Dietitian Hospital Healthcare

As our Clinical Dietitian I, you will serve as a key entry-level clinician, assessing patient nutritional status to enhance disease and condition management. You will actively monitor progress, adjust care plans, and collaborate with Food and Nutrition Services to ensure exceptional patient experience and dining quality.

To be successful in this role, you will leverage your strong skills in disease management, health counseling, and nutrition therapy to develop effective intervention plans. Performs nutritional assessment using age and gender appropriate standards, cultural, religious and ethnic backgrounds; and utilizing validated assessment tools resulting in nutrition-related diagnosis when indicated. Conducts routine screening to identify patients at nutritional risk. Collaborates within an interdisciplinary environment to contribute to facilitating care and identifying patients at nutrition risk or needing higher levels of care.

Implements targeted and specific nutrition intervention(s). Provides customized nutrition education to patients and/or families and caregivers. Closely monitors, evaluates and rescreens patient nutrition status as appropriate. Develops an intervention plan which includes appropriate feeding route, mode, and nutrition prescription unique to patient's specific needs, in accordance with physicians' orders. Monitors and evaluates patient response to interventions by meeting specific measurable goals documented in the nutrition care plan in a timely and thorough manner in the medical record.

Collaborates with the Food and Nutrition Services team to enhance patient experience. This includes participating in test trays, menu reviews, periodic auditing of trayline for accuracy of diet orders, validating menu compliance with the facility Diet Manual Handbook and Nutrition Care Manual (NCM), supporting with patient interactive positions (i.e. dietitians, diet clerks, etc.), maintaining communication with patients, staff, and guests and providing excellent customer service. Bachelor's Degree with completion of accredited dietetics program (ACEND -Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition Dietetics).

Valid registration as a Registered Dietitian with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR).

Founded in 1899, Dignity Health - St. Joseph's Medical Center is a 355-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Stockton, California. Serving over 125,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level III NICU, cancer care, heart care, and a family birth center. Joseph's Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. One Community.