Registered Dietitian, Weekday, Per Diem, Day Shift

Adventist Health • Vallejo, CA

5d • $36 - $49

About The Position

Adventist Health Vallejo is a 61-bed freestanding facility providing short-term psychiatric care for children, adolescents, and adults, as well as partial hospitalization programs for adults. The Registered Dietitian provides comprehensive nutritional care to patients and residents with special needs or who meet nutritional risk criteria. Care includes assessment and reassessment, patient and family education, interdisciplinary communication, nutrition care planning, and documentation in accordance with policy and accepted practice standards. The role provides clinical care using appropriate technical and decision-making skills.

The position is per diem and scheduled on weekdays during the day shift. The role also supports nutrition education for patients, families, health care personnel, dietetic interns, and the community, and may perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in food and nutrition or equivalent.
• Master's degree required only if eligibility for examination began on or after January 1, 2024.
• Dietetic internship or equivalent.
• Registered Dietitian (RD) credential within six months of completion of the residency program.
• Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) or Techniques for Effective Aggression Management (TEAM) certification.
• Receive required vaccinations as a condition of employment and annually thereafter where applicable; medical and religious exemptions may apply.

Nice To Haves

• Experience as a Clinical Dietitian.

Responsibilities

• Assess patients to identify nutritional risk and provide quality nutritional care through nutrition plans, meal-pattern facilitation, intake monitoring, interventions, and nutrition education.
• Complete initial nutritional assessments and ongoing reassessments of nutritional condition and stability, determine nutritional diagnoses, and evaluate patient responses to the plan of care.
• Set patient-care priorities and assign personnel to patient-care activities according to their job descriptions, scope of practice, skills, abilities, and competency.
• Administer medical nutrition therapy safely and accurately, and monitor and document care and patient responses.
• Serve as an educational resource for health care personnel, dietetic interns, patients, families, and the community.
• Orient and instruct new professional, registered, assistive, and ancillary personnel on job duties, assignments, and clinical activities.
• Provide learning opportunities to meet the nutrition education needs of patients, family members, and significant others.
• Collect and assess data directly related to the patient's nutritional condition and stability, and supervise assigned personnel's indirect data collection.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Entry Level