Registered Dietitian - Nursing Home - Harlem

Job Description

Job Description

About NYC Health + Hospitals

At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

NYC Health + Hospitals/Carter (1752 Park Ave, New York, NY 10035) is a state-of-the-art facility with a 4-Star CMS Quality Rating, equipped with 164-bed Skilled Nursing Facility and 201-bed Long-Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH) based in Harlem. Carter excels at providing quality medical, sub-acute, rehabilitative, and long-term specialty services for individuals in need of medically-complex care like ventilator weaning and onsite-dialysis. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies our ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnership.

Job Description

Under administrative direction, organizes, plans and directs the operation of the dietary service for an agency. In addition to performing the duties of lower Assignment Levels at a more difficult and responsible level, performs the following:

• Organizes, plans, and directs functions of the dietary service. Plans Dietitians’ schedules ensuring adequate coverage. Ensures their full compliance with prescribed clinical standards.
• Plans staff orientation and in-service educational programs. Develops and coordinates ongoing quality assurance program. Implements performance indicators and pursues corrective remedies, to ensure strict adherence to established standards.
• Ensures that the agency diet manual is prepared, revised and updated.
• Plans and conducts staff meetings, to discuss issues pertinent to the agency’s clinical program.
• Assists the Director in the review, planning, and updating of menus for the general population, as well as for therapeutic and religious diets.
• In the absence of the director, assumes full responsibility.
• Plans and/or supervises staff orientation, in-service educational programs, and client or family education. May develop and coordinate ongoing quality assurance program.
• Reviews and modifies menu plans submitted by subordinate dietary staff.
• Supervises the selection and inventory control of foods, supplies and equipment.
• Conducts staff conferences and participates in the implementation of new and/or revised policies, procedures and regulations that are consistent with dietary practices established by the facility, State Health Code and/or other regulatory agencies.
• Participates in the evaluation of the dietary service and preparation of audit by regulatory agencies.
• Directs the issuance of food and supplies to various dietary units.
• Evaluates and approves performance evaluations of subordinate staff.
• Maintains records and writes reports.
• Control of foods, supplies and equipment.

This is a provisional position.

Minimum Qualifications:

Qualification Requirements:

For appointment to Assignment Level I:

• Baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university, with a major in Dietetics or Foods and Nutrition in a program approved by the American Dietetic Association (ADA); or
• Registration or eligibility for registration by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) as a Registered Dietitian or New York State Certification as a Dietitian-Nutritionist.

For appointment to Assignment Level II:

• Registration or eligibility for registration by the CDR as a Registered Dietitian or New York State Certification as a Dietitian-Nutritionist.

For appointment to Assignment Levels III and IV:

• Registration by the CDR as a Registered Dietitian or New York State Certification as a Dietitian-Nutritionist.

Special Note for Dietitians assigned to Post-Acute Care (Long-Term Care) facility:

Under the Medicare and Medicaid Programs, Reform of Requirements for Long-Term Care Facilities, as outlined in Section 483.60 of Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations all newly-hired Dietitians, Levels I-IV assigned to a Post-Acute Care (Long-Term Care) facility, are required to have New York State Certification, issued by the New York State Education Department (NYSED), as a Dietitian-Nutritionist at the time of hire. Dietitians, Levels I-IV hired prior to November 28, 2016, assigned to a Post-Acute Care (Long-Term Care) facility are required to obtain New York State Certification, issued by the NYSED, as a Dietitian-Nutritionist on or before November 28, 2021.

NYC Health and Hospitals offers a competitive benefits package that includes:

• Comprehensive Health Benefits for employees hired to work 20+ hrs. per week.
• Retirement Savings and Pension Plans.
• Loan Forgiveness Programs for eligible employees.
• Paid Holidays and Vacation in accordance with employees' Collectively bargained contracts.
• College tuition discounts and professional development opportunities.
• Multiple employee discounts programs.