Dietitian- InPatient

Dietitian - Inpatient Care at Providence Medford Medical Center- On-call, Day Schedule 
 

Join our team at Providence and play a vital role in enhancing patient health and recovery through optimal nutrition. As a Registered Dietitian, you'll leverage your clinical expertise to conduct thorough nutrition assessments, provide education, and implement interventions aimed at improving patient outcomes.   

If you're passionate about patient care and thrive in a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment, we encourage you to explore this opportunity with us. Join us in our mission to make lives better through compassionate and expert nutrition care.

Potential growth opportunities to advance to a Sr. Dietitian in this department

The Dietitian works closely with the departmental and interdisciplinary health care team to provide inpatient care that is integrated and compatible with patient-centered medical goals and objectives. Utilizes the Nutrition Care Process and Terminology (NCPT) to assess nutrition status, identify nutrition diagnoses, performs nutrition-focused physical examination, interprets results and makes nutrition diagnoses, orders nutrition and diet orders, designs and implement nutrition care plans and evaluate outcomes of nutrition care plans for patients who are at nutrition risk or malnourished. Provides medical nutrition therapy and professional nutrition counseling methods to patients, families and the community.

Providence caregivers are not simply valued – they’re invaluable. Join our Providence Medford Medical Center and thrive in our culture of patient-focused, whole-person care built on understanding, commitment, and mutual respect. Your voice matters here, because we know that to inspire and retain the best people, we must empower them.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Dietetics, foods and nutrition or related area granted by a U.S. regionally accredited college or university, or foreign equivalent. 
• Completion of required dietetics coursework and supervised practice through a Didactic Program in Dietetics and Dietetic Internship or Coordinated Program in Dietetics accredited by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND) of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
• Oregon Dietitian License within 6 months (180 days) of hire.
• within 6 months (180 days) of hire: Dietitian license in state of hire AND wherever care is delivered.
• National CDR Registered Dietitian - Commission on Dietetic Registration upon hire.
• 1 year Experience with current adult learning theory in relation to nutrition education.
• 1 year Experience with nutrition management of multiple disease states.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1 year experience in clinical setting for generalist.
• 1 year Experience with managing nutrition in a clinical setting.

Why Join Providence? 

Our best-in-class benefits are uniquely designed to support you and your family in staying well, growing professionally, and achieving financial security. We take care of you, so you can focus on delivering our Mission of caring for everyone, especially the most vulnerable in our communities.

Accepting a new position at another facility that is part of the Providence family of organizations may change your current benefits. Changes in benefits, including paid time-off, happen for various reasons. These reasons can include changes of Legal Employer, FTE, Union, location, time-off plan policies, availability of health and welfare benefit plan offerings, and other various reasons.

At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of “Know me, care for me, ease my way.” Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we’ll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive heal