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Form of workSanitas is a global healthcare organization expanding across United States. Our services include primary care, urgent care, nutrition, lab, diagnostic, health care education and resources for our patients. We strive to attract professionals who believe in our mission, vision and are dedicated to the service of our patients and their families creating a memorable experience through compassion, respect, and kindness.
QualificationsPosition Summary
The Dietitian helps promote healthy eating and lifestyle to prevent and treat illness through supervision of dietary modifications and patient eating habit education.
Essential Job FunctionsReasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Provides medical nutrition therapy including nutrition assessment, diet modification, nutrition education, and intervention for the patient population
- Evaluate potential food/drug interactions, and/or medication and nutrient deficiencies. Provide nutrition education/counseling as appropriate.
- Follow all guidelines as outlined within the Nutrition Policies & Procedures Manual
- Keep current with nutritional practices and theories
- Actively participate in bi-weekly team meetings
- Comply with all regulatory standards to include federal, state, and accrediting agencies while adhering to facility confidentiality, HIPPA regulations, and patient rights policies
- Educate other healthcare professionals about food and nutrition as applicable
- Participate in health promotion events in medical facility and other community settings
- Consistently report for duty on time
- Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor
- Acts in a respectful manner and supports the team by demonstrating a commitment to professional and ethical conduct
- Demonstrates commitment to service excellence by promptly addressing internal/external customer issues/requests, resolving concerns while maintaining a professional image and behavior to build and enhance the patient/family/customer experience
- Accepts ownership of job roles and specific assignments/goals; works independently, and accepts constructive feedback.
- Accepts change and adapts in a positive and productive manner; handles unexpected situations and changes in direction calmly and with confidence. Views new assignments and job responsibilities as an opportunity for growth.
- Accepts working flexible schedules and locations if necessary
This position has no supervisory responsibilities.
Physical DemandsThe physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to work standing up, walk, use hands to operate tools and equipment and must be able to exert regularly up to 10 pounds of force, frequently exert 30 pounds of force and occasionally exert 50 pounds of force to constantly perform the essential job functions. The employee will be frequently required to reach with hands and arms, bend, balance, kneel, crouch, crawl, push, and pull. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. The employee is subject to environmental conditions, protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. The worker is subject to noise; there may be sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above ambient noise level.
Required Education and Experience- Bachelors degree from an accredited program through ACEND, Graduate degree preferred
- Registered Dietitian with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR)
- Licensed in the state of employment as Dietitian/Nutritionist, if applicable; or willing to obtain license upon hire
- Minimum 2 year experience working as a Registered Dietitian, ideally in the field of diabetes and/or metabolic disorders
