Dietician

PALM Health; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

$10,000 sign‑on bonus

Full benefits including health and dental

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

PALM Health in Phoenix, Arizona is looking for a Registered Dietitian to assess and manage patients’ nutritional needs. You will formulate care plans, counsel patients, and ensure compliance with dietary standards.

The ideal candidate will hold a Bachelor’s degree and maintain dietetic registration, offering collaboration with other medical professionals to improve patient outcomes. A $10,000 sign-on bonus and full benefits are available for this full-time role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in nutrition required.
• Must maintain dietetic registration.
• Continuing education units necessary for job performance.

Responsibilities

• Formulate and implement nutritional care plans for patients.
• Monitor and evaluate patient care plans and document information.
• Counsel on nutritional support to patients and families.
• Collaborate with medical and nursing staff on patient care.
• Ensure foodservice compliance with diet orders and standards.
• Coordinate clinical nutrition with telemedicine services.

Skills

Nutritional assessment

Patient education

Collaboration with medical staff

Foodservice operations monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Nutrition

Job description

Position Overview

Responsible for assessing patients’ nutritional status and intervening with appropriate medical nutrition therapy (MNT) and/or education to improve, maintain, or optimize nutritional status.

Schedule: Full-time days; no weekends.

Job Responsibilities

• Formulate and implement nutritional care plans based on assessment of patients’ nutritional needs, diet restrictions, nutrition support and physician care plans. Each RD will be able to manage a minimum of 12 patients daily.
• Monitor and evaluate effectiveness of patient care plans. Document thoroughly and appropriately all nutrition care information in patient medical record.
• Counsel and educate on nutritional support and nutritional management to patients and their families, physicians, paraprofessionals, the community and potential candidates for hire within the corporation.
• Collaborate with medical staff, nursing, pharmacy, and other hospital stakeholders to plan and implement patient care as necessary in meeting the nutritional needs of patients.
• Monitor foodservice operations to ensure compliance with physician diet orders and quality standards.
• Integrate food and dietetic services into hospital-wide QAPI and infection control programs.
• Responsible for clinical nutrition and nutrition support in coordination with the use of Telemedicine and other nutritional services for patient care needs internally and externally as needed.

Job Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree, prepared RD/RDN.
• Licensure: Maintenance of dietetic registration.
• Training: Continuing education units (CEU) credentials and continual knowledge updates pertinent to job performance.

Benefits and Incentives

$10,000.00 sign‑on bonus available.

Salary is experience driven.

Full benefits, dental, health, financial and professional development.