REGISTERED DIETITIAN - Full Time

EDCare•Denver, CO

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Oversee and implement all aspects of nutrition care. Provide nutritional counseling to patients in all clinical programs. This role involves completing thorough nutritional assessments, managing follow-up sessions, and creating individualized nutrition treatment plans with appropriate goals and objectives. The position also requires developing diverse meal plans, demonstrating knowledge of food service regulations, and enforcing regulatory requirements. The Registered Dietitian will utilize clinical interviewing and counseling skills, build therapeutic rapport, and facilitate educational and nutritional groups. Timely and accurate completion of paperwork, including assessments, treatment plans, and progress notes, is essential. This role ensures continuity of care by communicating with outpatient RDs and providing culinary coverage, including planning, preparing, portioning, and serving meals, while verifying allergens and dietary needs. The position requires staying current with ED Care expectations and guidelines, providing supervision to dietary interns, and potentially offering outpatient counseling services. Referrals to other providers/resources will be made when treating outpatients. The role also includes facilitating meal therapy, actively participating in multidisciplinary teams, and collaborating with the Program Director to assess program effectiveness. Other responsibilities include maintaining schedules for appropriate staffing coverage, effective communication via email and calls, and complying with all regulatory and accreditation requirements such as HIPAA, The Joint Commission, and health departments.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition required.
Registered Dietitian or RD eligible, passing RD exam within 90 days of hire required.
Experience working individually and in groups preferably with eating disordered patients.
Must be able to effectively maneuver within an office scheduling system.
Minimum of beginner skills in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Intermediate skills are required with Microsoft Outlook.
Must be able to efficiently learn and effectively work within an electronic medical records system.

Nice To Haves

Clinical conceptualization of the treatment of eating disorders and dual diagnosis preferred.
Good oral and written communication skills preferred.

Responsibilities

Completes thorough nutritional assessment within 48 hours.
Manages scheduling for follow up sessions, holding weekly sessions and completing adjoining charting.
Creates an individualized nutrition treatment plan with appropriate goals and objectives.
Develops meal plans demonstrating diversity and meeting the nutritional needs of the patient.
Demonstrates knowledge of food service regulations and environmental risks while enforcing regulatory requirements.
Demonstrates knowledge of and practice of clinical interviewing/counseling skills.
Demonstrates ability to build therapeutic rapport.
Facilitates educational and nutritional groups with expertise, demonstrating ability to engage, set limits and monitor the group process.
Timely completion and accuracy of assigned paperwork: assessments, treatment plans, progress notes, group notes, etc.
Provide continuity of care; communicating with outpatient RD’s within 48 hours of patient’s initial assessment, throughout stay as decided between ED Care/Outpatient team, and prior to discharge.
Provide culinary coverage as scheduled: planning, preparing, portioning, and serving of meals.
Verifying allergens and specific dietary needs.
Stays current in expectations and practices guidelines set out by ED Care as they are updated.
Provides supervision to dietary interns and utilizes support resources to ensure outstanding quality of dietary services.
Providing nutritional outpatient counseling services, balancing time spent in OP with other Job responsibilities, if requested.
When treating Outpatients, makes referrals to other providers/resources as indicated, including psychiatrist, individual therapist, Primary Care Provider, family therapist, group etc.
Using internal referral form for any in house referrals.
Facilitate meal therapy with patients including processing and documentation, if needed.
Actively participate in multidisciplinary team, providing input on patient care and attending staffing meetings.
Work with Program Director to assess the effectiveness of existing program and provide input.
Other job duties as assigned.
Maintain schedule (time off, etc.) that provides appropriate staffing coverage.
Demonstrate effective communication by checking and responding to email and calls within a timely manner.
Comply with all regulatory and accreditation requirements for the clinical services and food production services. This includes but is not necessarily limited to HIPAA, The Joint Commission and federal, state and/or local health departments.