Clinical Dietitian

Job Location: 601 Elmwood Ave, Rochester, New York, United States, 14642

Full-time, 40 scheduled weekly hours

Compensation Range: $62,400.00 - $84,240.00

Responsibilities

• Provides timely, evidence-based nutritional care and education to patients and families.
• Participates in the training of medical staff, dietetic interns, and peers.
• Responds to patients' needs and promotes and supports the highest quality nutritional care.
• Acts as a consultant/resource to all members of the health care team, and serves as liaison/ambassador between patients and foodservice staff.
• Provides ongoing nutritional assessment, monitoring, evaluation, and education to patients and families.
• Develops and implements individualized nutrition care plans for patients across the lifecycle, from infants to the elderly, as assigned.
• Integrates evidence-based research in the education, practice, and management of patients.
• Effectively communicates nutrition plans and rationale to team members verbally and in the medical record.
• Demonstrates the ability to utilize various HIPAA secure patient communication modalities such as Zoom, My Chart, etc.
• Provides education on medical nutrition therapy and food-drug interactions to patients, their families, and significant others.
• Ensures continuity of care when a patient transitions to an alternate level of care within the facility or at discharge.
• Develops nutrition education materials.
• Serves as clinical preceptor to dietetic interns and provides didactic training to nutrition students, peers, and other medical professionals.
• Participates in orienting, training, and in-servicing professional and other nutrition staff.
• Participates in continuing education opportunities.
• Participates in unit-based, disease-specific, or interdisciplinary rounds and acts as a consultant/resource to all members of the health care team.
• Participates in weekly nutrition support rounds.
• Serves as liaison/ambassador between patients/units and foodservice staff.
• Participates in quality assurance activities, including productivity and malnutrition tracking.
• Serves on committees for department and hospital initiatives.
• Represents the department at community nutrition functions.
• Attends regular department staff meetings as scheduled.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (accepted if certified by the Commission on Dietetics Registration for degrees received before 1/1/2024) and completion of one-year dietetic internship experience required.
• Master's degree (CEND certified for degrees received on/after 1/1/2024) and completion of one-year dietetic internship experience required.
• Or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Clinical nutrition experience in a healthcare setting preferred.

Skills

• Demonstrated strong communication skills required.
• Ability to work independently and effectively in a busy, multi-disciplinary medical practice setting required.
• Ability to prioritize workload and multi-task with accuracy and efficiency required.

Qualifications

• Registry-eligible by the Commission on Dietetic Registration upon hire required.
• RD - Registered Dietitian within 9 months required.