Registered Dietician

Overview:

Work in this class involves providing comprehensive, complex nutrition and health education services to patients with a variety of medical/nutritional problems. Employees have a thorough knowledge of disease pathophysiology in relation to nutritional theories and practices. Employees deal with acute, chronic, and terminally ill clients/patients who are characterized as medical high risk. Employees participate in developing clinic flow, patient referral criteria, operation standards, and procedures. Employees will serve as a technical resource and provide training to other staff. Work may include other related assignments as determined by the management. Employees report to the Program Management Team.

Employees receive complex, critical referrals, requiring independent analysis of clients’ medical condition, researching nutritional requirements of the respective medical problems, and creation of a treatment plan in concert with an interdisciplinary team approach. Employees may provide technical consultation and training to clinicians in developing the nutrition component of the care plan. Employees interpret medical and laboratory information and discuss hospital referred treatment plans, interpreting their application to the home environment.

Guidelines include standardized assessments, professional reference materials, nutritional program reference manuals, medical reference, and professional standards. Employees must independently apply these guidelines, program goals, and standards or seek advice from either a higher lever nutritionist or the program management team.

Essential Duties:

· Support medical staff in addressing nutrition and weight issues with all patients

· Counsel interested patients/families in healthy food choices and physical activity

· Maintain database of patients counseled

· Plan patient care independently or in concert with an interdisciplinary team.

· Meeting objectives and goals as directed by your supervisors.

· Help program management develop resources (handouts, newsletters, demonstrations and other teaching tools) and forms as assigned and directed.

· Meet with staff to review program and revise process.

· Communicate regularly with providers on all their patients/families enrolled in program

· Provide consultative service to school nurses, fitness program staff and other change agents.

· Assists with special research projects; gathers comprehensive health education data and statistics; and makes proposals as needed based on these and trends in the health education field.

· innovations.

· Provides oversight for the Fun Fitness program at the designated location.

· Represents the agency at community organizations; serves as a speaker before public groups, private organizations, and the general public as needed.

· Performs related duties as required.

· Travel as needed.

Confidential Information:

Works with confidential data: patient medical records, insurance, and billing information.

Work Conditions:

Job duties are performed in normal medical office working conditions. There will be exposure to patients with communicable diseases and blood borne pathogens; all necessary protective measures will be provided.

Mental Attention or Visual Demand:

Must be able to communicate via telephone and other automated devices. Mental/visual attention, along with manual coordination is necessary for keyboard operations at least 50% of the time. Normal or corrected hearing is required.

Minimum Qualifications:

Registered Dietitian

Masters Degree with two year’s work experience.

Proficient in Microsoft Office

Current NC Driver’s License

Safety of Others:

Safety of others depends entirely on the correct action of employee on job being rated. Errors, such as incorrectly administered medications, injections, and/or other treatments, should they occur, could result in serious or fatal repercussions for the patient.

Quality Improvement

Must understand and help enforce the meaning of quality improvement:” The combined and unceasing efforts of everyone-healthcare professionals, patients, and their families, researchers, payers, planners and educators-to make the change that will lead to better patient outcomes, better system performance and better professional development.”(Batalden, 2007). Committed to promoting TAPM as a medical home and incorporating the core components of a Patient Centered Medical Home into your position on a daily basis.

1. Patient Centered

2. Comprehensive care

3. Team-based

4. Coordinated

5. Accessible

6. Focusing on Quality and Safety

Triad Adult and Pediatric Medicine is an Equal Opportunity Employer.