Per Diem Registered Dietitian

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Job Details

Position: Per Diem Registered Dietitian

Location: Wichita, Kansas

Schedule: Flexible

Hours: Varies (Coverage of Dietitian's vacation or vacancy)

Hourly Rate: $40/hour

Responsibilities:

• Establishes and maintains policies, standards and programs for the provision of optimal, cost-effective nutrition care to residents. This includes coordinating and directing all clinical activities.
• Maintains goals and objectives for Clinical Nutrition to maintain high quality care.
• Utilizes equipment, resources and programs to provide efficient and high quality care.
• Recognizes and adopts activities appropriate to the specific needs of the resident population and demonstrates knowledge of specific issues directly related to age of resident population.
• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with other facility departments to provide a unified approach to resident care.
• Develops, implements and documents in service education programs for Registered Dietitians, Dietitians, and Dietetic Interns and other nutrition personnel to provide continuing education and training.
• May engage in and encourages staff to participate in research, submits to professional publications and professional and community lectures.
• Maintains and establishes systems and training programs to provide a safe working environment. Complies with all OSHA regulations and other local, state and federal government regulations.
• Maintains compliance with NexDine standards of operation and client contract. Maintains all records and reports necessary to comply with NexDine, government and accrediting agency standards, regulations and codes.
• Maintains registration status through the Commission on Dietetic Registration and Licensure through the state board.
• Maintains professional continuing education annually.
• Maintains compliance with all requirements of Federal, State and local regulations and guidelines including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, as amended, and the Americans with Disabilities Act, as amended.

Qualifications

The position is an experienced Registered Dietitian, and requires at least two years of clinical nutrition experience.

Registration Requirements

• Completed a minimum of a bachelor’s degree at a US regionally accredited university or college and course work accredited or approved by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND) of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
• Completed an ACEND-accredited supervised practice program at a health-care facility, community agency, or a foodservice corporation or combined with undergraduate or graduate studies.
• Pass a national examination administered by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR).
• Obtain / Maintain required state licensure to practice dietetics.