Sr Dietitian Nutritionist

Primary Purpose

Orients, mentors, and trains team members and dietetic interns as applicable as well as have a participatory role in Education, Leadership, and Quality Components of the Clinical Ladder. May independently place feeding tubes in accordance with hospital policy. May perform body composition and metabolic testing. Functions as an active member of the health care team, collaborating with all disciplines to provide the highest quality nutritional care.  Assesses nutritional needs for optimal care of neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric age groups and culturally diverse populations based on disease specific needs.  Assessment, education, and documentation of medical nutrition therapy for patients reflect interdisciplinary care and up-to-date nutritional knowledge.    Contributes to the development and completion of departmental goals and outcomes projects.

 

 

Major Responsibilities 

• Orients, mentors, and trains team members and dietetic interns as applicable. 
• May independently place feeding tubes in accordance with hospital policy 
• May perform body composition and metabolic testing. 
• Participatory role in Education, Leadership, and Quality components of the clinical ladder.  
• Adheres to the hospital and departmental policies and procedures promoting a cooperative work environment.
• Demonstrates a personal responsibility and commitment to customer service and satisfaction by utilizing communication skills to interact with patients, customers, and staff to develop interpersonal relationships and team building. 
• Complies with Sodexo standards.  Department maintains a minimum average Gold Check score of silver.
• Performing physical assessments and assessing nutritional needs of patients according to departmental and evidence-based standards.
• Participating in interdisciplinary clinical rounds and programs to provide optimum nutrition care and improve patient outcomes.
• Demonstrating knowledge and use of current literature and evidence-based guidelines/practices in providing appropriate and competent nutritional care.
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of patient outcomes and patient care services to achieve hospital and departmental goals.
• Providing nutrition information to health care professionals, students, patients, caregivers and the community to promote optimal nutritional health and therapeutic outcomes.
• Ensuring age/developmentally appropriate patient care.
• Demonstrating appropriate, competent and timely nutritional care for transplant patients to meet hospital and regulatory standards, as applicable.
• Providing timely outpatient documentation and charging that supports hospital/department standards, as applicable.
• Collaborating routinely to reduce the impact of no-shows and optimize clinic productivity to meet hospital/department goals, as applicable.

 

Minimum Job Requirements

Education

Master Degree in human nutrition, foods and nutrition, biological sciences or dietetics required or a Bachelor’s degree if Licensed before January 1, 2024.

Certification / License

Registration by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Commission on Dietetic Registration is required.  Active licensure by the NC Board of Dietetics/Nutrition is required according to policy

Work Experience

• Minimum of 3 years

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with medical and nursing staff, patients, employees and the general public. 
• Computer literacy.

 

See the Wake Dietitian Nutritionist Career Ladder for details on the other requirements for this level of the Ladder.

 

 

Reporting Structure

 

 

Preferred Job Requirements

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Certification / License

 

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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 co