Registered Dietitian

Elderwood Administrative Services; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 39,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Elderwood Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation in Boston is seeking a Registered Dietitian to join our interdisciplinary clinical team. You will perform nutrition assessments, develop plans, and support care teams to improve recovery, wound healing, and quality of life for residents.

This role emphasizes geriatric nutrition, collaboration with nursing, medical providers, and dining services, and requires a strong clinical background along with experience in long-term care settings.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in nutrition, dietetics, or a related field.
• Current RD/RDN credential through the Commission on Dietetic Registration.
• New York State Certified Dietitian-Nutritionist or applicable state credential.
• Strong clinical assessment, counseling, and communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate with residents, families, nursing staff, medical providers, and dining services.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive nutrition assessments and reassessments.
• Identify residents at risk for malnutrition or weight changes.
• Develop, implement, monitor, and revise individualized nutrition care plans.
• Provide evidence-based recommendations based on diagnoses, laboratory information, medications, intake, weight trends, treatment goals, and resident preferences.
• Monitor residents on enteral nutrition and dialysis or wound care.
• Provide nutrition counseling and education to residents and families.
• Document assessments and outcomes in the electronic medical record.
• Participate in care-plan meetings and interdisciplinary discussions.
• Collaborate with dining services to translate clinical recommendations into meals.

Skills

Clinical nutrition

Nutrition assessment

Counseling

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in nutrition or dietetics

Registered Dietitian credential

New York State Certified Dietitian-Nutritionist credential

Tools

EMR software

Nutrition software

Job description

Salary

$ 28.60 / hr - $ 37.92 / hr

Overview

Registered Dietitian (RD / CDN)

Elderwood Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation

Make a Meaningful Impact Through Nutrition & Resident Wellness

Practice Clinical Nutrition Where Your Expertise Has Visible Impact

West Roxbury Health and Rehabilitation Center is seeking a compassionate and clinically strong Registered Dietitian to join our interdisciplinary team within our skilled nursing and rehabilitation community.

This role is an opportunity to directly impact the health, recovery, comfort, and quality of life of our residents through individualized nutritional care planning, clinical collaboration, and resident-centered support.

If you are passionate about geriatric nutrition, enjoy building relationships with residents and care teams, and thrive in a collaborative healthcare environment - we encourage you to apply.

A Clinically Diverse Nutrition Practice

Elderwood provides long-term care, memory care, and comprehensive subacute rehabilitation for individuals recovering from illness, injury, surgery, orthopedic procedures, and cardiac conditions.

The facility supports residents and short-stay patients with needs that may include:

• Enteral nutrition
• Dialysis coordination and renal considerations
• Complex wounds and wound-vac therapy
• Ostomy care
• Post-surgical and orthopedic rehabilitation
• Cardiac rehabilitation
• Oncology support
• Memory care
• Palliative care
• Significant weight changes and risk of malnutrition

As the Registered Dietitian, you will serve as a clinical resource to nursing, medical providers, rehabilitation professionals, speech-language pathology, dining services, residents, and families. Your recommendations will be connected to the resident’s broader clinical goals—not separated from them.

Make Nutrition Part of the Clinical Plan

At Elderwood, nutrition is connected to recovery, wound healing, strength, comfort, and quality of life. If you want to practice as an active member of an interdisciplinary clinical team and see the ongoing effect of your expertise, we would like to meet you.

Responsibilities

What You’ll Own as a Registered Dietitian (RD/RDN/CDN):

Clinical nutrition and resident care

• Complete comprehensive nutrition assessments and reassessments
• Identify residents at risk for malnutrition, unintended weight change, dehydration, impaired wound healing, or other nutrition-related concerns
• Develop, implement, monitor, and revise individualized nutrition care plans
• Make evidence-based recommendations based on diagnoses, laboratory information, medications, intake, weight trends, treatment goals, and resident preferences
• Monitor residents receiving enteral nutrition and recommend adjustments as clinically indicated
• Support nutrition planning for residents receiving dialysis or complex wound care
• Provide nutrition counseling and education to residents and families
• Document assessments, interventions, recommendations, and outcomes accurately in the electronic medical record

Interdisciplinary collaboration

• Participate actively in care-plan meetings, clinical reviews, and interdisciplinary discussions
• Partner with nursing and medical providers regarding changes in condition, weight trends, laboratory information, hydration, supplements, and nutrition interventions
• Collaborate with rehabilitation and speech-language professionals to support recovery, function, intake, and safe nutrition plans
• Work with dining services to translate clinical recommendations and resident preferences into appropriate meal service
• Serve as an accessible nutrition resource for facility leaders and care teams

Quality, education, and regulatory readiness

• Monitor nutrition-related quality indicators, trends, and outcomes
• Conduct audits and contribute to performance-improvement initiatives
• Support compliance with CMS, New York State Department of Health, and applicable nutrition-services requirements
• Help maintain survey readiness through accurate documentation and consistent clinical practices
• Provide nutrition education and in-service training to employees
• Support and mentor dietetic interns or Diet Technicians when applicable

Qualifications

What You’ll Need as a Registered Dietitian (RD/RDN/CDN):

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in nutrition, dietetics, or a related field
• Current Registered Dietitian or Registered Dietitian Nutritionist credential through the Commission on Dietetic Registration
• New York State Certified Dietitian-Nutritionist credential or other applicable state credential
• Strong clinical-assessment, critical-thinking, documentation, counseling, and communication skills
• Ability to collaborate effectively with residents, families, nursing employees, medical providers, rehabilitation professionals, and dining services
• Ability to use electronic medical records and applicable nutrition software
• Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English at the level necessary for safe care and effective workplace communication

Preferred

• Clinical nutrition experience in skilled nursing, rehabilitation, long-term care, geriatrics, dialysis, acute care, or another medically complex setting
• Experience with enteral nutrition, renal considerations, wound healing, unintended weight change, or malnutrition
• Familiarity with CMS and New York State nutrition-services requirements

Registered Dietitians coming from hospitals, dialysis, rehabilitation, outpatient clinical care, or other healthcare settings are encouraged to apply. Previous long-term-care experience is valuable, but it will not prevent a clinically capable RD from being considered.

EOE Statement

WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. Applicants and employees are considered for positions and are evaluated without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.