Registered Dietitian

About This Role

This full-time role involves facilitating the nutrition care process to provide individuals with quality medical nutrition therapy for common disease states or to promote optimal wellness. The position can be hired as a Registered Dietitian Clinical or Registered Dietitian Clinical Specialist based on the selected candidate's qualifications and experience.

Responsibilities

• Complete and document nutrition assessment
• Assess and interpret nutrition-related lab values
• Identify and document nutrition diagnosis
• Identify and implement appropriate nutrition interventions including quality nutrition education based on customer needs, expectations, and culture
• Monitor and evaluate individual nutrition outcomes related to nutrition diagnosis, goals, and interventions
• Communicate nutrition expertise with all appropriate healthcare providers
• Collaborate with other dietitians including referring patients to specialty-trained dietitians as appropriate
• Support nutrition care across the healthcare continuum
• Participate in department continuous improvement projects
• Registered Dietitian Nutritionist order writing privileges per policy/protocol

Requirements

• Registered Dietitian with the Commission on Dietetic Registration or registration eligible. If hired in registration eligible status, employee must successfully pass the Registered Dietitian credentialing exam within 6 months of hire to remain in the job
• For registration eligible graduates after Jan 1, 2024, completion of a minimum of a master’s degree by an accredited university. Education is verified
• 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

For Registered Dietitian Clinical Specialist:

• Registered Dietitian with the Commission on Dietetic Registration
• For graduates after Jan 1, 2024, completion of a minimum of a master’s degree by an accredited university. Education is verified
• 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

Nice to have:

• Experience in clinical dietetics (for Registered Dietitian Clinical)
• 2 or more years of dietetics experience in a clinical setting (for Registered Dietitian Clinical Specialist)
• Experience in managing patients in a specialty area (for Registered Dietitian Clinical Specialist)
• Relevant dietetics-related specialty practice credential (CNSC, CSP, CDCES, CSO, CSR, CSOWM, etc.) (for Registered Dietitian Clinical Specialist)

Benefits

• $2500 sign-on bonus
• Generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged

Important Details

• Schedule: 40 hours per week, no weekends, holidays, evenings, graves, or on-call shifts
• Locations: two days at Bear River Family Medicine clinic and two days at South Cache Family Medicine Clinic

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

About the Company

Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. At Intermountain Health, the artificial intelligence ("AI") platform, HiredScore, is used to improve the job application experience by matching skills and experiences to the best jobs.