Dietetic Technician (NDTR)

Bedrock Care is seeking a Dietetic Technician (NDTR) at our Milton and Watsontown locations! Apply today!

Under the direction of the Director of Food & Nutrition, the Dietetic Technician (NDTR) assumes professional responsibility and accountability for the Dietary Services Department that provides nourishing, palatable, well-balanced diets to meet the daily nutritional and special dietary needs of each resident according to their comprehensive resident assessment and plan of care. 

Job Duties: 

• Completes and updates dietary assessments as part of the comprehensive resident assessment process. 
• Interviews residents, interested family members, legal representatives, and significant others to obtain and update information needed to develop individualized dietary plans of care, to accommodate individual needs and preferences, and to protect and promote residents' rights.
• Works cooperatively with members of the interdisciplinary team to develop, implement, and evaluate plans of care. Attends care conferences.
• Uses the Nutrition Care Process to document subjective findings, objective symptoms, observations of behavior, interventions provided to resident, and residents' responses to dietary interventions. Coordinates with the registered dietitian.
• Identifies ways to accommodate resident's individualized choices, preferences, and customary routines in matters of eating. 
• Cooperates with other departments and interdisciplinary team to identify and accommodate individual resident needs and preferences. Communicates directly with residents, families, and legal representatives to identify approaches that will protect and promote residents' rights.
• Conducts regular meal observations, reviews records, and interviews staff and residents to ensure that all residents are receiving food in the amount, type, consistency, and frequency to maintain usual weight and nutritional values.
• Assists the registered dietitians to meet the needs of the department.

Job Qualifications: 

• Associates degree within relevant field.
• Current active registration by the Commission on Dietetic Registration of the American Dietetic Association.
• One year professional food service experience in an institutional health care setting which includes identification of dietary needs, planning, and implementation of dietary programs.

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.