Registered Dietitian

Job Description

Job Description

Overview :

Work in this class involves providing comprehensive, complex nutrition and health education services to patients with a variety of medical / nutritional problems. Employees have a thorough knowledge of disease pathophysiology in relation to nutritional theories and practices. Employees deal with acute, chronic, and terminally ill clients / patients who are characterized as medical high risk. Employees participate in developing clinic flow, patient referral criteria, operation standards, and procedures. Employees will serve as a technical resource and provide training to other staff. Work may include other related assignments as determined by the management. Employees report to the Program Management Team.

Employees receive complex, critical referrals, requiring independent analysis of clients’ medical condition, researching nutritional requirements of the respective medical problems, and creation of a treatment plan in concert with an interdisciplinary team approach. Employees may provide technical consultation and training to clinicians in developing the nutrition component of the care plan. Employees interpret medical and laboratory information and discuss hospital referred treatment plans, interpreting their application to the home environment.

Guidelines include standardized assessments, professional reference materials, nutritional program reference manuals, medical reference, and professional standards. Employees must independently apply these guidelines, program goals, and standards or seek advice from either a higher lever nutritionist or the program management team.

Essential Duties :

• Support medical staff in addressing nutrition and weight issues with all patients
• Counsel interested patients / families in healthy food choices and physical activity
• Maintain database of patients counseled
• Plan patient care independently or in concert with an interdisciplinary team.
• Meeting objectives and goals as directed by your supervisors.
• Help program management develop resources (handouts, newsletters, demonstrations and other teaching tools) and forms as assigned and directed.
• Meet with staff to review program and revise process.
• Communicate regularly with providers on all their patients / families enrolled in program
• Provide consultative service to school nurses, fitness program staff and other change agents.
• Assists with special research projects; gathers comprehensive health education data and statistics; and makes proposals as needed based on these and trends in the health education field.
• innovations.
• Provides oversight for the Fun Fitness program at the designated location.
• Represents the agency at community organizations; serves as a speaker before public groups, private organizations, and the general public as needed.
• Performs related duties as required.
• Travel as needed.

Minimum Qualifications :

Registered Dietitian

Masters Degree with two year’s work experience.

Proficient in Microsoft Office

Current NC Driver’s License