Dietitian

Encompass Health • Woburn, MA

21d

About The Position

The Dietitian promotes health and wellness by assessing patients’ nutritional needs, developing and implementing dietary plans, and educating patients about healthy eating. The role includes instructing patients on post-discharge diets and monitoring nutritional status. The Dietitian communicates with and counsels patients according to physician orders and diet instructions, collaborates with physicians and other care disciplines, and helps ensure patients’ nutrition needs are met through appropriate care planning and menus.

Requirements

• Registration by the Commission on Dietetic Registration of the American Dietetic Association.
• State licensure is required.
• 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 the adequacy of nutrition intake methods.
• 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.
• Assess patients’ nutritional needs, develop dietary plans, provide healthy-eating education, instruct patients on post-discharge diets, and monitor 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