Registered Dietitian - Full Time
About The Position
Select Specialty Hospital 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 plays a central role in delivering compassionate, high-quality nutritional care. This full-time role is located at Select Specialty Hospital in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, inside Independence Health System Latrobe Hospital, and pays $24.00–$38.00 per hour based on experience. The Registered Dietitian develops, implements, and monitors medical nutrition therapies and works collaboratively with medical staff, patients, families, food service, and Speech Therapy to ensure nutrition care plans are implemented and patient safety and oral intake are supported. The role includes nutritional assessment and monitoring, nutrition support regimen development, diet and order review, patient meal rounds, menu planning, staff education, and participation in interdisciplinary care. The dietitian also maintains professional registration and keeps current with nutrition practices and theories.
Requirements
- Current state licensure or certification, if required by the state.
- Current registration by the Commission on Dietetic 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 promote patient safety and optimize 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 updates to and annually approve the therapeutic diet manual; educate clinical and food service staff about the Nutrition Care Manual 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 ensure patient trays match prescribed diets and meet standards for quality, quantity, temperature, and appearance.
Benefits
- Extensive and thorough Registered Dietitian orientation program.
- Medical and prescription drug plan offerings for full-time team members.
- Health, vision, and dental plan offerings for full-time team members.
- Generous paid time off for full-time team members.
- Company-matching 401(k) retirement plan.
- Life and disability protection.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
