Renal Dietitian | ESRD Nutrition & Patient Care

Concerto Renal Services; Baltimore (MD); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Concerto Renal Services in the United States is seeking a Renal Dietitian to join its team. The Renal Dietitian provides nutrition education, counseling and interventions to ESRD patients and authorized caregivers in clinical settings to maximize nutritional well‑being.

The role involves comprehensive nutrition assessment, planning, monitoring of labs, collaboration with RN, IDT and physicians, development of medical nutrition therapy, and education material development.

Qualifications

• Provides nutrition education and counseling.
• Develops medical nutrition therapy.
• Per CMS regulations, completes assessments and reassessments.

Responsibilities

• Independently performs comprehensive nutrition assessments and reassessments per CMS regulations.
• Establishes and updates patient plans of care with the interdisciplinary team.
• Develops individualized Medical Nutrition Therapy based on labs and goals.
• Monitors nutritional status and labs to guide interventions and medication adjustments.
• Documents nutrition progress notes at least monthly.
• Travels to assigned facilities to cover Nutrition Services as needed.

Skills

Nutrition education

Counseling

Medical Nutrition Therapy

CMS regulations

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Job description

Renal Dietitian

Concerto Renal Services is an industry leader in nursing home dialysis. We are a rapidly expanding business with a simple mission: reimagining dialysis care, one community at a time. Our model focuses on ensuring those with end-stage renal disease receive the best possible care through a more convenient, centralized, continuous care model.

Summary/Objective

Concerto is seeking a Renal Dietitian to join its team! The Renal Dietitian is responsible for providing nutrition education, counseling and interventions as appropriate to End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) patients and authorized caregivers in clinical settings to maximize the patients nutritional well-being.

Essential Functions

• Independently evaluates, develops and completes comprehensive nutrition assessment and reassessment consistent with CMS regulations.
• Works with patient and IDT to establish, document and update patients plan of care (POC).
• Assesses ongoing nutritional status to determine appropriate nutrition interventions and recommendations. Consults with ECF staff (RN, RD) and physicians regarding lab tests and medications adjustments as needed.
• Develops individualized Medical Nutrition Therapy for patients based on reported lab results and individualized goals.
• May request assistance from the lead dietitian as needed with advanced or complex clinical renal nutrition situations.
• Provides nutrition education and counseling based on individualized patient needs including nutrient requirements, knowledge and abilities, medical, economic and social situation.
• Selects and develops education materials and methods appropriate for individual patient.
• Monitors nutritional status, laboratory values, dialysis adequacy, adherence to diet and response to nutrition related medications and therapy to determine appropriate nutrition intervention and recommendations.
• Documents nutrition progress notes at least monthly.
• Conduct nutrition assessment upon patient admission, 90-day assessment and annually.
• Review monthly lab results with each patient and/or ECF and provide patient/ECF with printed patient nutrition report.
• Evaluates outcomes and identifies factors that may contribute to undesirable results and documents appropriately.
• Participates in patient care conferences at ECF, continuous quality improvement meetings and departmental and interdepartmental meetings as needed.
• Travel to assigned facilities and assists in coverage of Nutrition Services in cases of LOA, vacations and census increase.
• Responsible for self-professional development and maintenance of necessary credentials.