Dietician Job Description
Dietician
provides medical nutrition therapy and nutrition education on various diets as ordered to patients, families, and other staff members.
Dietician Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective dietician job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included dietician job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Coordinate and host a monthly diabetes support group and monthly DSME group education classes
Work in concert with Endocrinologist in providing patient care including download of meters
Provide assistance to the clinic (patient intake)
Develop nutritional plans and assessments for clients suffering from chronic physical illnesses
Work with adult population suffering from HIV and substance abuse
Work on electronic health records
Monitor TPNs
Provide tube feedings for patients
Educate patient and families on medical procedures
Document nutrition assessment, diagnosis, intervention, monitoring and evaluation/plan summary per encounter in the electronic medical record
Dietician Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Dietician
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPR, BLS, AED, RDN, RD, CDR, ACLS, NYS, DSME/T
Education for Dietician
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the dietician job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Nutrition, Dietetics, Education, Food and Nutrition, Science, Nutrition and Dietetics, Medical, Management, Health, Counseling
Skills for Dietician
Desired skills for dietician include:
Mainframe and personal computing systems
Nutrition Assessment Principles & techniques of education
Therapeutic/Modified Diets and their applications
Behavior change
Adult learning theory
Customer service
Departmental forms
Flow charts
Geriatric nutrition
Hazards of oxygen therapy
Desired experience for dietician includes:
Maintain complete chart notes
Conduct group sessions for weight management and diabetes self-management education
Create patient education materials including meal and snack ideas, recipes, etc to be added to group's standard of practice
Participate in community outreach events/health fairs as needed
Coordinate with the interdisciplinary team and develop a plan of care for the patient
Perform individual personalized nutrition and wellness assessments
Dietician Examples
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Dietician Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a dietician. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for dietician
- Implement menu plans reflecting most current USDA guidelines for healthy eating for all residential facilities
- Develop standardized food shopping lists for residential staff based on menu plans
- Provide nutrition training and education for residential staff addressing issues of food safety, balanced meal planning and healthy snack alternatives any special diets that residents may require
- Make routine site visits to residential facilities and review kitchens to ensure all dietary guidelines are followed
- Provide one-on-one nutritional counseling for residents or counseling to staff and management depending on the individual’s level of functioning
- Conduct cooking demonstrations and cooking exercises with staff when possible
- Available to staff for consultation and offering assistance with staff nutrition education programs as requested
- Works closely with Executive chef on all aspects of patient and retail menus
- Formulates menus for therapeutic diets based on medical and physical condition of out-patients and integrates patient's menus with basic institutional menus
- Inspects meals served for standards of palette ability and appearance
Qualifications for dietician
- Bachelor’s degree in food and nutrition, food service management or related area
- Successful completion of a dietetic internship accredited by the American Dietetic Association or equivalent
- Current Registration by the American Dietetic Association (RD) and Texas Dietitian License (LD)
- Instructs out-patients and their families in nutritional principles, dietary plans, food selection, and preparation
- Will be responsible for creating nutritional awareness through communications and promotions in the retail café
- Will be instrumental in working with culinary staff on ways of providing a variety of traditional foods
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Our company is looking to fill the role of dietician. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for dietician
- Receives training and orientation on survey tasks and protocols, organizational operating procedures and laws and regulations pertaining to onsite inspections of long term care providers or suppliers to determine compliance
- Travels to health care facilities to participate in, and/or conduct under supervision, onsite inspections of health care providers to determine compliance
- Learns to use computer-assisted QIS process in conducting & documenting surveys
- Analyzes data collected during the survey process and prepares specialized reports
- Under supervision, participates in onsite surveys as part of a survey team
- Reviews and discusses survey findings with facility officials
- Participates in exit interview meetings with facility staff
- Drafts letters in response to problems and questions regarding the survey process
- Reviews plans of correction for deficiencies
- Operates a laptop computer to prepare survey reports in accordance with applicable procedures and protocols
Qualifications for dietician
- At least a four-year degree supplemented with additional post-collegiate training
- Certification from a nationally recognized dietary organization
- An intern preparing for exams will be considered
- Deliver and direct nutritional care and services for members in collaboration with Care Management Team (CMT) offering nutritional counseling and education
- Evaluate members' nutritional status utilizing various assessment tools and obtains primary care physician's orders as required
- Calculate nutrient intake integrating the nutrition treatment plan into the overall care plan
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Dietician Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of dietician. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for dietician
- Collaborate with Care Management Teams through daily communication and team meetings to develop an optimal plan of care for member(s)
- Approve, deny, terminate, or reduce services (nutritional supplements) appropriately
- Based on reporting and outcomes, implement and manage a “continuous quality improvement
- Conduct nutritional assessments in the EMR
- Accurately completing the MDS assessments in a timely manner
- Providing comprehensive interdisciplinary care plan for each resident in computerized system
- Interview patients and assess/evaluate their nutritional status
- Determine patients' dietary needs and advise patients' physicians and/or nursing personnel of needs
- Confer with patients' physicians to establish dietary treatments and requirements
- Prepare and calculate therapeutic diets to meet the specific requirements of patients
Qualifications for dietician
- Must have demonstrated competence and satisfactory performance with nutrition assessment and counseling
- Technical experience managing patient health information (PHI) in a database module and archival system
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Word (documenting, writing procedures, recommendations)
- Prefer dietitian with renal experience as this candidate will primarily be providing support in the Peritoneal Dialysis and CKD Clinic
- Registered Dietitian in NJ, Licensed in PA a plus
- Previous homecare a plus
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a dietician. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for dietician
- Observe patients' responses to dietary treatment, note changes in their condition, and advise physicians, Nurse Supervisors and/or Clinical Coordinators
- Participate in case conferences, and act as a resource to other health team members as requested
- Maintain and submit paperwork/documentation as required by the Company and/or facility
- Ensure the confidentiality of patients' files and documentation
- To act as a specialist source of dietetic expertise on patient nutrition
- Calculate nutritional values for proposed patient menus and ensure that the introduction of new items meet with the approval of the Trust dietetic team
- To ensure menu changes meet the specification of the Trust and MITIE’s catering team
- Prepare information packs, flyers and other promotional materials
- Lead on staff and visitor dining menu choices and promote healthy eating and hydration
- Support the Catering team to positively promote nutrition and hydration through marketing initiatives
Qualifications for dietician
- Previous experience with Home Care preferred
- Graduate of an accredited degree program in Food and Nutrition
- Profound knowledge of clinical dietetics and weight management practices
- Degree in Nutrition or the equivalent
- Minimum of six months related experience
- Current Registered Dietician licensure/certification as necessary in the state(s) of practice
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Job Description Example
Our company is looking for a dietician. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for dietician
- Attends and participates in approved scheduled meetings and trainings with divisional or corporate leaders via conference call, in person or via other media
- In-store dietitians must be flexible to work weekends and evening and holiday schedules to meet patient and customers and store needs
- Teach patients, family and care providers principles of the nutrition plan, counseling and supporting patients and clients as needed, taking into account individual patients‘ special physical or age-related needs
- Strong knowledge of nutrition and food composition data including the Health Star Rating system, the Australian food supply, including market share
- Strong data and database management skills to generate client and internal reports
- Strong skills in analysis and interpretation of nutrition and product data, to deliver on a suite of deliverables requiring in-depth data modelling
- Familiarity with Australian food industry, food supply and food regulations
- Demonstrated conceptual and practical knowledge of human nutrition and the role of foods and food constituents in promoting health and chronic disease risk
- Demonstrated ability to manage highly complex and multi-faceted projects to deliver all contract deliverables on time and within budget to date
- A relevant Bachelors/Masters Degree &/or equivalent experience in Nutrition and Dietetics
Qualifications for dietician
- Graduate from an accredited college or University with a Bachelor degree in Dietetics and Nutrition
- Pre-RD may be considered as written above
- Associate’s degree from an accredited college with a major in food and nutrition is required
- Knowledge of therapeutic approaches and principles of Medical Nutrition Therapy and ability to plan, develop and deliver nutritional interventions provide individualized dietary consultations
- Knowledge of and ability to assess patients and develop and implement a treatment plan
- Knowledge of education concepts and techniques