Dietitian

Encompass Health • Vero Beach, FL

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About The Position

Encompass Health is seeking a Dietitian to promote patient health and wellness through personalized nutrition care. The role involves assessing patients’ nutritional needs, developing and implementing dietary plans, educating patients about healthy eating, instructing them on post-discharge diets, and monitoring their nutritional status. The Dietitian also communicates with patients, physicians, and other members of the care team; documents nutrition-related information; adapts menus to patients’ needs; and evaluates the nutritional adequacy of menus and nutrition intake methods.

Requirements

• Registration by the Commission on Dietetic Registration of the American Dietetic Association.
• State licensure is required.
• A bachelor’s or advanced degree from an accredited institution, with a major in Food & Nutrition.

Nice To Haves

• Membership in the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
• One year of clinical dietetics experience.

Responsibilities

• Communicate with and counsel patients according to physician orders and diet instructions.
• Communicate with physicians and other disciplines involved in patient care.
• Evaluate referral orders to determine whether nutrition intake methods are adequate.
• Document pertinent information in patients’ medical records according to established standards.
• Implement nutritional care plans, adapt menus, and assist patients with special dietary needs.
• Conduct calorie counts and make appropriate recommendations.
• Review, revise, and sign off on menus for nutritional adequacy.
• Educate patients on healthy eating habits and post-discharge diets.
• Monitor patients’ nutritional status.

Benefits

• Affordable medical, dental, and vision plans for full-time and part-time employees and their families.
• Paid time off that accrues over time.
• Tuition reimbursement and continuing education opportunities.
• Company-matching 401(k).
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time