Clinical Dietitian - Hospital

Thomas Cuisine; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Merit-based raise

Continuing education raise

Supportive team

Job summary

Thomas Cuisine in Los Angeles is seeking a dietitian to conduct comprehensive nutrition assessments, document care plans, and collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to support patient recovery.

The role emphasizes counseling, education, and adherence to state and federal guidelines for therapeutic diets, with opportunities to mentor students and contribute to continuous quality improvement.

Qualifications

• Comprehensive knowledge and application of nutrition services and medical nutrition therapy.
• General knowledge of nutrient analysis, word processing, and spreadsheet software.

Responsibilities

• Conducts a nutrition assessment for patients at nutritional risk within required time frames.
• Provides documentation that summarizes the nutrition care plan in the patient's medical record, including nutrition assessment, diagnosis, plan/goals, implementation, and progress toward goals.
• Participates in multidisciplinary care conferences and discharge planning activities as appropriate.
• Develops and implements individualized plan for nutrition intervention, including enteral and parenteral nutrition.
• Reviews/approves therapeutic diets to ensure compliance with guidelines.
• Assesses and evaluates techniques that consider varied needs of age-specific populations and cultural considerations.
• Works collaboratively with and provides supervision to dining service staff.
• Provides follow-up and refers patients for outpatient counseling or home services as appropriate.
• Conducts in-services and educational presentations to hospital staff.
• Maintains accurate record keeping for scheduling and billing.
• Participates in orientation and training of new dietitians and interns; preceptor to students.

Skills

Nutrition assessment

Clinical documentation

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Counseling patients

Communication skills

Education

Registered Dietitian (RD)

Bachelor's degree in Dietetics

Tools

EMR systems

Microsoft Word

Excel

Job description

Accountability For The Following

• Conducts a nutrition assessment for patients at nutritional risk within required time frames. Obtains timely and appropriate data and analyzes/interprets data based on evidence‑based standards.
• Provides appropriate documentation that summarizes the nutrition care plan in the patient's medical record, including nutrition assessment, diagnosis, plan/goals, implementation, and progress toward goals.
• Participates in multidisciplinary care conferences and discharge planning activities as appropriate. Works closely with other disciplines including OT, PT, speech and social services to insure continuity of care.
• Performs nutrition diagnosis after identifying the problem and clarifying the cause of the problem with the patient's medical team.
• Develops and implements or makes recommendations for an individualized plan for nutrition intervention, including enteral and parenteral nutrition.
• Reviews/approves therapeutic diets to insure compliance with all state and federal guidelines.
• Assesses and evaluates techniques that consider the varied needs of age‑specific populations as well as cultural, religious, and ethnic concerns.
• Works collaboratively with and provides area supervision of dining service staff to assure accuracy of diet prescriptions and high level of customer satisfaction/scores.
• Provides appropriate follow‑up in accordance with the patient's treatment goals, referring patients for outpatient counseling, community resources or home services as appropriate.
• Conducts in‑services and educational presentations to hospital/department staff.
• Maintains accurate record keeping of daily clinical activities, as required, including information for scheduling and billing of ambulatory care services.
• Participates in the orientation and training of new dietitians and DTR's. Functions as a preceptor to dietetic students and interns. Plans learning experiences, teaches, and evaluates performance of students and interns.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge

• Comprehensive knowledge and application of nutrition services and medical nutrition therapy.
• General knowledge of nutrient analysis, word processing, and spreadsheet software.

Skills

• Exceptional customer service/public relations skills.
• Ability to effectively communicate in both written and verbal form to patients, public, medical staff, and physicians.
• Ability to function independently on assigned patient care units.
• Ability to effectively counsel and educate others.

Benefits

• Eligible for Merit based raise every year of up to 3% of the hourly rate.
• Eligible for continuing education/certification raise 3% of the hourly rate.
• Being a part of a supportive team where you are able to care for a variety of units (Acute, CCU, BHU, etc.).