About This Role
Caring for patients at Wayne UNC Health Care in Goldsboro, NC, this Clinical Nutrition Manager position involves both direct patient care and clinical management. The role is for a Registered Dietitian who can provide 50% direct patient care and 50% clinical management, with the added flexibility of one remote workday per week.
Responsibilities
- Manage the clinical nutrition program
- Supervise 3 full-time Clinical Dietitians and 1 Outpatient Dietitian
- Provide direct nutritional care on a variety of inpatient units 50% of the time
- Maintain responsibility for comprehensive nutrition assessments/reassessments, intervention including nutrition support, education, and counseling of acute care patients per the Nutrition Care Process model
- Drive and conduct Performance Improvement and Quality Management initiatives
- Provide diet education/training to the food service team, as well as interdisciplinary healthcare professionals
- Serve in a leadership role on the Food and Nutrition Services team
- Assist in food service management as needed and food service quality assurance
- Perform weekend rotation to include clinical and management on duty responsibilities
- Assist in maintaining Sodexo standards as well as the preparation and readiness for accreditation and regulatory visits
Requirements
- Be a Registered Dietitian in NC with acute care experience and strong clinical knowledge base
- Proven supervisory or management experience
- Excellent communication, leadership and customer service skills
- Experience with regulatory accreditation and establishing and maintaining standards of care
- Strong commitment to excellence in all aspects of patient care
- Master's degree with completion of required coursework and supervised practice as dictated by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND) OR Bachelor's degree with completion of required coursework and supervised practice as dictated by ACEND (for those eligible for the registration exam prior to 1/1/24)
- Meets eligibility requirements for Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RD/RDN) by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) and will become registered within 120 days of hire (in some states and/or facilities the RD/RDN credentials is required at the time of hire)
- Certification/licensure as required by state(s) of practice (in some states and/or facilities state certification/licensure is required at the time of hire)
- At least 13 months experience supervising and directing people and other resources to achieve specific end results within limited timeframes
- 3 years as experienced practitioner able to work unsupervised and provide professional supervision to developing practitioners
