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Nutrition Support Dietitian - Credentialed

**Department:** Clinical Nutrition

**Location:** Trinity Health

Position Purpose

This position completes nutrition assessments and provides medical nutrition therapy using the nutrition care process in a timely manner, according to Food and Nutrition Services department and hospital policies and regulatory standards. Delivers individualized nutrition care to patients in either the inpatient, senior living, outpatient, clinic and/or contract services while performing within the Scope of Practice per Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Serves as a member of the interdisciplinary care team. Provides nutrition education for the patients, family, medical, and non-medical staff, and community.

**Status available:** contingent

REQUIRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND CERTIFICATION/LICENSURE

Education

Bachelor's degree (B.S.) from four-year college or university. Master’s Degree as required by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (effective Jan. 1, 2024) or bachelor’s degree grandfathered prior to this update.

Licensure / Certification

+ **Minimum:** Dietetic Registration Eligible. Must be able to pass RD examination within one year of date of hire.

+ **Preferred:** Proof of Commission on Dietetic Registration.

Experience

+ One-year full-time professional dietetics experience preferred

Required Skills and Abilities

+ Ability to deal with stressful situations.

+ Displays strong communication skills and ability to interact in a positive manner with physicians, patients, families, and other hospital staff.

+ Ability to work effectively with a diverse, collaborative, and team-oriented culture.

+ Ability to organize workflow and finish tasks in a timely manner with accuracy and consistency.

+ Ability to maintain confidentiality.

+ Must be able to read, speak, and write English with understanding.

+ Ability to understand and use basic keyboarding skills, office-related applications, electronic health records including remote access and menu software systems.

+ A personal presence is characterized by a sense of honesty, integrity, and caring with the ability to inspire and motivate others to promote the philosophy, mission, vision, goals, and values of Trinity Health.

What you will do:

+ Meet hospital, department, and regulatory standards for providing nutrition screening, assessments, and reassessments for assigned units according to established standards and policies.

+ Perform a nutrition-focused physical exam on patients and makes a nutrition diagnosis along with a treatment plan.

+ Use evidence-based practice and clinical judgment to individualize medical nutrition therapy, inclusive of oral, enteral, parenteral interventions based on clinical competency.

+ Document using standardized language from Nutrition Care Process Terminology manual, communicates initiation and progress of care plans.

+ Identify and provide age-specific nutrition care to meet the cultural needs of the patients and their families.

+ Provide education/or counseling to patients, family and/or group setting as per assessed need, request, or consult.

+ Provide nutrition and other related education to Food Service Staff, medical, nursing, dietetic interns and/or allied health as requested by RHM or as assigned by the Clinical Nutrition Leader.

+ Advise FANS department/colleague on patient nutritional care, food allergies, modified diets based on the Nutrition Care Manual.

+ Participate in the promotion of health or provision of nutrition education/information for the community/retail space, in collaboration with FANS leadership or as assigned by the Clinical Nutrition Leader.

+ Complete all required/assigned reports in an accurate and timely manner.

+ Actively participates in department specific and/or hospital wide teams and committees as appropriate such as patient satisfaction, interdisciplinary rounds and quality improvement as appropriate.

+ Keep current on nutrition research and incorporate into daily practice.

Our Commitment

Rooted in our Mission and Core Values, we honor the dignity of every person and recognize the unique perspectives, experiences, and talents each colleague brings. By finding common ground and embracing our differences, we grow stronger together and deliver more compassionate, person-centered care. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.

EOE including disability/veteran