Clinical Dietitian

Saint Joseph Hospital - London; London (KY); On-site; USD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

CommonSpirit Health's Saint Joseph London location is seeking a Clinical Dietitian to deliver expert nutrition care, covering Saint Joseph London for 3 full work days and Saint Joseph Berea for 2 half days weekly. You will develop personalized care plans and clearly communicate nutrition data across systems and teams.

Responsibilities include nutritional assessments, targeted interventions, patient education, monitoring progress, and collaborating with Food and Nutrition Services to ensure diet

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from ACEND‑accredited program.
• Registered Dietitian credential within 90 days of hire.
• Knowledge of medical nutrition therapy and patient education.

Responsibilities

• Perform nutritional assessments using appropriate standards and identify nutrition risk.
• Develop and implement individualized nutrition interventions and care plans.
• Monitor and re-evaluate patient nutrition status and adjust care as needed.
• Collaborate with Food and Nutrition Services to support patient meals and menu accuracy.
• Participate in peer reviews and Diet Manual Handbook trainings.

Skills

Nutritional assessment

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Nutrition education

Care plan development

Communication with patients

Education

Bachelor's degree in Dietetics

Registered Dietitian (RD)

Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

This position includes covering Saint Joseph London for 3 full work days (8:00am-4:30pm) as well as Saint Joseph Hospital-Berea for 2 half days per week (8:00am-12:00pm).

As a Clinical Dietitian, you will provide expert nutrition care, developing and implementing individualized plans to improve patient health outcomes. Every day you will clearly communicate nutritional data across all systems and participate in health team meetings as the resident nutrition expert. To be successful in this role, you will integrate robust clinical expertise with empathetic, evidence-based care, consistently adhering to professional standards and fostering effective communication with patients and healthcare teams.

• Performs nutritional assessment using age and gender appropriate standards, cultural, religious and ethnic backgrounds; and utilizing validated assessment tools resulting in nutrition-related diagnosis when indicated. Conducts routine screening to identify patients at nutritional risk. Collaborates within an interdisciplinary environment to contribute to facilitating care and identifying patients at nutrition risk or needing higher levels of care.
• Implements targeted and specific nutrition intervention(s). Provides customized nutrition education to patients and/or families and caregivers. Works within an interdisciplinary environment to contribute toward overall patient care. Closely monitors, evaluates and rescreens patient nutrition status as appropriate. Updates plan of care as necessary. Follow up with patients as needed.
• Develops an intervention plan which includes appropriate feeding route, mode, and nutrition prescription unique to patient's specific needs, in accordance with physicians' orders. Monitors and evaluates patient response to interventions by meeting specific measurable goals documented in the nutrition care plan in a timely and thorough manner in the medical record.
• Collaborates with the Food and Nutrition Services team to enhance patient experience. This includes participating in test trays, menu reviews, periodic auditing of trayline for accuracy of diet orders, validating menu compliance with the facility Diet Manual Handbook and Nutrition Care Manual (NCM), supporting with patient interactive positions (i.e. dietitians, diet clerks, interns, etc.), maintaining communication with patients, staff, and guests and providing excellent customer service. Participates in peer reviews and chart audits, and collaborates in Diet Manual Handbook training for all clinical staff (new registered dietitians, nurses, therapists, physicians, etc.), including how to access it in hard and soft copy.

Job Requirements

Required

• Bachelors Other completion of accredited dietetics program (ACEND - Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics)., upon hire
• Registered Dietician, within 90 Days or
• Registered Dietitian ADA, within 90 Days or
• Registered Dietitian AND, within 90 Days or
• Registered Dietitian CDR, within 90 Days and
• Dietitian: KY, within 90 Days

Where You'll Work

Welcome to Saint Joseph London, a 150-bed regional hospital founded in 1926. Located on a 52 acre healing environment, Saint Joseph London offers private patient rooms that overlook a small lake and healing garden and has been recognized as a Best Place to Work in Kentucky for five years in a row (2020-2024).

CHI Health Saint Joseph is part of CommonSpirit Health, a non-profit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. With approximately 175,000 team members and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians.

Our commitment to serve the common good is delivered through the dedicated work of thousands of physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, and staff; through clinical excellence delivered across a system of 140 hospitals and more than 2,200 care centers serving 24 states.