Registered Dietitian, Part Time

Position Highlights: 

• Location: Winston Salem, North Carolina
• Part Time

What We Offer:

• Day 1 Health Coverage: Choose from either copay or HSA-eligible health insurance options with coverage starting on your first day of work. 
• Generous PTO: Accrual starts at up to 25 days/year, to be used for vacations, sickness, holidays, and personal matters. 
• Parental Benefits: Six weeks paid birthing-mother maternity leave & four weeks paid parental leave for non-birthing parents.
• Retirement: Up to 7% employer-paid retirement contributions
• Education Reimbursement: We invest in your professional growth, offering up to $2,500 per year towards a bachelor’s degree and up to $5,000 per year towards a graduate degree. 

Job Summary:

Under administrative supervision, responsible for determining the dietary requirements, and overseeing food preparation, distribution, and service for specific patients.

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor's degree in Foods & Nutrition or related field of study. 
• One year of relevant experience in dietetics and nutrition. 
• Professional registration by the American Dietetic Association. 
• Knowledge of dietetics, food values, and kitchen practices. 
• Supervisory ability

What You'll Do:

• Plan and coordinate the written diet requirements for specific patients; judge the quality of food products.
• Interview patients and/or their family regarding the nutritional history of the patient; counsel and teach diet therapy and nutrition to patients; monitor the ongoing nutritional status of patients. 
• Plan, supervise and assist with the work of dietary assistants and cooks. 
• Confer with faculty heads concerning efficacy of special diets. 
• Prepare and maintain dietary records and reports. 
• Stay informed on the trends in the field of dietetics; provide education on dietetics to students, nurses and other allied health staff. 
• Purchase food supplies for department; recommend purchase of kitchen equipment; oversee maintenance of equipment as necessary. 
• May participate in research projects in nutrition or with a nutrition component. 
• Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein. 

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.