Dietician
About The Position
The Dietician serves as an expert in using food and nutrition to promote health and manage disease. The role assesses nutritional needs, dietary restrictions, and current health plans; develops and implements dietary-care plans; and provides nutritional counseling to patients and groups. The Dietician works with physicians, other health care personnel, patients, and families to determine and support appropriate nutrition plans. The position also reviews and approves patient menus, nutritional supplements, facility menus, and the facility diet manual. It monitors food service operations as needed for nutritional, safety, sanitation, and quality standards, and performs other functions and tasks as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in Dietetics, Nutrition, or a similar field acceptable for licensure.
- Current registered dietician, registration as required by the state, or eligibility for endorsement by the state in which the facility provides services.
- ServSafe certification or similar food safety certification where required by the state or facility.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with eating disorders and substance use is strongly preferred in facilities serving those patient populations.
Responsibilities
- Assess nutritional needs, diet restrictions, and current health plans to develop and implement dietary-care plans and provide nutritional counseling.
- Approve patient menus and nutritional supplements.
- Advise patients and their families on nutritional principles, dietary plans, diet modifications, and food selection and preparation.
- Provide nutritional assessments in accordance with facility policy and regulation.
- Review and approve menus developed by the facility.
- Counsel individuals and groups on basic rules of good nutrition, healthy eating habits, and nutrition monitoring to improve quality of life.
- Consult with physicians and health care personnel to determine patients’ nutritional needs and diet restrictions.
- Participate in treatment teams as appropriate.
- Review and approve the facility diet manual annually in conjunction with medical staff.
- Speak to groups about diet, nutrition, and the relationship between good eating habits and preventing or managing specific diseases.
- Monitor food service operations as needed to ensure conformance to nutritional, safety, sanitation, and quality standards.
- Perform other functions and tasks as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
