Job Summary: 

Responsible for providing comprehensive nutrition screening,assessment and care planning for St.Clare Medical Outreach patients

Provides client and staff education. Participates on hospital committees and council as directed and participates in community events as appropriate.

Essential Duties:  

• Develops client relationships and client satisfaction for nutrition assessments and care planning of patients
• Uses culturally competent skills to assess individual patient needs
• Documents in the clinical record a comprehensive assessment of patients needs, barriers, interventions, resources and plan of care.
• Ensures service is customer focused timely, informative and individualized
• Directs dietary care of patients including screening, assessment, intervention and planning
• Accountable for service quality
• Promotes and supports a culturally diverse population
• Develops and implements nutritional programs
• Evaluates programs and reports results
• Confers with medical staff and other health professionals to coordinate medical and nutritional needs
• Educates medical staff and counsels patients of families on proper nutritional care
• Stays current with nutrition-related trends, research, policy, and certifications

Education:

• BS in Food and Nutrition, Masters preferred
• Bilingual in Spanish and English
• One year experience as a Clinical Dietician preferred who has worked with immigrant and uninsured population.

License/Certification:

• Registered Dietician certification.
• Licenced to practice in this state.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates a commitment to service, organization values and professionalism through appropriate conduct and demeanor at all times.
• Adheres to and exhibits our core values:
  Reverence: Having a profound spirit of awe and respect for all creation, shaping relationships to self, to one another and to God and acknowledging that we hold in trust all that has been given to us.
  Integrity: Moral wholeness, soundness, uprightness, honesty and sincerity as a basis of trustworthiness.
  Compassion: Feeling with others, being one with others in their sorrows and joys, rooted in the sense of solidarity as members of the human community.
  Excellence: Outstanding achievement, merit, virtue; continually surpassing standards to achieve/maintain quality.
• Maintains confidentiality and protects sensitive data at all times.
• Adheres to organizational and department specific safety standards and guidelines.
• Works collaboratively and supports efforts of team members.
• Demonstrates exceptional customer service and interacts effectively with physicians, patients, residents, visitors, staff and the broader health care community.

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