Clinical Dietitian - Inpatient Services

About the role

Inpatient Dietitian position covering PICU, Infectious Disease, and Hospital Pediatrics. Daily rounding and interdisciplinary team involvement daily. Includes a weekend and holiday on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Promotes preventive health for nutrition using research, advocacy, and public health initiatives.
• Provides Medical Nutrition Therapy in direct care of medical diseases and conditions across the continuum of care.
• Applies the Nutrition Care Process and workflow elements in providing person-centered nutrition care of patients.
• Provides education on healthy nutrition, obesity and disease prevention, as well as other topics.
• Coordinates programs and projects in schools, the community and hospital (internal and external programs and projects), representing Nationwide Children’s Hospital and developing strong community partnerships.

Education Requirement

• Bachelor of Science in Nutrition, required.

Licensure Requirement

• Licensed as a Registered Dietitian in the State of Ohio, required.
• Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) registration, and licensure to practice as a dietitian from the Ohio Board of Dietetics; OR – licensed permit with completion and passing of the RD exam within 3 months of employment.

Skills

• Analytical and organizational skills.
• Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.

Experience

• Experience as a clinical registered & licensed dietitian, preferred.
• Clinical pediatric experience, preferred.

Physical Requirements

• OCCASIONALLY: Bend/twist, Blood and/or Bodily Fluids, Communicable Diseases and/or Pathogens, Driving motor vehicles (work required) *additional testing may be required, Hand use: grasping, gripping, turning, Lifting / Carrying: 0-10 lbs, Loud Noises, Patient Equipment, Peripheral vision, Pushing / Pulling: 0-25 lbs, Reaching above shoulder, Seeing – Far/near, Squat/kneel
• FREQUENTLY: Audible speech, Color vision, Depth perception, Sitting, Standing, Walking
• CONTINUOUSLY: Computer skills, Decision Making, Flexing/extending of neck, Hearing acuity, Interpreting Data, Problem solving, Repetitive hand/arm use