PACE REGISTERED DIETITIAN

The Registered Dietitian contributes and participates as a health care team member to provided needed nutritional counseling service to individuals and families; serves as a nutrition consultant to staff; assist in the development of nutritional educational materials; participates and takes charge of the nutrition component of agency projects.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Develops and implements age appropriate, linguistically correct, and culturally sensitive tools for nutritional counseling on both normal and therapeutic diets.
• Assesses patient needs, establishes priorities, designs, develops, recommends, updates, implements and evaluates programs, curriculum, materials, protocol, procedures and standards for nutrition education/health education.
• Conducts Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) upon physical referrals.
• Documents accurately and thoroughly in the Participants’ electronic health record in accordance with industry and departmental standards including time requirements.
• Contributes and assists in the development and periodic updates of the Nutrition EHR templates for charting.
• Implements nutrition care to include follow up and referrals to government, community and/or other NEMS for continuity of nutrition care.
• Develops meal plans as appropriate to meet member’s lifestyle, socio-economic background, age, culture, diagnosis and religious affiliation.
• Develops and maintains Nutrition protocols up to date.
• Establishes relationships with community agencies for patient referrals.
• Assists in the development of handouts on nutritional educational materials.
• Utilizes Epic appropriately and efficiently and serve as content and workflow expert for resolving issues and proposing solutions in Epic.
• Performs home visits as necessary.
• Performs other job duties as required by manager/supervisor.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition or related field. Master’s degree preferred
• Registered Dietitian (RD) in the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics in good standing
• Current BLS and First Aid required
• Proficient in computer usage

Preferred:

• Minimum one year of experience working with a frail and/or older adult.
• 2+ years experience in nutritional assessment, coaching and counseling patients
• 2+ years of work experience as RD in community agencies. Serving a diverse population with different cultural needs preferred

PHYSICAL:

• Occasional ten key typing
• Constant sitting through out an entire work day shift
• Rare occasions of pushing/pulling objects under 10lbs

LANGUAGE:

• Must be able to fluently speak, read and write English.
• Fluency in Chinese (Cantonese) is preferred.
• Fluency in other languages is an asset.