Registered Dietitian

Compass Health Center•Northbrook, IL

9d•Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Dietitian works in Compass Health Center’s Adult Eating Disorders Program at its Northbrook location. The role provides nutrition therapy and support to patients for whom their relationship with food is a primary treatment focus. Work includes individual nutrition sessions, clinical nutrition groups, and direct support during meals and snacks. The dietitian collaborates with therapists, psychiatry, nursing, and prescribers to provide comprehensive care, and reports to the Associate Director of the Eating Disorders Program, with a clinical dotted line to the program Director. The position may also provide virtual support to other locations and adolescent programming as indicated. Compass Health Center provides crisis-level mental health care through Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient programs, both onsite and virtually. The organization describes its work as bridging the gap between outpatient and inpatient care and emphasizes cultural humility, teamwork, continuous improvement, connection, patient-centered care, passion, innovation, and agility.

Requirements

Master’s degree in dietetics or a related field, or bachelor’s degree if licensed prior to 2024.
Registered Dietitian credential through the Commission on Dietetic Registration.
State licensure or certification as required for practice.
At least 2 years of experience as a Registered Dietitian, including experience in eating disorder treatment.
Able to provide nutrition care in a behavioral treatment context, where the meal plan is an exposure rather than only a prescription.
Able to maintain the meal plan under patient distress without negotiating, accommodating, or reassuring.
Recognizes how co-occurring OCD, trauma, and mood symptoms may present around food and adjusts the approach accordingly.
Comfortable with medical acuity and promptly escalating medical concerns.
Able to work within a defined curriculum and fidelity expectations.
Practices as an independent clinical discipline and collaborates with therapists as peers.
Seeks and uses supervision and consultation.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a PHP, IOP, residential, or inpatient setting.
Practices from a weight-inclusive framework.
Adopts an “all foods fit” approach toward clinical nutrition.

Responsibilities

Complete nutrition assessments at admission, including nutrition diagnosis, intervention, monitoring, and evaluation planning.
Develop individualized meal plans supporting nutritional rehabilitation and progressive exposure to avoided and feared foods.
Establish and revise biologically appropriate weight ranges in collaboration with the treatment team.
Collaborate with nursing and prescribers to assess and monitor medical status, including weights, vital signs, and lab values, and adjust nutrition interventions as needed.
Revise nutrition plans as intake, medical status, and treatment targets change.
Meet individually with patients to review intake, adjust meal plans, and set nutrition-related treatment targets.
Address food rules, ritualized eating, compensatory behaviors, and avoidance.
Support nutrition interventions, including structured food exposure planning.
Address exercise, movement, and compensatory activity in collaboration with the treatment team.
Prepare patients for independent eating at step-down and discharge, including grocery preparation and restaurant planning.
Facilitate clinical nutrition groups and applied nutrition groups, including in vivo food-based interventions.
Provide required coverage during supported meals and snacks, coaching patients through meal completion, distress, and post-meal urges.
Communicate intake and behavioral observations to the treatment team.
Partner with treatment team members to align nutrition targets with case formulation and treatment targets.
Contribute nutrition and medical observations during interdisciplinary rounds and serve as a nutrition resource for prescribers, nursing, and clinical staff.
Provide nutrition education to families and support people in partnership with the Family Therapist.
Coordinate with outpatient dietitians and medical providers through nutrition aftercare handoff.
Contribute nutrition documentation supporting initial and continued insurance authorization.
Participate in required program training, fidelity monitoring, supervision, and consultation.
Complete required documentation throughout treatment.
Contribute to development of program nutrition standards, meal structure, curriculum, and food sourcing practices.
Perform other duties as assigned.