Food & Nutrition Dietitian Sr - FT 1st Shift Mt Pleasant

American Addiction Centers•Mount Pleasant, SC

41d•$33 - $50•Hybrid

About The Position

This is a full-time, 1st shift position for a Senior Food & Nutrition Dietitian at Advocate Health's Mt Pleasant location. The role involves directing, planning, and managing clinical nutrition services, collaborating with various healthcare professionals, and serving as the site's nutrition expert. The position requires active participation in regional committees, implementation of new clinical initiatives, and monitoring of clinical documentation for quality indicators. The Senior Dietitian will also develop and implement site-based quality improvement programs, assist in hiring and onboarding staff, and provide training and feedback. A key responsibility includes overseeing Medical Nutrition Therapy for the inpatient census, maximizing team efficiency, and ensuring competency in Nutrition Focused Physical Examinations. The role also coordinates the site's didactic internship program, ensuring it meets or exceeds ACEND standards, and regularly reviews and revises clinical nutrition policies.

Requirements

Dietitian certification issued by the Commission of Dietetic Registration (CDR)
Dietitian (RD) registration with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Licensure by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IL only)
Certification by the Department of Safety and Professional Services (WI only)
Minimum of bachelor’s degree (if CDR registration eligibility is obtained prior to January 1, 2024) or Minimum of Graduate Degree (master’s, practice doctorate, or doctoral) (if initial CDR registration is obtained on or after January 1, 2024)
Successful completion of Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND)-accredited supervised practice program
A minimum of 5 or more years of clinical and/or leadership experience.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Excellent organization, decision-making, time management, and problem-solving skills
Prior experience in leadership activities or role
Advanced knowledge in clinical nutrition and Nutrition Focused Physical Exams

Responsibilities

Directs, plans, and manages the development and implementation of clinical nutrition and operational quality standards for both inpatient and/or outpatient nutrition services.
Collaborates with hospital administration, medical staff, nursing, and other allied health care professionals at both the system and site level.
Serves as the site nutrition expert on all nutrition-related matters.
Actively participates in the Advocate Health Midwest Region Clinical Nutrition Committee (CNC) to design, develop, implement, and evaluate new clinical practices and programs.
Communicates and implements new clinical initiatives.
Provides leadership for all aspects of clinical nutrition care and education.
Effectively implements practices and initiatives to promote the established region standards of clinical excellence.
Routinely monitors clinical dietitian documentation for elements of the Global Malnutrition Composite Score (GMCS) for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Nutrition Electronic Quality Indicators.
Develops site-based nutrition Quality Assessment Performance Improvement (QAPI) efforts to ensure nutrition care is safe and effective for patients.
Develops and implements action plans for any quality indicator not meeting goal.
Ensures department clinical standards comply with safety initiatives, policies, procedures, DNV regulations, and department standards and/or local health department regulations.
Plans, directs and supervises the development, implementation, maintenance and evaluation of a comprehensive nutrition-focused Continuous Quality Improvement program.
Assists in hiring and onboarding a skilled clinical nutrition staff capable of providing essential nutrition care to patients, in compliance with the standards set by the department, hospital, DNV and other regulatory agencies.
Annually evaluates competency of clinical dietitians per system-established competency standards.
Provides training and feedback to clinical dietitians and other Food and Nutrition teammates, as applicable.
Provides input on performance reviews.
Oversees and participates in ongoing Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) care for entire hospital inpatient census, through screening, prioritizing, assessing, and recommending interventions.
Maximizes efficiencies of clinical nutrition team to balance workloads due to fluctuations in census, consults, acuity, staffing challenges.
Ensures competency of clinical nutrition team to perform Nutrition Focused Physical Examinations of high-risk patients to evaluate the loss of specific muscles and subcutaneous body fat to determine the presence of and degree of malnutrition to improve patient outcomes and to positively impact inpatient readmission rates.
Coordinates site didactic internship program with approved partners.
Schedules and onboards dietetic interns.
Completes evaluations and provides coaching to internship participants.
Ensures internship experience provided by the site meets or exceeds clinical competencies as set forth by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND).
Communicates regularly with didactic program coordinator to provide feedback on intern performance.
Reviews and revises clinical nutrition policies and standard works to ensure that they are consistent with current practices.
Updates electronic document system to reflect all changes in a timely manner.