Dietitian

Job Requisition ID: R00053188

About the role

To plan and conduct food service or nutritional programs to assist in the promotion of health and control of disease in accordance with medical nutrition care protocols. To counsel individuals or groups, conduct nutritional research, and/or provide program participant certification.

Responsibilities

• Assesses nutritional needs, diet restrictions, and current health plans to develop and implement dietary care plans and provide nutritional counseling.
• Assesses nutritional status, identifies nutrition problems, and formulates a comprehensive care plan according to patient needs, including age; cognitive, social, and physical developmental stage; culture; severity of disease; conditions of impairment or disability; and physical signs of malnutrition.
• Determines nutrition goals and recommends comprehensive nutrition interventions to resolve or improve nutrition problems and achieve goals, including but not limited to fluid, electrolyte, and glucose management; management of pharmacotherapy in relation to drug-nutrient interactions; supplements; enteral and parenteral formulas; equipment needed to deliver nutrition formulas; transitional feeding plans; and post-discharge nutrition care plans.
• Confers with physicians and healthcare personnel to determine patients’ nutritional needs and diet restrictions.
• Educates patients and their families on nutritional principles, dietary plans and modifications, and food selection and preparation; arranges for individual follow-up as needed.
• Counsels individuals and groups on the basic principles of good nutrition, healthy eating habits, and nutrition maintenance to improve their quality of life.
• Certifies individuals for participation in programs such as Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and research programs, as appropriate.

The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Management retains the right to add or change duties at any time.

Requirements

• Licensed Dietitian from the Mississippi Department of Health and Registered Dietitian from the Commission on Dietetic Registration required by hire date.

Skills

• Knowledge of food, nutrition, and physical/biological sciences.
• Knowledge of research methodologies, needs assessments, outcome-based research, scientific methods, and quality improvement methods.
• Knowledge of the influence of age, growth, and normal development on nutritional requirements.
• Interpersonal and motivational skills.
• Ability to interpret basic statistics.
• Ability to calculate and interpret nutrient compositions of foods.
• Ability to calculate and/or define diets for specific health conditions.

Physical and Environmental Demands

• Constant exposure to biohazardous conditions such as risk of radiation exposure, blood borne pathogens, fumes or airborne particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals which mandate attention to safety considerations.
• Occasional working hours significantly beyond regularly scheduled hours.
• Occasional traveling to offsite locations.
• Constant activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature.
• Constant work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality.
• Occasional bending, occasional lifting and carrying up to 25 pounds, occasional crouching/stooping, occasional driving, occasional kneeling, occasional pushing/pulling, occasional reaching.
• Constant sitting, constant standing, frequent twisting, and constant walking.

(Occasional: up to 20%, Frequent: from 21% to 50%, Constant: 51% or more)

Pay

Salary

Schedule

• Time Type: Full time
• Work Shift: Day
• FTE %: 100

Benefits

• FLSA Designation/Job Exempt: Yes
• Benefits Eligibility: Yes
• Grant Funded: No