Registered Dietician

Optalis•Riverview, MI

39d

About The Position

Responsible for core duties of the Registered Dietician role within the organization. This includes participating in conferences, providing technical guidance on diet planning and menu formulation, ensuring menus meet nutritional needs and physician orders, interviewing residents for diet history, maintaining records of food preferences, and confirming informative progress notes. The role also involves evaluating meal quality, monitoring weights, collaborating with nursing, and ensuring appropriate meals are served to residents with special dietary needs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Dietetics, Nutrition, or related field required.
Current registration with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) required.
Must meet state licensure requirements for a Dietitian (if applicable).
Computer skills are required.
Meets all state and federal criminal background check requirements.

Nice To Haves

Minimum of one (1) year experience as a Dietician in a healthcare or skilled nursing setting preferred.
One (1) to two (2) years management/supervisory experience preferred.
Knowledge of MDS, care planning, and clinical documentation standards.
Knowledge of applicable federal and state regulations governing dietary and nutritional services.

Responsibilities

Participates in regularly scheduled conferences including department head meetings, Resident at Risk meetings and interdisciplinary care plan meetings.
Provides technical guidance and administrative direction over diet planning, menu formulation, preparation and service of regular and therapeutic diets.
Ensures menus meet resident nutritional needs, preferences, and follow physician orders and regulatory guidelines.
Interviews residents or family members, as necessary, to obtain diet history.
Maintains records of the resident’s food likes and dislikes.
Confirms that charted nutritional progress notes are informative and descriptive of the services provided and of the resident’s response to the service.
Visits residents periodically to evaluate quality of meals served, likes and dislikes, etc.
Provides timely and accurate completion of nutritional portion of MDS, CAA, Resident Care Planning, and Progress Notes as well as Nutritional Assessment, Nutritional Data Card, Diet Card and other requirements as per facility policy and procedures to ensure compliance with federal and state regulations.
Monitors weekly and monthly weights and collaborates with nursing personnel to make appropriate recommendations.
Monitors meals to ensure they provide nutritious, well-prepared, and palatable meals in a timely and consistent manner while adhering to menus and diet orders.
Verifies appropriate meals/snacks are served to residents with special dietary needs.