Clinical Dietitian I

CommonSpirit Health; Woodland (CA); On-site; USD 54,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Dignity Health Woodland Memorial Hospital is seeking a Clinical Dietitian to deliver expert nutrition care, develop individualized care plans, and improve patient health outcomes. You will communicate nutritional data across systems and participate in health team meetings as the nutrition expert.

Responsibilities include thorough nutrition assessments, delivering tailored interventions, and collaborating with the food service team to ensure diet orders are accurate and patient care is optimal.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in an ACEND-accredited dietetics program.
• Registered Dietitian certification with 90 days or less to achieve licensure/credentialing.
• Background in clinical nutrition care and planning.

Responsibilities

• Performs comprehensive nutritional assessments using age and cultural considerations; identifies nutrition risk.
• Provides targeted nutrition interventions and education to patients and families; updates care plans.
• Develops feeding plans and prescriptions per physician orders; monitors response and documents in the medical record.
• Collaborates with Food and Nutrition Services and healthcare teams to ensure diet order accuracy and patient experience.
• Participates in peer reviews, chart audits, and training for clinical staff to access Diet Manual Handbook.

Skills

Dietetics degree

Registered Dietitian

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Education

ACEND-accredited program

Job description

*Job Summary and Responsibilities*

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).
• 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

Where You'll Work

Dignity Health Woodland Memorial Hospital is Yolo County’s largest health care provider, serving the community since 1905. Woodland Memorial Hospital is a 108-bed acute care facility offering the most comprehensive range of health care services in Yolo County, including inpatient and outpatient surgical services, family birth center/labor and delivery, emergency services, home health services, palliative care, inpatient mental health services, sleep disorders center and cancer care services. With strong ties to our community, we believe in providing compassionate, high-quality health care to you and your family, close to home. Woodland Memorial Hospital is part of Dignity Health, one of the nation’s largest health care systems with a 22-state network. For more information, please visit our website [here ](http://www.dignityhealth.org/woodland)at www.dignityhealth.org/woodland.

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*Pay Range*

$39.18 - $58.28 /hour