About the role
The Registered Dietitian contributes and participates as a health care team member to provided needed nutritional counseling service to individuals and families; serves as a nutrition consultant to staff; assist in the development of nutritional educational materials; participates and takes charge of the nutrition component of agency projects.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
- Develops and implements age appropriate, linguistically correct, and culturally sensitive tools for nutritional counseling on both normal and therapeutic diets.
- Assesses patient needs, establishes priorities, designs, develops, recommends, updates, implements and evaluates programs, curriculum, materials, protocol, procedures and standards for nutrition education/health education.
- Conducts Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) upon physical referrals.
- Documents accurately and thoroughly in the Participants’ electronic health record in accordance with industry and departmental standards including time requirements.
- Contributes and assists in the development and periodic updates of the Nutrition EHR templates for charting.
- Implements nutrition care to include follow up and referrals to government, community and/or other NEMS for continuity of nutrition care.
- Develops meal plans as appropriate to meet member’s lifestyle, socio-economic background, age, culture, diagnosis and religious affiliation.
- Develops and maintains Nutrition protocols up to date.
- Establishes relationships with community agencies for patient referrals.
- Assists in the development of handouts on nutritional educational materials.
- Utilizes Epic appropriately and efficiently and serve as content and workflow expert for resolving issues and proposing solutions in Epic.
- Performs home visits as necessary.
- Performs other job duties as required by manager/supervisor.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition or related field. Master’s degree preferred
- Registered Dietitian (RD) in the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics in good standing
- Current BLS and First Aid required
- Proficient in computer usage
Preferred:
- Minimum one year of experience working with a frail and/or older adult.
- 2+ years experience in nutritional assessment, coaching and counseling patients
- 2+ years of work experience as RD in community agencies. Serving a diverse population with different cultural needs preferred
PHYSICAL:
- Occasional ten key typing
- Constant sitting through out an entire work day shift
- Rare occasions of pushing/pulling objects under 10lbs
LANGUAGE:
- Must be able to fluently speak, read and write English.
- Fluency in Chinese (Cantonese) is preferred.
- Fluency in other languages is an asset.
STATUS:
- This is an FLSA Non-exempt position.
- This is not an OSHA high-risk position.
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