Dietitian - Surgery Clinic

Job Description Henry Ford Health partners with millions of people on their health journey, across Michigan and around the world. We offer a full continuum of services from primary and preventative care to complex and specialty care, health insurance, a full suite of home health offerings, virtual care, pharmacy, eye care and other health care retail. With former Ascension southeast Michigan and Flint region locations now part of our team, Henry Ford's care is available in 13 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory care locations. Based in Detroit, Henry Ford is one of the nation's most respected academic medical centers and is leading the Future of Health: Detroit, a $3 billion investment anchored by a reimagined Henry Ford academic healthcare campus.
Job Title Dietitian- Registered
About the Department Join the Henry Ford Medical Group, one of Michigan's largest physician organizations, dedicated to delivering coordinated care across primary and specialty practices. Our team thrives on collaborative teamwork, leveraging leading clinical resources to build lasting relationships with patients and communities. As part of Henry Ford Health, you¿ll contribute to a culture of excellence and innovation in healthcare.
Role Overview We are seeking a highly motivated and compassionate Registered Dietitian (RD) to join our dedicated team. The Registered Dietitian will play a vital role in delivering comprehensive, individualized nutritional care to patients with obesity before and after bariatric surgery.
Act as nutritional consultant and resource to members of the health care team. Provides comprehensive nutritional care including assessment, Nutrition Diagnosis, implementation of a care plan, counseling, education, and evaluation of outcomes to patients, families, and associates. Assess the nutritional needs of patients by obtaining, verifying and interpreting data needed to identify nutrition related problems, their causes and significance.
Determine from patient/family, medical record and health care team the food and nutrition related history, anthropometric measurements, biochemical data, medical tests, and procedures, nutrition-focused physical findings and the client history.
Determine the nutrition diagnosis to identify and describe a specific nutrition problem (Intake, Clinical or Behavioral-Environmental) that can be resolved or improved through treatment/nutrition intervention by the registered dietitian.
Implement nutrition interventions to resolve or improve the identified nutrition problem. Nutrition therapy recommendations are based on individualized, specific patient care needs; including food and or nutrient delivery (meals, snacks, supplements, enteral or parenteral), nutrition education, nutrition counseling, and coordination of care.
Food/nutrition related history outcomes, anthropometric measurement outcomes, biochemical data, medical tests, and procedure outcomes, and nutrition-focused physical finding outcomes.)
Monitor patient¿s food tolerances to ensure appropriate food consistencies and assess adequate nutritional intake.
Collaborate and communicate with health care providers Acts as consultant
Informs team of advances in diet therapy, unusual diet related lab results, or other pertinent facts related to the nutritional care of the patient
Investigates unusual occurrences/customer service complaints

Educate patients and/or their significant other as appropriate, on nutrition and special diets to be followed during and after hospitalization based on physician¿s order to aid in maintaining patient¿s health.
Educate patients and/or their significant other as appropriate, on nutrition and Maintain documentation of nutrition services provided in the patient¿s medical record. Includes: Plan of Care, Nutrition Flowsheets, Education, After Visit Summary and written Handoff.
Develop and conduct in-service classes, community education and other health and nutrition offerings as requested or assigned.
Participate in special projects and committees related to the nutritional care of patients.
Demonstrate professional characteristics and ethics by adhering to department and organizational policy and maintaining up to date knowledge and skills in field of expertise.
Bachelor¿s Degree in Dietetics or related field that meets the requirements of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. This can be acquired through the completion of an Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics approved four year Baccalaureate degree program and an Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics accredited advanced Training program.
Requires a professional level of knowledge of chemistry, physiology, caloric and nutrient values and physical properties of foodstuffs with an understanding of medical nutrition therapy.
Requires the ability to read, write and speak English; use and understand medical terminology;
Strong computer skills and working knowledge of Microsoft Office products.
Requires a relatively high level of interpersonal skills to effectively communicate and work with medical, nursing and other health care professionals, patients, and their families.
Registered Dietitian or Registered Dietitian Nutritionist from the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND).