Registered Dietitian - Bariatric Surgery - Hartford - 40 hrs

Employment Type: Full time Shift: Day Shift Description: Thrive in a fast-paced Surgical Bariatrics Specialty Practice where your work truly makes a difference. Join a supportive, high-energy team dedicated to exceptional patient care. In this role, you'll provide optimal nutritional care by identifying age‑specific patient needs, assessing nutritional status, designing appropriate care plans and monitoring to maximize clinical outcomes. Provides evidence‑based nutritional information and guidance to physicians, staff, patients, and families. You Will Be Responsible For: Exceptional Patient Care: Develops and implements patient specific nutritional care plans, interventions, and goals as per Nutrition Practice Guidelines and Clinical Nutrition Policies. Excellent Communicator: Provides information on MNT to physicians and other allied health care team members as needed. Provides guidance to Diet Technicians to ensure appropriate MNT is being delivered to patients. Excellent Educator: Monitors for food and drug interactions and makes appropriate interventions. Educates patients on food/drug interactions when appropriate. Technical Familiarity: Documents all assessments, patient education, nutrition care plans, interventions, and goals in the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) utilizing Standardized Language and Nutrition Care Process. Active Teamwork: Confers with physicians and other allied health care team members to clarify orders, recommends appropriate MNT and exchange patient information. Work Hours/Shift: Full-time, 40 hours per week, Days. Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in food and nutrition, dietetics, or related field. Registration as a dietitian with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) and a state licensure as a licensed dietitian/nutritionist (LDN) are required. Maintenance of registration and licensure required as per guidelines. Position requires a minimum of one (1) year of experience as a dietitian, preferably in a healthcare environment. Analytical ability to collect information from diverse sources, synthesize a problem list and to devise/implement intervention. Effective verbal and written communication skills, explaining clinical and technical concepts to physicians, other health care team members, patients, and their families. Enforces policies and regulations in difficult situations. Allergen Awareness training/certificate and Serv Safe Management training/certificate preferred. Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. We honor the dignity of every person and recognize the unique perspectives, experiences, and talents each colleague brings. Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce through training, education, recruitment, retention, and development, commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity. Equal Opportunity Employer: We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. EOE including disability/veteran. #J-18808-Ljbffr Trinity Health