Clinical Dietitian II PT/PD

About the role

Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus is Houston’s first community hospital designed, built and equipped exclusively for children in one of the city’s most rapidly growing communities in the area from Sugar Land to Bryan-College Station, Texas.

Responsibilities

• Provides age-appropriate assessments and reassessments of all patients identified at nutrition risk to include malnutrition, weight management, diabetes management and education per established time frame/guidelines.
• Adapts nutrition plan to specific economic, social, cultural, and age-appropriate patient needs utilizing progressive problem-solving skills.
• Affirms learning needs and readiness to learn for all patients/families.
• Identifies and provides education opportunities to staff /students that increase skills (nursing course lectures, dietetic intern lectures, medical student/resident training).
• Participates in the orientation of training of clinical nutrition staff to include oversight of pathways for key areas as well as critical competencies.
• Collaborates with other professionals to integrate and communicate nutrition principles that enhance patient outcomes.
• Participates in interdisciplinary rounds and care management meeting/huddles and interacts with the care team to coordinate the implementation of the nutrition care plan.
• Collaborates in the coordination and transition of care across the continuum to include home care coordination of products and supplies.
• Implements and utilizes hospital approved hand off technique per policy to facilitate patient hand off to different care providers.

Requirements

• RD/RDN - Certification from Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Commission on Dietetic Registration required
• LD - Licensed Dietitian Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation required
• 4 years' experience in Nutrition as a registered dietitian required
• 2 years' experience in pediatric nutrition preferred

Preferred Certifications

• CDCES - Cert Diab Care and Educ Spec Certification Board of Diabetes Care and Education
• CCTD - Cert Clin Transplant Dietitian
• NATCO The Organization for Donation and Transplant Professionals
• CEDS- Cert Eating Disorders Specialist International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals
• CHES - Cert-Cert Health Education Spec National Commission for Health Education Credentialing
• CNSC - Cert-Cert NTI Support CLIN National Board of Nutrition Support Certification
• CSO - Cert-BC SPCLST Oncology NUTR Commission on Dietetic Registration
• CSP - Cert Spec in Pedi Nutrition Commission on Dietetic Registration
• CSSD - Brd Cert Spec Sports Dietetics Commission on Dietetic Registration
• IBCLC - Cert-Lactation Con IBCLC International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners
• CEDS-C Cert Eating Disorder Specialist Consultant International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals
• CSDH - Certified Specialist Digestive Health Commission
• CSDH - Certified Specialist Digestive Health Commission

Qualifications

• RD/RDN - Certification from Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Commission on Dietetic Registration required
• LD - Licensed Dietitian Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation required
• 4 years' experience in Nutrition as a registered dietitian required
• 2 years' experience in pediatric nutrition preferred

Skills

• Age-appropriate assessments and reassessments of all patients identified at nutrition risk
• Adapts nutrition plan to specific economic, social, cultural, and age-appropriate patient needs
• Identifies and provides education opportunities to staff /students
• Collaborates with other professionals to integrate and communicate nutrition principles
• Coordinates/transitions care across the continuum
• Implements and utilizes hospital approved hand off technique per policy

Benefits

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