Licensed Dietician

Description

The essential functions of this role are as follows:

• Analyze patients' nutritional status to create nutrition care plans, monitor dietary intake and weights, and adjust as needed to support optimal nutritional outcomes.

• Complete initial, annual, quarterly, and high-risk assessments per hospital policy to ensure timely evaluation of patient needs.

• Record diet histories and assessments, charts, and progress notes to maintain accurate clinical documentation.

• Monitor food service operations to ensure nutritional adequacy and safe food handling practices.

• Ensure regulatory requirements set by Centers for Medicare/Medicaid Services (CMS) and The Joint Commission (TJC) are being met by following standardized processes.

• Implement evidence-based practice, interventions, and recommendations using Nutrition Care Manual Standardized Terminology into daily practice to support consistent, high-quality care.

• Work as part of a collaborative healthcare team to ensure optimal nutritional results.

The job profile is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.

What You'll Need for Success:

Individuals in this role should minimally be able to articulate or demonstrate the following:

• Ability to analyze patients' nutritional status, dietary intake, and weight trends.

• Ability to implement evidence-based practice, interventions, and recommendations using Nutrition Care Manual Standardized Terminology.

• Ability to monitor food service operations to ensure nutritional adequacy and safe food handling practices.

• Ability to ensure regulatory requirements set by CMS and TJC are being met by following standardized processes.

• Ability to create nutrition care plans and adjust them as needed.

• Ability to complete initial, annual, quarterly, and high-risk assessments per hospital policy.

• Ability to work as part of a collaborative healthcare team to ensure optimal nutritional results.

• Ability to evaluate and monitor patient nutritional needs and adjust care plans to achieve desired outcomes.

• Ability to ensure safe food handling practices and regulatory compliance to support high-quality patient care.

• Ability to record diet histories and assessments, charts, and progress notes accurately.

• Ability to manage multiple assessment timelines (initial, annual, quarterly, high-risk) in accordance with hospital policy.

• Individuals should have the ability to perform essential functions with or without reasonable accommodation.

Supervisory Responsibilities/Direct Reports:

This role may be utilized in a supervisory capacity based on agency needs.

Difficulty of Work:

You will perform duties based on department guidelines and is under the direct supervision of the Medical Director. Judgment is required in selecting guidelines and adapting alternatives. Your work is broad in scope and involves many variables in the application of dietetics principles.

Responsibility:

While not the final authority, incumbent must exercise judgment in applying alternatives and in conferring with medical/nursing staff and dietary supervisors related to unusual dietary problems or concerns. Unusual problems or deviation from guidelines are discussed with supervisor who otherwise reviews work periodically for accomplishment of objectives.

Personal Work Relationships:

Works with patients, physicians and other clinical staff as required, hospital department heads, students, commercial vendors, general public and community sector.

Personal Work Relationships:

A high level of judgement and effective communication is required during times of contact with residents or incarcerated individuals.

Residents or incarcerated individuals may have family, friends, community partners and/or other interested parties come to the facility requesting information or to visit with the person according to policies and procedures.

This position will communicate directly with adults, children and families on a regular basis.

Physical Effort:

Depending on the duties performed or environment setting, frequent walking, standing, climbing stairs or ladders, bending, stooping, pushing, pulling and/or similar movements may be involved.

This role requires the ability to lift/transport items up to 50 lbs with or without the assistance of equipment.

This role requires the ability to run short distances to provide immediate care, protection, or attention to patients or incarcerated individuals.

This role requires keen observational and hearing skills to stay alert for possible dangerous situations.

Working Conditions:

This role performs work in a state operated hospital facility.

This role requires the appropriate use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when necessary.

This role requires a high level of attention and safety due to work activities having risk of injury or loss of life.

Competencies:

• Displaying Technical Expertise

• Demonstrating Initiative

• Driving for Results

• Prioritizing and Organizing Work