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Job Description:
The Registered Dietitian Specialist facilitates the nutrition care process in specialty care areas or specialized populations with a moderate degree of autonomy, using experience-based knowledge, nutrition assessment, and diagnostic reasoning skills and competencies.
Posting Details
- Shift: Outpatient position working Monday-Friday, no evening/grave shifts, recognized holidays off with PTO as this is an exempt role, not remote but some charting or education can be completed at home in special situations.
- Department: Clinical Nutrition, part of Park City Hospital Lifestyle Medicine and Wellness Clinic, located in a rural setting with a rural pay differential.
- Full Time 36 hrs/weekly
Essential Functions
- Provides Medical Nutrition Therapy to individuals with specialized health conditions and/or in specialized populations.
- Uses the Nutrition Care Process to facilitate the provision of more complex nutrition care with moderate autonomy and supportive guidance from advanced practice dietitians.
- Uses advanced counseling techniques to influence behavior change.
- Uses technology in estimating needs and nutrition goals (ex: indirect calorimetry, nutrient analysis software, glucometers, etc.).
- Mentors newly graduated dietitians, dietetic interns, and clinical diet techs.
- Applies research to improve patient outcomes. Implements the latest evidence-based care with the interdisciplinary team and in updating care practices/processes within the facility.
- Manages nutrition care across the continuum including durable medical equipment order writing.
- Registered Dietitian Nutritionist order writing privileges per policy/protocol.
Skills
- Specialty Medical Nutrition Therapy
- Complex Problem Solving
- Advanced Counseling Techniques
- Nutrition Focused Physical Exam
- Nutrition Related Technology Proficiency
- Research Study Interpretation
- Mentoring
- Professional Communication
Qualifications
- Registered Dietitian with the Commission on Dietetic Registration.
- Completion of an ACEND accredited Didactic Program in Dietetics, Dietetic Internship, Coordinated Program, or graduate-level competency-based dietitian nutritionist program.
- 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 ability to apply the Nutrition Care Process in multiple patient populations and/or disease types.
- Demonstrated ability to interpret and apply evidence-based research to clinical practice.
- 2 or more years of dietetics experience in a clinical setting, preferred.
- Experience in managing patients in a specialty area, preferred.
- Relevant dietetics-related specialty practice credential (CNSC, CSP, CDCES, CSO, CSR, CSOWM, etc.), preferred
Physical Requirements
Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc.
For roles requiring driving: Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.
Salary : $31 - $48
