Chronic Illness Nutrition Educator

Summary of Position:

The role of the Chronic Illness Patient Educator is to provide interdisciplinary support to the healthcare team to improve health and promote wellness. The Chronic Illness Patient Educator is expected to provide direct 1:1 patient care for diabetic and other chronically ill adult patients, focusing on Diabetes Self-Management Education/Support in addition to Medical Nutrition Therapy to improve health and patient outcomes. The Chronic Illness Patient Educator will facilitate group classes including those for Diabetes Self-Management Education/Support and Weight Management. Collaborating with various community partners for communal education and health promotion is an ongoing process that this role will support. Travel to all Kintegra sites and community events is required to support public needs.

Experience: 3 years of Outpatient Medical Nutrition Therapy and 3 years of Diabetes Self-Management Education/Support, focusing on improving chronic illness/disease prevention.

Education: Bachelor’s Degree or Higher

Certification(s)/Licensure: RD, NC/LD, CDCES, and BLS – Must have valid Driver’s Licenses

Key Responsibilities

• Assess, evaluate, educate, and implement individual health/behavioral plans for improving chronic illness not limited to but including Diabetes Type II, Weight Management, Dyslipidemia, and Hypercholesterolemia
• Document accurately and timely in the Electronic Medical Record
• Possess a basic understanding of billing related to the role of RD/CDE
• Facilitate group classes to meet American Diabetes Association requirements for Kintegra to maintain recognition as an education site
• Provide weight management therapy for adult patients with unhealthy BMI with or without other associated illness
• Provide education to meet communal needs to promote health and identify healthy resources for patients
• Participate in continuous quality improvement
• Maintain patient privacy, adhering to HIPAA laws.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Performance Requirements:

• Must be able to sit and stand for extended periods of time.
• Ability to read, write, and understand the English language.
• Communicate effectively, interacting in a professional manner with a wide range.

of individuals patients, operations staff, physicians, and other department staff.

• Ability to operate electronic medical records, MS Word-Excel, and use other electronic communication such as email.
• Ability to work independently with indirect supervision and autonomy.
• Able to bend and lift to fifty pounds.

Kintegra Health Core Requirements

• Patient First - An approach to care that holds primary, the well-being and desires of the patient.
• Build not Blame - Focusing first on finding fault with the process rather than the person.
• Integrity and Honesty - Fostering an acceptance of openness, honesty, and fairness in words, deeds and the use of organizational resources judiciously for both internal and external customers.
• Cooperation and Flexibility - Related to an internal believe that we function as part of an interdependent team with only shared gains or losses thereby committed to assisting whenever possible beyond the prerequisite job description.
• Culturally Sensitive - Always working toward increasing one's ability to understand, communicate with, effectively interact and care for people across cultures, while having an acute awareness of one's own culture.

Kintegra Health is a community sponsored, family-centered provider of health care, health education and preventive care services without regard to the ability to pay. We screen potential employees to first ensure alignment with our core requirements followed by the requisite position skills set. In doing so we need staff committed to this mission who do their best to live and work the characteristics of our core values as we strive to care for ever increasing members of the communities we serve.

Our goals are:

• To provide continuing comprehensive and accessible primary care services to individuals and families of all economic levels within Kintegra communities.
• To provide primary care services to meet the physical as well as social health needs of individuals and families, promoting health maintenance, providing timely diagnostics, treatment and referral services.
• To emphasize preventive care through patient and community education to help individuals become aware and responsible for their own health behaviors.
• To employ an interdisciplinary team approach in collaboration with other community providers to provide a continuum of appropriate patient/family-oriented care in a cost-effective manner.