Clinical Dietitian

Company Description

Intermountain Health, the largest nonprofit health system in the Mountain West, is dedicated to creating healthier communities and helping patients and caregivers thrive. With a focus on personalized, effective, and affordable healthcare, Intermountain serves patients and communities throughout the Mountain West region in states like Colorado, Utah, Montana, Nevada, Idaho, and Wyoming. The organization includes hospitals, clinics, a medical group, affiliate networks, homecare, telehealth, health insurance plans, and other services.

Posting Details

• Shift: This position works Monday-Friday. As part of the manager role, there may be occasional requests after regular working hours. This position is onsite at Primary Children’s Eccles and Miller campuses and other Primary Children’s locations. Remote work available on a limited basis~20% of time.
• The Primary Children's Outpatient Clinical Nutrition Manager collaborates with various Primary Children's Clinics, disciplines, and outpatient pediatric dietitians across Intermountain Health.
• Full Time 40 hrs/weekly

Essential Functions

• This position reports to a Director Clinical Nutrition and will supervise a combination of supervisors, leads, and frontline caregivers.
• Develops leadership skills in supervisors and leads to ensure both a succession plan and high-functioning department teams.
• The roll-up span of control for this manager role is typically 20 caregivers across multiple departments OR multiple specialty services within a single large facility and requires the ability to effectively lead both advanced clinical nutrition practice and operations, including Infant Feeding Preparation services.
• Facilitates human resource functions (e.g., hiring, staffing, training, mentoring, evaluating, conflict resolution, constructive discipline, termination). 
• Mentors and supports caregivers to ensure all team members understand their roles and accountabilities.
• Directs the provision of complex medical nutrition therapy and the nutrition care process per established system policies and procedures, organization's vision and values, and regulatory requirements. 
• Maintains understanding, competency, and ability to lead complex medical nutrition therapy practice and care such as parenteral and enteral nutrition, transplant, critical care, eating disorder, dialysis, etc.
• Develops and implements multi-facility and/or multi-department strategic plans, initiatives, and goals in alignment with system strategy to improve efficiency and provide quality Medical Nutrition Therapy. 
• Establishes action plans to achieve financial objectives related to benchmarking and productivity.
• Ensures regulatory compliance related to accredited programs, Joint Commission, outpatient billing, etc.
• Directs and implements system initiatives and projects as assigned by Senior Director Clinical Nutrition.

Skills

• Leadership
• Medical Nutrition Therapy
• Communication
• Strategic Planning
• Operations management
• People management
• Financial acumen
• Innovation
• Regulatory compliance

Minimum Qualifications

• Registered Dietitian with the Commission on Dietetic Registration.
• State licensure or certification in accordance with the primary state of practice requirement for Registered Dietitians.  If the primary state of practice requires licensure or certification, this must be obtained within 6 months of hire.
• Demonstrated clinical nutrition experience in a healthcare setting.
• Current expertise in advanced clinical practice and medical nutrition therapy.
• Demonstrated leadership skills including leading people and managing operations.
• Demonstrated highly effective verbal, written, interpersonal, and communication skills.
• Possess excellent customer service skills and ability to foster and promote the delivery of excellent patient and consumer service with proven ability to work effectively with physicians, administration, and clinical staff.

Preferred Qualifications

• Five years of clinical nutrition experience in a healthcare setting.
• Experience with infant feeding preparation and management.
• Demonstrated effective business and financial skills in clinical nutrition management.
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements, accreditation standards, and best practices in clinical nutrition and healthcare quality and patient safety with thorough knowledge of all applicable codes, standards, and regulations such as State, JCAHO, and CDR.
• Continuous improvement experience or certification.
• Specialty certification(s) related to clinical nutrition practice.
• Outpatient pediatric experience, Certified Specialist in Pediatrics or other pediatric-related specialty certification