About This Role
This unique position combines the clinical complexity of acute care with the long-term impact of lifestyle medicine. The Registered Dietitian Specialist facilitates the nutrition care process in specialty care areas or specialized populations with a moderate degree of autonomy, using experience-based knowledge, nutrition assessment, and diagnostic reasoning skills and competencies. You will provide evidence-based nutrition care across the continuum, helping patients improve their health through medical nutrition therapy, nutrition support, disease management, and sustainable lifestyle change.
Responsibilities
- Conduct comprehensive nutrition assessments and reassessments
- Utilize the Nutrition Care Process (NCP)
- Diagnose and monitor malnutrition
- Develop and manage enteral and parenteral nutrition support plans
- Provide individualized nutrition education to patients and families
- Collaborate with physicians, nursing, pharmacy, and culinary services
- Participate in quality improvement and evidence-based practice initiatives
- Deliver individualized Medical Nutrition Therapy
- Support patients with chronic disease management and prevention
- Provide nutrition counseling for weight management and metabolic health
- Partner with providers to develop comprehensive care plans
- Utilize evidence-based behavior change strategies
- Conduct in-person and virtual patient visits
- Help patients achieve sustainable lifestyle and wellness goals
Requirements
- Registered Dietitian with the Commission on Dietetic Registration
- Completion of a minimum of a master’s degree by an accredited university (for graduates after Jan 1, 2024)
- 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…
Benefits
- Sign on Bonus: $2500
- Specialty learning pathways
- Free continuing education opportunities
- Clinical mentorship and training
- System-wide committees and improvement projects
- Support for specialty certification development
Important Details
- Schedule: Nine 8-hour weekday shifts every two weeks, no weekends, no holidays, no on-call responsibilities, flexible scheduling options available
About the Company
Park City Hospital is a 37-bed community hospital that offers intensive care, medical/surgical care, labor & delivery, and emergency services. It also has a Lifestyle Medicine & Wellness Clinic.
