Senior Registered Dietitian

Job Responsibility

• Mentors and trains team members.
• Accurately and responsively performs varied and moderately complex clinical tasks.
• Assists team members with more complicated procedures and tasks.
• Determines methods and procedures for new tasks with clinical team members and department or unit management.
• Collaborates with senior team members to develop/validate methods, techniques, and analytical approaches.
• Interviews patients and/or family for nutritional history, obtains food preferences, assesses patients, and documents in patients' medical record.
• Conducts assessments of patients' medical records according to hospital policies and procedures, and recommends nutrition care plans to medical staff for review and consideration.
• Communicates therapeutic diet modifications and/or supplemental feedings to physicians for patients, ensuring accuracy of diet orders.
• Provides nutritional guidance, education, and counseling to patients and their families in accordance with prescribed diets.
• Calculates nutrient content of tube feeding and dietary intakes as ordered by physicians.
• Develops and utilizes effective lines of communication regarding nutrition information within the program and community.
• Guides and provides in-services to culinary, food service, and interdisciplinary teams regarding therapeutic diets and related topics.
• Participates in Quality Assurance/Performance Improvement related tasks, including data collection and recommendations on new processes, tools, and tasks.
• Assists and participates with regulatory compliance.

Job Qualification

• Master’s Degree or equivalent combination of education and related experience, required.
• Current Registered Dietitian Certification with the Commission on Dietetic Registration, required.
• Certified Dietitian Nutritionist in New York State (CDN), as needed.
• Advanced/specialized certifications, as needed.
• 3-5 years of relevant experience, required.
• Oncology experience, highly preferred.

Benefits

The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future. When determining a team member’s base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).

The salary range for this position is $75,020.00 - $126,250.00/year.