Market Director Clinical Nutrition Services

Welcome to CommonSpirit Health Mountain Region

CommonSpirit Health Mountain Region is committed to building healthier communities, advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable, and innovating how and where healing can happen—both inside our hospitals and out in the community. With locations throughout Colorado, Utah, and Kansas, we deliver the same high standard of care to our employees as we do to our patients. Our 20 hospitals, emergency and urgent care centers, home care and hospice, Flight for Life ColoradoTM , telehealth and over 240 physician practices and clinics offer endless opportunities! Here, you can grow your career and impact the people in the communities you serve.

 

CommonSpirit Health is one of the nation’s largest nonprofit, faith-based health systems, with a team of over 150,000 employees and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians. CommonSpirit operates more than 2,200 care sites and 140 hospitals, serving some of the most diverse communities across the nation, letting humankindness lead the way.

Overview

You have a purpose, unique talents and now is the time to embrace it, live it and put it to work. We value incredible people with incredible skills – but your commitment to a greater cause is something we value even more. This is the heartbeat of our organization and your time will be spent in a supportive, team environment with resources to help you flourish and leaders who care about your success.

 

Directs the functions of clinical nutrition services, which is required to provide high quality nutritional care to patients and clients. Director also directs the daily RD function for training and performance improvement programs for the clinical employees within a CSH (CommonSpirit Health) region.

 

1. Directs the clinical nutrition program within a region.2. Assigns day-to-day work activities; directs the functional and technical job performance of team members within the region.3. Allocate and direct staffing needs to meet patient, unit, and department needs, and collaborate with others toensure overall clinical nutrition staffing needs are met at each hospital.4. Advocate to expand and promote the role of Clinical Nutrition throughout each facility.5. Manage performance including: setting goals, clarifying job expectations, monitoring performance progress,providing feedback, recognizing, developing skills and addressing performance issues related to work and ourCommitments using corrective action.6. Establishes goals and oversees implementation of clinical nutrition care based upon the facility's medicaldirection and patient population at CSH (CommonSpirit Health).7. Assesses, develops and revises a nutritional care plan of neonates/ infants, pediatric, adolescent, adult and/orgeriatric patients through documentation in the medical record.8. Evaluates and coordinates hospital nutrition formulary for CSH (CommonSpirit Health). Plans regular andmodified menus based on the current diet manual for CSH (CommonSpirit Health).9. Oversees systems and processes to ensure the strategic and operational objectives of the hospital and thedepartment requirements are met. Complies with regulatory agencies, including federal, state, JCAHO and CMSas evidenced by successful completion of surveys with no deficiencies.

10. Drive performance improvement and quality management projects.11. Visits patients in an assigned nursing unit or area and helps ensure that every patient is visited by a member of the management or professional team as needed during their hospital stay.12. Is an active member on the CSH Nutrition Council.

 

The job summary and responsibilities listed above are designed to indicate the general nature of the work performed within this job. They are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all job responsibilities required of employees assigned to this job. Employees may be required to perform other duties as assigned.

 

**This position is tentatively set to start 2/2/2025. It will support five Utah hospitals, including Holy Cross- Davis, Jordan Valley, Jordan Valley West, Mountain Point, and Salt Lake locations.** 

Qualifications

In addition to bringing humankindness to the workplace each day, qualified candidates will need the following:

 

Education/Experience: 

 

• Three (3) years acute hospital or similar experience working with patients including complex levels of care to specialized populations.
• Bachelor's Degree (prior to 2024 graduates) with completion of accredited dietetics program (ACEND - Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition Dietetics). Master’s Degree required for 2024 (and beyond) graduates.
• Prior management experience preferred (such as clinical nutrition management, foodservice management, etc.).

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