Complex Care Clinical Dietitian

Nationwide Children's Hospital • Columbus, OH

14d • Onsite

About The Position

Full-time Complex Care Clinical Dietitian. Monday through Friday Interdisciplinary Clinic. Includes a weekend and holiday on-call rotation. The Complex Health Care Program (CHC) follows children with medical complexity. This includes children who have neurologic problems that result in loss of function and physical disability and have serious chronic problems involving at least three organ systems and are medically fragile as defined by using a lot of health care resources - they have frequent unplanned hospital admissions or have a high number of Emergency Room or specialty care visits. Often they depend on technology such as feeding tubes and tracheostomies. Promotes preventive health for nutrition using research, advocacy, and public health initiatives. Provides Medical Nutrition Therapy in direct care of medical diseases and conditions across the continuum of care.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Nutrition, required.
• Licensed as a Registered Dietitian in the State of Ohio, required.
• Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) registration, and licensure to practice as a dietitian from the Ohio Board of Dietetics; OR – licensed permit with completion and passing of the RD exam within 3 months of employment.
• Analytical and organizational skills.
• Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience as a clinical registered & licensed dietitian, preferred.
• Clinical pediatric experience, preferred.

Responsibilities

• Applies the Nutrition Care Process and workflow elements in providing person-centered nutrition care of patients.
• Provides education on healthy nutrition, obesity and disease prevention, as well as other topics.
• Coordinates programs and projects in schools, the community and hospital (internal and external programs and projects), representing Nationwide Children’s Hospital and developing strong community partnerships.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level