Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm

Job Duties & Responsibilities:

Maintains nutritional software database.

• Monitors, verifies, and enters all information related to diet plans, menus, individual meal plans, allergy menu, and recipes in the nutritional software database.
• Performs routine nutrition assessments on assigned patients under the guidance of the registered dietitian.
• Evaluates and monitors the effectiveness and outcome of nutrition services and medical nutrition therapy interventions and answers or refers questions regarding patients' nutritional care to the registered dietitian.
• Monitors the quality and accuracy of food served to patients.
• Communicates with related departments, such as medical and nursing, to optimize nutrition care and monitoring of food quality and delivery.

Interact with Dietary Service's kitchen staff.

• Coordinate involvement with modified diets with the manager and/or supervisor of Dietary Services.
• Clearly informs kitchen staff of patient needs in a timely manner, i.e., special diets, snacks, food allergies, food dislikes, and any other information vital to patient needs. Include patient picture in the allergy book for kitchen staff.
• Assist the manager and/or supervisor of Dietary Services in writing menus, to include seasonal menus, special menus, monthly theme meals, exchanges, and diet extensions.
• Address patient complaints and concerns regarding meal findings to the manager and/or supervisor of Dietary Services.
• Inservice department annually on modified diets and other mandatory topics.
• Provide any pertinent information on the dry erase board in the kitchen, if applicable.

Additional Job Description:

Education/Training Requirements:

• Associates degree in Dietetics.
• Achieved and maintained registration through the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and successfully passed the registration exam.
• One (1) year experience in a clinical setting preferred.
• Awareness and understanding of Joint Commission and other regulatory agency compliance regulations.