Dietitian (FLEXI)

Chesapeake Regional Healthcare; Chesapeake (VA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Chesapeake Regional Healthcare is seeking a Registered Dietitian to assess patient needs and design, implement, and evaluate individualized nutrition plans in outpatient settings.

You will provide one-on-one and group counseling across diabetes, weight management, cardiac risk, and general wellness, while promoting motivational interviewing and behavior change within an interdisciplinary team.

Qualifications

• Registered Dietitian status with current CDR credentials.
• Completion of a RD program; licensure or certification as required.
• Experience teaching nutrition concepts in hospital or outpatient settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide one-on-one and group outpatient medical nutritional counseling.
• Conduct group sessions on weight loss, diabetes, cardiac and pulmonary nutrition.
• Deliver diabetes self-management education in all 9 content areas.
• Assess outpatient nutritional needs and develop care plans with therapeutic diets.
• Educate patients about behavior modification and goals.
• Document progress in patient charts and the electronic health record.
• Communicate with providers about patient progress.
• Assist in program development, evaluation, and quality improvement.
• Lead seminars, cooking demonstrations, supermarket tours, and community lectures.

Skills

Group sessions

Motivational interviewing

Nutrition education

Diabetes education

Education

Registered Dietitian program

Bachelor or Master in Nutrition/Dietetics

Tools

Electronic health record

Job description

Summary

In accordance with the National Scope and Standards of Diabetes Educators, as well as the National Standards for Diabetes Education and Support, the Dietitian assesses the needs of patients and designs, implements, and evaluates a teaching plan.

In accordance with the National Scope and Standards of Diabetes Educators, as well as the National Standards for Diabetes Education and Support, the Dietitian assesses the needs of patients and designs, implements, and evaluates a teaching plan.

The dietitian provides individual nutritional counseling in the following areas:

• Diabetes
• Weight management
• Bariatric
• Hyperlipidemia
• Cardiac
• Nutrition support
• Hypoglycemia
• General nutrition wellness
• Pregnancy
• Gestational diabetes
• G.I. related disease problems
• Pulmonary nutrition
• And more

The Dietitian is also responsible for facilitating and assisting in the development of programs for:

• Group sessions
• Seminars
• Cooking demonstrations
• Supermarket tours
• Lectures for local businesses and the community

The Dietitian interacts with an interdisciplinary team of health professionals and promotes positive behavior change with client populations using motivational interviewing techniques, goal setting, effective client communication, and support. Evaluates and assists clients with barriers to change.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities described below represent the general tasks performed daily; other tasks may be assigned.

• Provide one-on-one and group outpatient medical nutritional counseling.
• Conduct group sessions relative to weight loss and maintenance, diabetes management, cardiac risk management, pulmonary management, and general nutritional wellness.
• Provide diabetes self-management education and support in all 9 content areas as defined by the National Standards of Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support.
• Assess the nutritional needs of outpatients and develop nutritional care plans with prescribed therapeutic diets for nutritional problems.
• Educate patients about behavior modification relative to diet.
• Document all information on the progress of each individual in patient charts and in the electronic health record.
• Communicate with the patient's provider or the provider's office to report on the patient's progress.
• Assist in the implementation of the assessment plan, and in the implementation and evaluation stages of the scientific process.
• Assist in developing and revising programs for individual and group interventions.
• Participate in the Diabetes Program Quality Improvement Plan.
• Participate on the Diabetes Advisory Committee.
• Facilitate programs, seminars, cooking demonstrations, supermarket tours, and lectures for local businesses, the community, and the Lifestyle Center.
• Meet with local employers to determine employee needs and nutritional services being offered.
• Assist in answering phones to provide potential clients with program information.
• Provide information to patient program participants and the general public regarding Lifestyle Center programs and related services.
• Make appropriate referrals to the Lifestyle Center programs.

Education

Minimum Required Education

Successful completion of a Registered Dietitian program.

Preferred Education

Bachelor or Master of Science Degree in Nutrition, Dietetics.

Experience

Preferred

2+ years in teaching nutritional concepts in a hospital or outpatient nutritional program.

Certifications

Applicants must be a Registered Dietitian through the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) with a current CDR status.