Dietitian/Clinical Nutrionist

Fortis Healthcare; Chennai District; On-site; INR 450,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortis Healthcare Limited is seeking a Dietitian/Clinical Nutritionist with a minimum of 2 years of experience. The role focuses on counseling patients, assessing nutritional needs, and developing dietary plans within a clinical setting.

The incumbent will collaborate with physicians, monitor nutritional standards, and contribute to education through training programs for medical staff and students.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience is essential.

Responsibilities

• Counsel individuals and groups on nutrition to improve quality of life.
• Assess nutritional needs and develop dietary-care plans with counselling.
• Advise patients and families on dietary plans and food choices.
• Monitor food service operations for nutritional and safety standards.
• Plan and conduct training programs in dietetics, nutrition and administration.

Job description

Job Role: Dietitian/Clinical Nutritionist

Status: Full Time

CTC: Negotiable

Experience: Minimum 2 years of relevant experience is essential.

Job Tasks:

• Counsel individuals and groups on basic rules of good nutrition, healthy eating habits, and nutrition monitoring to improve their quality of life.
• Assess nutritional needs, diet restrictions and current health plans to develop and implement dietary-care plans and provide nutritional counselling.
• Advise patients and their families on nutritional principles, dietary plans and diet modifications, and food selection and preparation.
• Consult with physicians and health care personnel to determine nutritional needs and diet restrictions of patient or client.
• Monitor food service operations to ensure conformance to nutritional, safety, sanitation and quality standards.
• Organize, develop, analyze, test, and prepare special meals such as low-fat, low-cholesterol and chemical-free meals.
• Develop curriculum and prepare manuals, visual aids, course outlines, and other materials used in teaching.
• Make recommendations regarding public policy, such as nutrition labelling, food fortification, and nutrition standards.
• Purchase food in accordance with health and safety codes.
• Plan and conduct training programs in dietetics, nutrition, and institutional management and administration for medical students, health-care personnel and the general public.
• Plan, conduct, and evaluate dietary, nutritional, and epidemiological research.
• Select, train and supervise workers who plan, prepare and serve meals.
• Manage quantity food service departments or clinical and community nutrition services.
• Develop policies for food service or nutritional programs to assist in health promotion and disease control.
• Inspect meals served for conformance to prescribed diets and standards of palatability and appearance.
• Write research reports and other publications to document and communicate research findings.
• Coordinate recipe development and standardization and develop new menus for independent food service operations.
• Prepare and administer budgets for food, equipment and supplies.
• Test new food products and equipment.

KEY ACTIVITIES:

• Data Gathering, analysing and Maintaining.
• Communicating with supervisors or subordinates and also people outside the organization.
• Training and teaching skills.
• Interpreting the meaning of information.
• Decision making and Problem solving.
• Basic computer Knowledge.

Process of Selection:

Primary Screening.
Telephonic Round.
Written/Interview(subject to change).

Company Profile:

Fortis Healthcare Limited is committed to clinical excellence and patient-centric healthcare, which is manifest in hospital design, patient services, medical programmes and the compassionate approach of medical and non-medical hospital staff. Fortis commissioned its first hospital in 2001 at Mohali, near Chandigarh, and has expanded its operations to become a network with an over 10,000 bed capacity across 68 hospitals