Registered Dietitian
About The Position
West Roxbury Health and Rehabilitation Center is seeking a compassionate, clinically strong Registered Dietitian to provide individualized nutritional care in a skilled nursing and rehabilitation community. The role supports residents and short-stay patients across long-term care, memory care, and subacute rehabilitation, including people recovering from illness, injury, surgery, orthopedic procedures, and cardiac conditions. Clinical needs may include enteral nutrition, dialysis and renal considerations, complex wounds, ostomy care, rehabilitation, oncology support, palliative care, memory care, and risks related to significant weight changes or malnutrition. The Registered Dietitian is a clinical resource for residents, families, nursing, medical providers, rehabilitation professionals, speech-language pathology, dining services, and facility leaders. Nutrition recommendations are integrated into residents’ broader clinical goals, recovery, wound healing, strength, comfort, and quality of life. The position also contributes to quality improvement, employee education, regulatory compliance, and survey readiness.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in nutrition, dietetics, or a related field.
- Current Registered Dietitian or Registered Dietitian Nutritionist credential through the Commission on Dietetic Registration.
- New York State Certified Dietitian-Nutritionist credential or other applicable state credential.
- Strong clinical-assessment, critical-thinking, documentation, counseling, and communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with residents, families, nursing employees, medical providers, rehabilitation professionals, and dining services.
- Ability to use electronic medical records and applicable nutrition software.
- Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English at the level necessary for safe care and effective workplace communication.
Nice To Haves
- Clinical nutrition experience in skilled nursing, rehabilitation, long-term care, geriatrics, dialysis, acute care, or another medically complex setting.
- Experience with enteral nutrition, renal considerations, wound healing, unintended weight change, or malnutrition.
- Familiarity with CMS and New York State nutrition-services requirements.
- Previous long-term-care experience is valuable; clinically capable Registered Dietitians from hospitals, dialysis, rehabilitation, outpatient clinical care, or other healthcare settings are also encouraged to apply.
Responsibilities
- Complete comprehensive nutrition assessments and reassessments.
- Identify residents at risk for malnutrition, unintended weight change, dehydration, impaired wound healing, and other nutrition-related concerns.
- Develop, implement, monitor, and revise individualized nutrition care plans.
- Make evidence-based recommendations using diagnoses, laboratory information, medications, intake, weight trends, treatment goals, and resident preferences.
- Monitor residents receiving enteral nutrition and recommend clinically indicated adjustments.
- Support nutrition planning for residents receiving dialysis or complex wound care.
- Provide nutrition counseling and education to residents and families.
- Accurately document assessments, interventions, recommendations, and outcomes in the electronic medical record.
- Participate in care-plan meetings, clinical reviews, and interdisciplinary discussions.
- Partner with nursing and medical providers regarding changes in condition, weight trends, laboratory information, hydration, supplements, and nutrition interventions.
- Collaborate with rehabilitation and speech-language professionals to support recovery, function, intake, and safe nutrition plans.
- Work with dining services to translate clinical recommendations and resident preferences into appropriate meal service.
- Serve as an accessible nutrition resource for facility leaders and care teams.
- Monitor nutrition-related quality indicators, trends, and outcomes.
- Conduct audits and contribute to performance-improvement initiatives.
- Support compliance with CMS, New York State Department of Health, and applicable nutrition-services requirements.
- Help maintain survey readiness through accurate documentation and consistent clinical practices.
- Provide nutrition education and in-service training to employees.
- Support and mentor dietetic interns or Diet Technicians when applicable.
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Job Type
Full-time
