Dietician I Per Diem
Job Description
Provides nutrition education and clinical services within established guidelines.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Essential Duties:
- Upholds Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities and applicable state, federal and local laws.
- Participates in establishing department strategic goals and priorities.
- Assesses member needs, establishes priorities, designs, develops, recommends, updates, implements and evaluates programs, curriculum, materials (written and audiovisual), protocols, procedures and standards for health/nutrition education.
- Plans, participates and evaluates community events and coordinates use of community resources as appropriate.
- Implements nutrition care plans to include follow-up and referrals to government, community and/or other Kaiser Permanente facilities for continuity of nutrition care.
- Educates/counsels members, family and caregivers regarding health and nutrition on an individual or group setting (classes).
- Develops meal plans as appropriate to meet members lifestyle, socio-economic background, age, culture, diagnosis and religious affiliation.
- Consults and educates physicians and other healthcare providers regarding member and population specific nutrition/health related issues.
- Participates in multidisciplinary care teams and committees.
- Collects data, plans, prepares and implements reports for performance improvement and/or quality assurance audits.
- Develops grants and proposals for health/nutrition programs.
- Plans, conducts and evaluates in-service education programs for department staff, the multidisciplinary care team and physicians.
- Individual Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT):
- Provides high quality, evidence-based, efficient, customer-focused MNT, including nutrition screening, assessment, care planning and education for appropriate nutrition intervention.
- Develops, implements, and monitors ongoing plan of care based on the screening and assessment of the patient specific nutrition care plans/education and based on the patients age, nutrition and psychosocial status, diagnosis, cultural background and religious affiliation.
- Other duties as assigned.
Basic Qualifications:
Experience
- Previous experience in providing and coordinating health education services (usually one (1) year) and/or hospital experience.
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Food/Nutrition or related field.
License, Certification, Registration
- National Provider Identifier required at hire
- Registered Dietitian within six (6) months of hire
Additional Requirements:
- Strong interpersonal and written communication skills.
- Demonstrates working knowledge of mainframe and personal computing systems.
- Demonstrates highly effective interpersonal, written and verbal communications.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership Environment.
- Must be a Registered Dietitian (RD), as confirmed by the Commission on Dietetic Registration.
- Pre-RDs may be considered if:
- 1. candidate has completed the Supervised Practice Program (SPP) for RDs, AND
- 2. not more than six (6) months has passed since completing the SPP, AND
- 3. cand
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12/20/2024
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