Sr. Weight Management Dietetic Specialist (Part-Time) - West

Overview

At Houston Methodist, the Sr Weight Management Dietetic Specialist position is an experienced clinician functioning at the requirements established by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND). This position will assess the client's nutritional status using recognized tools of assessment and recommend and instruct clients on the appropriate nutrition plan per the assessment and develops specific patient education content materials for the department and teaches advanced topics for weight management (i.e., healthy cooking classes, home gardening for health, grocery store tours, health behavior change etc.). The Sr. Weight Management Dietetic Specialist position participates in department and quality improvement projects. This position has mastered all functions of the Weight Management Dietetic Specialist role and will serve as a mentor to those peers. The Sr. Weight Management Dietetic Specialist position plans and implements professional nutrition presentations as well as actively participate in planning, instruction, and evaluation of the nutrition component of Houston Methodist Center for Weight Loss & Bariatric Surgery programs and services. This position participates in department and quality improvement projects.

Houston Methodist Standard

PATIENT AGE GROUP(S) AND POPULATION(S) SERVEDRefer to departmental "Scope of Service" and "Provision of Care" plans, as applicable, for description of primary age groups and populations served by this job for the respective HM entity.

HOUSTON METHODIST EXPERIENCE EXPECTATIONS

• Provide personalized care and service by consistently demonstrating our I CARE values:
  • INTEGRITY: We are honest and ethical in all we say and do.
  • COMPASSION: We embrace the whole person including emotional, ethical, physical, and spiritual needs.
  • ACCOUNTABILITY: We hold ourselves accountable for all our actions.
  • RESPECT: We treat every individual as a person of worth, dignity, and value.
  • EXCELLENCE: We strive to be the best at what we do and a model for others to emulate.

• Practices the Caring and Serving Model

• Delivers personalized service using HM Service Standards

• Provides for exceptional patient/customer experiences by following our Standards of Practice of always using Positive Language (AIDET, Managing Up, Key Words)

• Intentionally collaborates with other healthcare professionals involved in patients/customers or employees' experiential journeys to ensure strong communication, ease of access to information, and a seamless experience.

• Involves patients (customers) in shift/handoff reports by enabling their participation in their plan of care as applicable to the given job

• Displays cultural humility, diversity, equity and inclusion principles

• Actively supports the organization's vision, fulfills the mission and abides by the I CARE values

Responsibilities

PEOPLE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Serves in a support and mentor capacity to the Weight Mgmt. Dietetic Specialist while serving in a preceptor role for the department. Creates and maintains all department training resources, e.g. training checklist, dietitian training manual, etc. Acts as a resource person for all nutrition inquiries and provides peer coaching while upholding Houston Methodist and industry standards of professional ethics.

• Creates customized diabetes curriculum and independently trains patients on all aspects of Diabetes Self-Management using therapeutic communication, which includes active listening and teaching; supports Weight Management Dietetic Specialist in mastering DM Self-Management.

• Uses peer-to-peer accountability towards improvement of department score for employee engagement.

SERVICE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Proficiently provides care and assesses patients with complex nutritional needs and comorbidities using recognized tools of assessment.

• Develops specific patient education content materials for the department and teaches advanced topics for weight management (i.e. healthy cooking classes, home gardening for health, grocery store tours, health behavior change etc.).

• Assesses the nutrition content of department programming and adjusts offerings based on center needs, new research, and conflicting social determinants of diet. Corresponds with other interprofessional regarding nutrition care plan as necessary with particular emphasis on behavioral components of eating.

• Initiates improvements towards department score for patient satisfaction, through peer-to-peer accountability to service standards.

QUALITY/SAFETY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Monitors and reassesses clients against initial a