Sports Performance Clinical Dietitian

Sports Performance Clinical Dietitian

Join our Clinical Nutrition team! We are currently looking for a full time Sports Performance Clinical Dietitian. This is a full time opportunity with a hybrid work schedule component.

About the role

This position is aimed to support The Health Systems Female Athlete Program, Orthopedic Sports Medicine Department and Performance Center. The sports dietitian provides individual and group/team nutrition counseling and education to enhance the performance of competitive and recreational athletes.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates competence in the areas of critical thinking, interpersonal relationships, and technical skills.
• Performs key functions of nutrition care according to department standards and procedures, including screening for nutrition risk, nutrition assessment, development of care plan, and follow-up monitoring/reassessment of patients identified to be at nutrition risk.
• Collaborates with physicians and other members of the health care team to implement nutrition care, coordinates care in conjunction with other disciplines, assesses progress of patients towards desired outcomes, records variances, and communicates with health care team when outcomes are not met.
• Serves as a nutrition resource/advocate to others for specific patients/families.
• Participates in team management rounds and care conferences of patients, and reports and responds to resulting requests for nutritional services.
• Instructs/counsels patients/families in nutritional care, understands/applies basic learning principles to both children and adults, is aware of available resources, utilizes available resources, and evaluates effectiveness of own teaching.
• Serves as student preceptor.
• Maintains and upgrades own level of nutritional care expertise while serving as a nutrition expert to staff, clients, students and community.
• Provides smooth, efficient, courteous flow of nutritional care information to Clinical Nutrition staff, managers and others health providers as needed.
• Actively participates in staff meetings, ad hoc meetings, and as a resource to others.
• Applies current research findings in practice by implementing evidenced based practice.
• Participates in department quality improvement activities and data collection as requested.
• Participates in community education activities and/or outreach programs as needed.

Required Education And Experience

• Master's Degree in Nutrition or Dietetics (required for RDs credentialed after 1/1/2024.) from an accredited college or university.
• Bachelor's Degree in Nutrition or related field from an accredited college or university.
• High School Graduate Required.
• Licensed Dietitian - Health Occupations Credentialing - Kansas (KDADS) upon Hire.