Supervisory Dietitian (Clinical Nutrition)

Job Title

Duties include but are not limited to the following:

• Provides clinical nutrition section specific leadership serving as professional and technical advisor to staff and other health care professionals.
• Has oversight over HR Staffing, employee relations and labor relations in Clinical Nutrition Section.
• Exercises a full range of supervisory and personnel management authorities and assumes full responsibility in planning, directing, and assessing work of subordinate staff.
• Establishes a training plan for the clinical section that is based on evidence-based nutrition.
• Develops and leads clinical nutrition operations.
• Establishes strategic goals and ensure priorities align with the strategic plan of the NFS department, VISN and national programs.
• Leads performance improvement efforts within Clinical Nutrition section, acting on quality improvement data and plans.
• Identifies and prioritizes problems, sets long and short-term goals, develops action plans and analyses data to evaluate progress to improve outcomes.
• Develops and updates policies and procedures and the establishment and oversight of a system for regulatory compliance.
• Solicits support and/or negotiate with facility managers to influence decision making and garner support to ensure clinical nutrition operations are a success.
• Collaborates closely with the supervisory dietitians to cover the work in all NFS and execute the activities of the department.
• May perform other related duties as assigned which are appropriate for this grade and assignment.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 7:00am to 3:30pm

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: PD000000

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

US Department of Veterans Affairs