
  Monday -Thursday: 8.00am - 4.30pm

• Waitakere Hospital
  Ph (09) 486 8945 ext 43222 
  Monday - Friday: 8.30am - 5.00pm
• Hibiscus Coast Community Health Centre
  Ph (09) 486 8945 ext 43222 
  Monday and Friday: 8.30am - 5.00pm
  Wednesday: 8.30am - 12.00pm