Registered Dietitian - Full Time
About The Position
Select Medical Rehabilitation Hospital at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana, is hiring a full-time Registered Dietitian. The inpatient rehabilitation hospital provides care for people facing medical, physical, emotional, and vocational challenges related to brain and spinal cord injuries, neurological disorders, orthopedic issues, amputation, and multiple traumas. Compensation is $25.00–$40.00 per hour, based on years of experience, and the position offers a $10,000 sign-on bonus. The Registered Dietitian provides nutrition services and develops individualized nutritional care plans in coordination with patients and the interdisciplinary care team. The role also includes patient and staff education, participation in care-planning meetings and medical rounds as assigned or available, and maintaining current professional knowledge and registration requirements. The employer describes an extensive orientation program and offers full-time team members generous paid time off and paid sick time, medical/RX, health, vision, employee assistance program, and dental plan offerings, plus a company-matching 401(k) and life and disability protection.
Requirements
- Current state licensure or certification, if required by the state.
- Current registration by the Commission on Dietetics Registration.
- One year of work experience in a facility setting with clinical responsibilities, or equivalent.
- Complete post-offer employment testing (POETs) before the first day of work.
Responsibilities
- Provide nutrition services, including screening, initial assessments, reassessments, nutrition counseling and education, therapeutic diet calculations, and calorie counts.
- Develop appropriate nutritional care plans.
- Consider religious, cultural, and ethical factors when completing nutrition assessments and creating plans of care.
- Evaluate potential food/drug and herb/supplement interactions.
- Provide nutrition education and counseling as appropriate.
- Communicate and implement the nutritional plan of care with the interdisciplinary care team.
- Attend interdisciplinary care meetings when assigned to support development of patient care plans.
- Participate with the interdisciplinary team in medical rounds available at the facility, such as wound or dysphagia rounds.
- Develop and implement educational programs for patients and staff.
- Work with patients to identify nutrition education plans and set achievable goals.
- Keep current with nutritional practices and theories and maintain current ADA requirements, including a professional portfolio, self-development, and continuing education classes.
Benefits
- Extensive and thorough orientation program.
- Generous paid time off for full-time team members.
- Paid sick time for full-time team members.
- Medical/RX plan offerings for full-time team members.
- Health plan offerings for full-time team members.
- Vision plan offerings for full-time team members.
- Employee assistance program (EAP) for full-time team members.
- Dental plan offerings for full-time team members.
- Company-matching 401(k) retirement plan.
- Life and disability protection for full-time team members.
- $10,000 sign-on bonus.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
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