The incumbent is responsible for providing nutritional counseling and programs on an outpatient basis, as well as providing services in a manner that upholds the health center’s mission and quality standards that increases improved patient health outcomes and overall satisfaction and stronger operational and fiscal capacity of the health center.
Essential Functions:
Function as a nutrition consultant in an integrated team-based environment, completing nutrition referrals from SHS providers.
Routinely integrate nutrition into non-referral patient visits, including routine, unscheduled visits, and warm-hand-off from providers.
Coordinates and provides all aspects of nutrition care including medical nutrition therapy (MNT), education, and counseling based on individual patient needs and industry standards.
Communicate nutrition assessments, counseling reports and care plans to referring physicians and multidisciplinary team in compliance with standardized International Dietetics and Nutrition Terminology (IDNT).
Evaluate nutritional assessments, reviews and interpret pertinent diagnostic and treatment. Develop, implement, and monitor the nutritional care plan.
Review and calculate modified diets to meet the special dietary needs of those patients requiring nutrition intervention.
Provides, Diabetes Self-Management Support (DSMS), when applicable, and diabetes prevention for the community and at community-based settings and events.
Identify higher risk patients, including those without diagnosis of hypertension, but with high blood pressure readings and those with uncontrolled hypertension.
Increase public and provider knowledge of the symptoms, risk factors and target goals of diabetes, pre-diabetes, gestational diabetes management and hypertension, and the importance of physical activity and healthy eating.
Accurately document medical records with the nutritional status, nutrient intake, nutritional education, and other pertinent data.
Assess educational needs of patients, provides nutrition counseling for individuals and groups, and may schedule new or follow-up outpatient visits.
Continually update knowledge recommended for nutritional therapies pertaining to program management, education, chronic disease care, behavior change.
Participate in team meetings.
Develop and nurture relationships with outside organizations (YMCA, Food Banks, etc.) that will assist in providing education and resources to the patients and communities surrounding the health center sites.
Fulfill continuing education requirements to maintain registration/licensure.
Comply with HIPPA and OSHA/safety regulations. Support the concepts and philosophies of Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH).
Adhere to the Spectrum Health Services Standards of Behavior.
Provide self-management education and training for patients with diabetes.
And other duties as assigned by management.
Experience and Skills:
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college and course work accredited or approved by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND) of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) required; Master’s degree in Nutrition preferred.
Minimum of two (2) years-experience in a primary care/community health setting preferred.
CDE, CNSC and/or CSP certification preferred.
RD certificate required, obtained by successfully completion of the national Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist examination administered by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR).
Must obtain Dietitian/Nutritionist licensure (LDN) through Pennsylvania Division of Professional Regulation within 3 months of hire.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
No supervisory responsibilities
Seniority level
Entry level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Health Care Provider
Industries
Hospitals and Health Care
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