Registered Dietician Position Available In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Job Description
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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.“`{=html}“
- 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
