Registered Dietician

Omnia Healthcare Group; Dearborn Heights (MI); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Daily pay

401(k) with company match

Blue Cross Blue Shield Medical

Dental, Vision, and Disability

Training Programs

Villa Perks discount

Career Growth

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Villa Healthcare Facilities seeks a Registered Dietician to join our team, providing nutrition-focused meal planning and therapy according to patient care plans. You will collaborate with nursing, medical, and other staff to shape care plans and ensure accurate documentation.

Responsibilities include counseling residents and families, coordinating with the kitchen for menu content, and maintaining safety and compliance in food handling. Prior experience in long-term care is a plus.

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree in dietetics or nutrition required.
• Completion of CAE-accredited Dietetic Technician program.
• Experience in long-term care facility preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide nutritional meals per patient/resident care plan and document plans.
• Educate residents and families on diet and nutrition.
• Collaborate with nursing, medical, social services and other staff on care plans.
• Assist kitchen with menu development and substitutions as needed.
• Adhere to assessment, care plan, and charting requirements.
• Plan patient meals and communicate plans to staff via paperwork/computer systems.
• Maintain proper food storage, temperature logs, and safety procedures.
• Ensure kitchen safety and disaster preparedness.
• Analyze patient data to determine needs or treatment goals.
• Perform any other duties as assigned.

Skills

Strong communication

Clinical nutrition knowledge

English proficiency

Active listening

Organizational skills

Computer literacy

Education

Associate’s degree in dietetics or nutrition

CAE-accredited Dietetic Technician program completion

Job description

Imperial, a Villa Center is seeking a Registered Dietician to join their team! The Registered Dietician is responsible for providing nutritional meals per patients/resident care plan, including planning patient meals, providing direction for nutritional therapy, and documenting patient intake.

Registered Dietician Duties and Responsibilities:

• Understands and follows nutritional requirements for population, as learned in formal educational training.

• Provides diet instruction and counseling to residents and their families.

• Collaborates with nursing, medical, social services and other interdisciplinary staff to determine further plans of care, both at and between scheduled care conferences.

• Supports the kitchen in menu development and approving appropriate menu substitutions as needed.

• Follows resident assessment, care plan, and charting requirements.

• Plans patient meals and completes required paperwork/updates computer systems to communicate plans to other staff.

• Properly stores and handles food, maintains temperature and temperature logs.

• Ensures kitchen safety and disaster preparedness.

• Analyzes and monitors patient data to determine patient needs or treatment goals.

• All other duties, as assigned.

Registered DieticianQualifications and Skills:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including understanding of dietary terms.

• Keeps current in clinical nutrition and dietetics, food system management, and state and federal regulations.

• Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English.

• Able to listen to patients/residents with active listening.

• Strong organizational skills.

• Demonstrates basic computer knowledge and ability with an aptitude to learn company applications.

Registered Dietician Education and Experience:

• Associate’s degree in dietetics or nutrition required.

• See Dietary Technician for unregistered professionals.

• Completion of a dietetic technician program approved by the Commission on Accreditation for Dietetics Education (CAE) of the ADA.

• Experience in industrial food production preferred.

• Prior experience working in a long-term care facility a plus.

Physical Requirements:

• Walking, reaching, bending, lifting, extended sitting, grasping, fine hand coordination, pushing and pulling, ability to distinguish smells and temperatures, all with or without the aid of mechanical devices is required.

Villa Healthcare Benefits:

• Daily Pay & Competitive Compensation

• 401(k) with company match

• Blue Cross Blue Shield Medical insurance.

• Dental, Vision, and Disability insurance

• Innovative Training Programs

• Access to Villa Perks, an Employee Discount Program!

• Opportunity for Growth and Advancement

• Paid Time Off

SHARED CODE OF CONDUCT:

B.E.T.T.E.R. is Villa’s Service Excellence Code of Conduct. Becoming a member of the Villa Team includes upholding Villa’s B.E.T.T.E.R. standards every day. Be Welcoming to All, Establish a Relationship, Trust & respect, Teamwork, Engage & Communicate & Recognize.

Villa Healthcare Facilities are Equal Opportunity Employers and do not discriminate based on any protected right such as race, color, nationality, gender, age, disability or any protected applicable right under the National Labor Relations Act.