Dietitian - DDCI | 1.0 FT

LE01 Phelps County Regional Medical Center; United States; On-site; USD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Phelps Health is a major healthcare system dedicated to delivering life-saving care and supporting growth. The Clinical Dietitian provides nutrition therapy to support cancer treatments, aiming to optimize immune function, improve strength, and preserve lean body mass.

The role requires patient centricity, teamwork, compassion, and flexibility, with collaboration across a multidisciplinary team and participation in quality improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Nutrition required.
• Licensed registered dietitian in Missouri required.
• One year clinical dietitian internship required.

Responsibilities

• Implements nutrition screening for cancer patients and formulates care plans.
• Provides nutrition education for patients, community, and staff.
• Collaborates with healthcare professionals to identify patients at risk.
• Delivers client-centered nutrition interventions and follows up with the team.
• Attends multidisciplinary rounds for cancer patients.
• Communicates issues to the Director and participates in quality studies.
• Assists with administration and development of nutrition policies.

Skills

Nutrition therapy

Team work

Patient education

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Nutrition

Clinical dietitian internship

Job description

Phelps Health is a 2000-employee-strong hospital and healthcare system serving the heart of small-town Missouri. No matter where you start with us, we're committed to taking our team to the top. If you're ready for the challenge of providing life-saving care or supporting those who do, read on to find your fit in the Phelps Health family.

General Summary

The Clinical Dietitian provides nutrition therapy to support conventional cancer treatments to help optimize immune function, improve strength, increase energy, preserve lean body cell mass, rebuild body tissue, decrease risk of infection, and help minimize breaks in treatment. This position requires a high level of patient centricity, team work, flexibility, and compassion.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Implements nutrition screening system for cancer patients undergoing active treatment, assessing patient nutritional status and formulating nutrition care plans to make recommendations to physician and/or multi-disciplinary team.
• Provides nutritional education for patients, community, and staff to ensure comprehension, tailoring counseling and nutrition recommendations to patients' specific therapies and nutrition needs.
• Collaborates with other health-care professionals to ensure nutrition screening mechanism is consistently identifying patients at risk.
• Provides nutrition interventions in a proactive manner that may include assessment (considering diagnosis, treatment, other co-morbidities, diet history, physical examination, laboratory data, medications, clinical symptoms, and psychosocial, cultural and educational factors affecting nutritional status), client-centered goals, appropriate follow-up and communication with interdisciplinary team members.
• Attends and contributes to multidisciplinary team patient-care rounds for DDCI cancer patients.
• Notifies the Director of any problems related to patient feeding, supplemental and tube feeding needs, cooperation with nursing staff and physicians, non-compliance issues and changes to regulatory codes, policies and procedures, and areas of concern regarding the well-being and care of a patient.
• Collaborates with other health professionals as appropriate and develop nutrition education and resource materials as needed and engages in performance improvement measures of the department by developing and participating in quality studies.
• Assists with the administration associated with nutritional care, compliance to regulatory agencies, and development of clinical nutrition policies and procedures.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Nutrition required.

Work Experience

One year of clinical dietitian internship required.

Certification/License

Licensed registered dietitian in Missouri required.

Mental/Physical Requirements

Considerable mental concentration for sustained periods of time with frequent interruptions. Light lifting (15 lbs.) required. Sustained periods of standing, sitting and walking required. Ability to use computer, to measure and calculate, and to teach and communicate nutrition to customers.

Working Conditions

Potential exposure to infectious or communicable diseases and bodily fluids in patient care areas. Exposure to wet floors, hot steam & water, chemicals, glass breakage, and sharp knives in food production areas. Moderate levels of noise in kitchen, crowded work areas, in patient rooms, and nursing stations.

At Phelps Health, we think we have a better team, benefits, and opportunities for growth than anyone else around, and we invite you to see for yourself!

Phelps Health serves over 200,000 residents in south-central Missouri.

Phelps Health is county-owned, non-tax supported and is overseen by a five-member elected board.

Phelps Health employs more than 1,900 people, including 100-plus providers.

Phelps Health, which includes a hospital licensed for 240 patient beds, serves a six-county area, with its main campus and several clinics located in Rolla, Missouri.

Phelps Health also has clinics in Salem, St. James, Vienna and Waynesville, Missouri.