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Purpose:

Serve as an expert in the use of food and nutrition to promote health and manage disease.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assess nutritional needs, diet restrictions, and current health plans to develop and implement dietary-care plans and provide nutritional counseling.
• Approve patient menus and nutritional supplements.
• Advise patients and their families on nutritional principles, dietary plans, diet modifications, and food selection and preparation.
• Provide nutritional assessments per facility policy and regulation.
• Review and approve menus developed by the facility.
• Counsel individuals and groups on basic rules of good nutrition, healthy eating habits, and nutrition monitoring to improve their quality of life.
• Consult with physicians and healthcare personnel to determine nutritional needs and diet restrictions of patients.
• Participate in treatment teams as appropriate.
• Review and approve facility diet manuals annually in conjunction with medical staff.
• Promote better health by speaking to groups about diet, nutrition, and the relationship between good eating habits and preventing or managing specific diseases.
• Monitor food service operations to ensure conformance to nutritional, safety, sanitation, and quality standards as needed.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university in Dietetics, Nutrition, or a similar field acceptable for licensure.
• Experience with Eating Disorders and Substance Abuse strongly preferred in facilities working with those patient populations.
• Current registered dietician or registration as required by state or eligible for endorsement by the state in which the facility provides services.
• ServSafe certification or similar food safety certification where required by the state or facility.