Registered Dietician: Community Health
About The Position
Hoag’s Community Health Dietitian combines nutrition expertise with health and wellness coaching skills to support meaningful, sustainable behavior change. The Dietitian uses empathy, education, and effective communication to empower clients to improve their health and well-being. The Dietitian manages an assigned client caseload and provides individualized nutrition and wellness support through in-person, virtual (Zoom or Microsoft Teams), and telephone encounters. The role also develops and facilitates group nutrition education classes and other health and wellness programming for individuals and community groups. As a member of the interdisciplinary Community Health Department, the Dietitian collaborates with Community Health staff to address client needs and barriers to care. The Dietitian supports clients in establishing realistic health and wellness goals, developing personalized action plans, and building the knowledge, skills, confidence, and resources needed to achieve and sustain behavior change.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field such as Psychology, Nutrition, or Exercise.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, written and oral, demonstrated through customer service in person or electronically.
- Experience working with underserved, underinsured communities.
- Bilingual Spanish skills.
- Registered Dietitian (RD) license.
- BLS - AHA Basic Life or ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) certification.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in a related field such as Psychology, Nutrition (Dietetics), or Exercise.
- Experience in Behavioral Coaching.
Responsibilities
- Provide individualized nutrition assessment, education, counseling, and nutrition care planning within scope of practice, using a culturally sensitive approach tailored to the population served.
- Develop individualized client action plans with measurable goals and outcome objectives; monitor and document outcomes; and provide ongoing accountability, encouragement, education, and support through in-person, virtual, and telephone interactions.
- Support clients in preventing and managing chronic conditions through evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle interventions.
- Develop, implement, and facilitate group nutrition education classes.
- Create and maintain nutrition and wellness content, including self-guided education and action plans, to support clients between coaching sessions.
- Identify when client needs are outside the scope of the program and facilitate referrals to medical providers, behavioral health professionals, specialists, social services, community resources, or a higher level of nutrition care.
- Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of Community Health nutrition and wellness programming.
- Participate in Hoag’s Community Health Department community events as appropriate.
- Collaborate with Community Health staff to address client needs and barriers to care.
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Job Type
Full-time
