Dietitian

Providence • Medford, OR

8d • Onsite

About The Position

Dietitian - Inpatient Care at Providence Medford Medical Center 0.6 FTE, Day shift Join our team at Providence and play a vital role in enhancing patient health and recovery through optimal nutrition. As a Registered Dietitian, you'll leverage your clinical expertise to conduct thorough nutrition assessments, provide education, and implement interventions aimed at improving patient outcomes. If you're passionate about patient care and thrive in a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment, we encourage you to explore this opportunity with us. Join us in our mission to make lives better through compassionate and expert nutrition care. Potential growth opportunities to advance to a Sr. Dietitian in this department The Dietitian works closely with the departmental and interdisciplinary health care team to provide inpatient care that is integrated and compatible with patient-centered medical goals and objectives. Utilizes the Nutrition Care Process and Terminology (NCPT) to assess nutrition status, identify nutrition diagnoses, performs nutrition-focused physical examination, interprets results and makes nutrition diagnoses, orders nutrition and diet orders, designs and implement nutrition care plans and evaluate outcomes of nutrition care plans for patients who are at nutrition risk or malnourished. Provides medical nutrition therapy and professional nutrition counseling methods to patients, families and the community. Providence caregivers are not simply valued – they’re invaluable. Join our team at Providence Medford Medical Center and thrive in our culture of patient-focused, whole-person care built on understanding, commitment, and mutual respect. Your voice matters here, because we know that to inspire and retain the best people, we must empower them.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree Dietetics, foods and nutrition or related area granted by a U.S. regionally accredited college or university, or foreign equivalent. Master's degree is only required for those entering the workforce after 1/1/2024 as a Dietitian.
• Coursework/Training Completion of required dietetics coursework and supervised practice through a Didactic Program in Dietetics and Dietetic Internship or Coordinated Program in Dietetics accredited by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND) of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
• Upon hire: National CDR Registered Dietitian - Commission on Dietetic Registration
• Within 6 months (180 days) of hire Oregon Dietitian License
• Within 6 months (180 days) of hire Dietitian license in state of hire AND wherever care is delivered.
• 1 year experience with current adult learning theory in relation to nutrition education.
• 1 year experience with nutrition management of multiple disease states.

Nice To Haves

• 1 year experience with managing nutrition in a clinical setting.
• 1 year experience providing medical nutrition therapy.

Benefits

• Our best-in-class benefits are uniquely designed to support you and your family in staying well, growing professionally, and achieving financial security.
• We take care of you, so you can focus on delivering our Mission of caring for everyone, especially the most vulnerable in our communities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees