Per Diem Clinical Dietician

St. Joseph's Health; New Jersey; On-site; USD 42,000 - 68,000; Part time

Job summary

St. Joseph's Health in New Jersey seeks a part-time nutrition professional to assess patients' nutritional needs, provide high-quality care, and monitor responses to therapy across age groups.

Required: Bachelor's degree in Nutritional Science or related field, RD/RDN registration, and up to 1 year of post-degree coursework or internship with 3–6 months of orientation. Strong counseling and communication skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required plus up to 1 yr of post-degree coursework and/or internship; no previous experience required.
• RD/RDN registration required; ability to collect information from diverse sources, apply professional principles, and analyze data to solve problems.
• Ability to counsel and educate patients and families, and to communicate effectively across teams.

Responsibilities

• Assess nutritional needs of patients across age groups (child, adolescent, adult, geriatric).
• Provide quality nutritional care and monitor response to nutrition therapy as appropriate to age group.

Skills

Counsel patients

Communication

Analytical ability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Nutritional Science or related field

Job description

To assess the nutritional needs of patients; provide quality nutritional care and monitor response to nutrition therapy as appropriate to the age of the population served (i.e. child, adolescent, adult and geriatric)

Qualifications

• Work requires knowledge of theories, principles, & concepts normally acquired through completion of a Bachelor's degree in Nutritional Science/ closely related field + up to 1 yr of post degree course work and/or internship & no previous experience + 3-6 months of on job training/orientation.
• RD/RDN registration required. Work requires the analytical ability to collect information from diverse sources, apply professional principles in performing various analyses, and summarize the information and data in order to solve problems OR design relatively complex systems and programs.
• Work requires the ability to counsel and educate patients and their families, assign and follow up on the work of other employees, and perform other duties requiring a comparable level of communication skill.

Job Info

• Job Identification 20250836
• Job Category Support Services
• Posting Date 04/03/2026, 02:06 PM
• Job Schedule Part time
• Locations St. Joseph's University Medical Center St. Joseph's Wayne Medical Center (On-site)