Registered Dietitian - Per Diem

Select Specialty Hospital - Gulfport (Gulf Coast) • Gulfport, MS

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Select Specialty Hospital - Gulfport is a critical illness recovery hospital providing inpatient post-ICU services to chronically and critically ill patients who need extended healing and recovery. The Registered Dietitian provides compassionate nutritional care and supports patients throughout recovery. This per diem position is located in Gulfport, Mississippi, with a negotiable schedule and a pay rate of $31.00 per hour.

The role includes assessing patients’ nutritional needs and developing, implementing, and monitoring nutrition therapy and nutrition-support plans. The dietitian works with medical staff, patients, families, food service, and Speech Therapy to coordinate safe, effective nutrition care and maintain departmental standards. The position also involves education, menu planning, meal-tray reviews, interdisciplinary collaboration, and maintaining current professional knowledge and registration.

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.

Nice To Haves

• Interest in continuing education, academics, or specialized certification to further enhance professional skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide quality nutritional care, including developing, implementing, and monitoring Medical Nutrition Therapies.
• Collaborate with medical staff, patients, families, and the food service department to implement nutrition care plans and maintain departmental standards.
• Perform nutritional assessments and reassessments; identify goals, recommend interventions, and monitor and evaluate patient progress.
• Develop and monitor enteral and/or parenteral nutrition support regimens.
• Work with the Speech Therapy Department on progression of texture-modified diets to support patient safety and oral intake.
• Clarify admission orders to ensure nutrition support, diet, and oral supplement orders align with the facility’s nutrition support formulary and diet manual.
• Consider religious, cultural, and ethnic factors when developing nutrition care plans.
• Review annual updates and approve the therapeutic diet manual; educate clinical and food service staff on the Nutrition Care Manual’s location; and maintain a simplified hard-copy diet manual for downtime.
• Keep current with nutritional practices and theories and maintain professional registration requirements, including professional portfolio, self-development, and continuing education.
• Evaluate potential food/drug and herb/supplement interactions.
• Attend interdisciplinary team meetings and communicate patient progress and special needs.
• Participate in developing, planning, and standardizing menus.
• Conduct meal rounds to verify patient meal trays match prescribed diets and meet quality, quantity, temperature, and appearance standards.

Benefits

• Extensive orientation program.
• Potential opportunity for advancement to full-time employment.
• Benefits supporting financial, work/life, and emotional well-being for employees and their family members.
• 401(k) eligibility for part-time/per diem employees who reach 1,000 hours within their first anniversary or a subsequent calendar year.

What This Job Offers

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