Registered Dietitian

Select Specialty Hospital San Antonio Inc.; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 41,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus $7,500

Job summary

Select Specialty Hospital – St. Louis North is hiring a Registered Dietitian to provide medical nutrition therapy, assess patients, and collaborate with the medical staff to implement nutrition care plans.

You will develop and monitor enteral/parenteral nutrition, participate in interdisciplinary meetings, and educate staff on nutrition care. Requires active state licensure and RD registration, plus 1 year of clinical experience.

Qualifications

• Current state licensure/certification required by state.
• Active registration with the Commission on Dietetics Registration.
• At least 1 year of clinical facility experience or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Provide medical nutrition therapy and monitor patient progress.
• Develop and monitor enteral and parenteral nutrition support regimens.
• Collaborate with medical staff, patients, families and food service to implement care plans.
• Perform nutritional assessments and re-assessments and set goals.
• Review diet manuals and ensure alignment with provider orders.
• Attend interdisciplinary team meetings and educate staff.

Education

Current state licensure/certification

Current registration by the Commission on Dietetics Registration

One (1) year of work experience in a facility setting with clinical responsibilities or equivalent

Job description

Position: Registered Dietitian

Location: Select Specialty Hospital - St. Louis North 63136

Located inside of Christian Northeast Hospital

Schedule: Full-time Days, 5-8 hour days

Compensation: $30-$45, based on years of experience

Sign-On Bonus: $7,500 No commitment/repayment

Select Specialty Hospital is a critical illness recovery hospital committed to providing world-class inpatient post-ICU services to chronic, critically ill patients who require extended healing and recovery. We help patients during some of the most vulnerable, painful moments of their lives - and Registered Dietitians play a central role in providing compassionate, excellent care every step of the way.

Why Join Us

• Start Strong: Extensive and thorough Registered Dietitian orientation program to ensure a smooth transition into our setting.
• Your Health Matters: Comprehensive medical/RX, health, vision, and dental plan offerings for full-time team members.
• Recharge & Refresh: Generous PTO full-time team members to maintain a healthy work-life balance
• Invest in Your Future: Company-matching 401(k) retirement plan, as well as life and disability protection
• Your Impact Matters: Join a team of over 44,000 nationwide committed to providing exceptional care.
• Provide quality nutritional care to patients such as the development, implementation and monitoring of Medical Nutrition Therapies.
• work collaboratively with the medical staff, patients, families and food service department to ensure the patients' nutrition care plans are implemented and departmental standards are maintained.
• Perform nutritional assessments and re-assessments, identifying goals, recommending nutrition interventions, monitoring and evaluating patient progress.
• Develop and monitor enteral and/or parenteral nutrition support regimens.
• Work closely with the Speech Therapy Department to assist with the progression of textured modified diets to ensure patient safety and optimize oral intake.
• Clarify admission orders to ensure nutrition support, diet and oral supplement orders are consistent with the facility’s established nutrition support formulary and diet manual.
• Consider religious, cultural and ethnic factors in development of nutrition care plans.
• Review yearly updates and approves therapeutic diet manual annually. Educates clinical and food service staff on location of the Nutrition Care Manual. Maintains hard copy of simplified diet manual for downtime.
• Keeps current with nutritional practices and theories. Maintains current professional registration requirements (i.e., Professional Portfolio, self-development and continuing education). Demonstrates interest in continuing education, academics or specialized certification to further enhance professional skills.
• Evaluate potential food/drug interactions, and/or herb/supplement interactions.
• Attend interdisciplinary team meetings and communicating progress and special needs.
• Participate in developing, planning and standardizing menus.
• Perform meal rounds to ensure patients' meal trays are consistent with the prescribed diet and meet standards as to quality, quantity, temperature and appearance.

Minimum Qualifications

• Current state licensure/certification, if required by state.
• Current registration by the Commission on Dietetics Registration.
• One (1) year of work experience in a facility setting with clinical responsibilities or equivalent.