Registered Dietitian Nutritionist

Nutrition Services Position

This position is responsible for providing comprehensive nutrition service to eligible patients and provides nutritional consultation to assigned medical specialty clinics.

Essential functions include:

• Conducting assessments, planning, and implementing diet recommendations to children and adults with special health care needs
• Calculating nutrients to meet prescribed needs; developing individualized nutrition care plans and educating children and their families about their individual nutritional needs
• Documenting all nutritional care provided in the electronic health record in an accurate and timely manner, in accordance with clinic policies
• Providing nutrition consultation in the assigned interdisciplinary specialty clinics
• Providing patient and/or family with nutrition counseling and arranging for follow-up appointments as indicated
• Participating in nutrition educational in-services for the Clinic staff
• Participating in quality improvement and program development activities in specialty area, work team and, as assigned, in cross-functional teams. Participating in analysis of patient clinical and functional outcomes of care and using outcomes information to guide care planning
• Serving as mentor of dietetic interns from a variety of statewide internship programs
• Participating in new staff orientation and ongoing staff education; mentoring and providing training on areas of expertise or specialty as requested by Department Manager
• Facilitating the ordering of medically necessary nutritional supplies and supplementations by generating supporting documentation and communicating with vendors as is necessary
• Performing other duties as required and assigned

Knowledge, skills, and abilities include:

• Knowledge of evidence-based approaches to planning and providing pediatric nutritional care; experience in measuring and reporting clinical and functional outcomes of care to parents, physicians, and other professionals
• Knowledge of corporate, local, state, and national regulatory and billing requirements and ability to execute job duties consistent with them
• Skill in professional communication with staff and physicians involved in care, to ensure quality patient outcomes and care coordination
• Skill and proficiency in using Microsoft Office Suite
• Ability to obtain accurate anthropometric measurements and the ability to interpret measurements in a special needs population
• Ability to counsel patients and family on the importance of nutrition in patient's treatment plan and distributes appropriate literature as needed
• Ability to design and develop nutritional programs required by patients
• Ability to effectively manage time with a proven ability to meet deadlines; organization and attention to detail
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of patient, personnel, and corporate data
• Ability to operate personal computer and related office equipment as needed to perform job function

Qualifications:

Minimum qualifications:

• Master's degree in Dietetics or related field required
• Bachelor's degree in Dietetics or related field accepted if graduation date is prior to January 1st 2024
• Completion of dietetic internship and trainee program or equivalent required
• At least 1 year of clinical experience strongly preferred
• Two years related pediatric experience preferred
• Weight Management Counseling preferred
• Registered Dietitian Licensure from Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics required
• AHCCCS Provider Identification Number required and obtained upon hire
• BLS certification required
• Advanced credentialing preferred
• Fingerprint Clearance Card required

Age of patients attended by employee in this position:

• Neonatal (newborn)
• Pediatric (birth-13)
• Young Adult (14-21)
• Adult (21-65)

Physical demands and work environment:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear
• The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and taste or smell
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals
• The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, risk of electrical shock, and risk of radiation