Registered Dietitian
About The Position
The Clinical Dietitian is responsible for nutrition care for clients in assigned settings and for overseeing oral, enteral, and parenteral nutrition support for the assigned population. The dietitian screens, assesses, educates, monitors, and evaluates patients according to established practice guidelines and Nutrition Services policies, and coordinates care with the health care team. The role designs and implements nutrition strategies that promote lifelong health and minimize health- and disease-related risk factors. The position provides developmentally appropriate nutrition care across infant, child, adolescent, adult, and geriatric populations. It contributes to nutrition screening parameters, protocols, and policies; develops individualized care plans with patients and caregivers; and monitors progress and outcomes. The dietitian uses evidence-based practice, relevant scientific principles, applicable laws, and regulatory standards, and may serve as a preceptor and guide dietetic interns and students. The position is PRN, with an AM schedule listed as Monday through Sunday, 8:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m., varied. A $6,000 sign-on bonus is listed. Lexington Health describes itself as a regional health care network that includes a 607-bed teaching hospital in West Columbia, South Carolina, and numerous community care centers and physician practices.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Nutrition and Dietetics or a related field.
- A master’s degree may be substituted with a bachelor’s degree and active Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) status achieved before January 1, 2024.
- No minimum years of experience required.
- Registration through examination administered by the Commission on Dietetic Registration of the American Dietetic Association.
- Current license to practice dietetics in South Carolina.
- Registry-eligible candidates may be considered if they document eligibility and complete the registration exam and obtain a South Carolina dietetics license within six months of the start date as a condition of continued employment.
- Demonstrated competence providing developmentally appropriate care to infant, child, adolescent, adult, and geriatric populations.
Responsibilities
- Provide nutrition care for clients in assigned settings and oversee oral, enteral, and parenteral nutrition support for the assigned population.
- Screen, assess, educate, monitor, and evaluate patients according to practice guidelines and Nutrition Services policies.
- Provide developmentally appropriate nutrition care for infants, children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric patients.
- Contribute to the development of nutrition screening parameters, protocols, and policies.
- Collaborate with patients, families, and caregivers to assess needs, set priorities, establish goals and outcomes, and develop individualized care plans.
- Coordinate patient care with members of the health care team and monitor progress toward care goals.
- Evaluate nutrition care processes and patient outcomes and participate in department and hospital-wide performance-improvement data collection.
- Perform the nutrition care process, including nutrition risk identification, assessment, diagnosis, intervention, monitoring, and evaluation.
- Use relevant data to identify nutrition-related problems and implement interventions intended to improve nutrition-related behaviors, risk factors, or conditions.
- Communicate scientific principles, research, and theory, and share nutrition knowledge with patients, families, and health care team members.
- Serve as a preceptor and guide dietetic interns and students in applying nutrition knowledge and skills.
- Contribute to development of new knowledge and services and use practice guidelines, references, and the nutrition care manual.
- Use resources effectively and consider safety, effectiveness, and cost when providing nutrition services and products.
- Engage in lifelong learning, conduct self-assessments, identify professional development needs, and document professional development activities.
- Apply research findings and best available evidence in practice and adhere to the ADA Code of Ethics.
- Follow policies, demonstrate professional conduct and excellent customer service, and complete assignments reliably.
- Observe safety and sanitation rules, maintain a clean and comfortable work environment, and perform other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Day-one medical, dental, and life insurance benefits for benefit-eligible employees.
- Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
- 403(b) match plan enrollment from day one; Lexington Health matches dollar for dollar up to 6%.
- Employer-paid life insurance equal to one times salary.
- Optional supplemental life insurance with low-cost premiums, up to three times salary.
- Adoption assistance.
- Employer-paid short-term and long-term disability coverage for full-time employees after 90 days of eligible employment.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Student loan forgiveness.
- $6,000 sign-on bonus.
