Supervisory Dietician

This position will serve as a Supervisory Dietitian within the Nutrition & Food Service. Duties include, but are not limited to:
Provides clinical nutrition section specific leadership serving as professional and technical advisor to staff and other health care professionals.
Has oversight over HR staffing, employee relations and labor relations in Clinical Nutrition section.
Exercises a full range of supervisory and personnel management authorities and assumes full responsibility in planning, directing, and assessing work of subordinate staff.
Establishes a training plan for the clinical section that is based on evidence based nutrition.
Develops and leads clinical nutrition operations.
Establishes strategic goals and ensure priorities align with the strategic plan of the NFS department, VISN and national programs.
Leads performance improvement efforts within Clinical Nutrition section, acting on quality improvement data and plans.
Identifies and prioritizes problems, sets long and short-term goals, develops action plans and analyses data to evaluate progress to improve outcomes.
Develops and updates policies and procedures and the establishment and oversight of a system for regulatory compliance.
Solicits support and/or negotiate with facility managers to influence decision making and garner support to ensure clinical nutrition operations are a success.
Collaborates closely with the supervisory dietitians to cover the work in all NFS and execute the activities of the department.
May perform other related duties as assigned which are appropriate for this grade and assignment.

Work Schedule
: Monday-Friday, 7:30am - 4:00pm


Telework
: Ad-hoc


Virtual:
This is not a virtual position.


Functional Statement #
: 99517-S


Relocation/Recruitment Incentives
: Authorized


Permanent Change of Station (PCS):
Not Authorized


PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO):
Not Authorized


Fi
nancial Disclosure Report:
Not required




NOTIFICATIONS:

This position is in the Excepted Service.
This position is not a Bargaining Unit position.
This position is covered by locality-based comparability pay.
The incumbent may be required to travel to other VA campuses and CBOC's.
Selectee may be required to work at any VA Maine Healthcare System campus, as needed.
Current and former Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50, (Notice of Personnel Action). The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). In some cases, more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held.
Narrative responses to the knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) may be required from the selectee in order to proceed with the appointment.