Dietitian - Community Health Education

Description

The Outpatient Registered Dietitian functions independently providing education to patients in various settings such as group, individual and telephone contact. This position is responsible for researching, developing, implementing and evaluating education programs for patients, staff and the community.

Providence caregivers are not simply valued – they’re invaluable. Join our team at Providence Medical Foundation and thrive in our culture of patient-focused, whole-person care built on understanding, commitment, and mutual respect. Your voice matters here, because we know that to inspire and retain the best people, we must empower them.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Food or Nutrition Science.
• National CDR Registered Dietitian - Commission on Dietetic Registration upon hire.
• One (1) year working in an outpatient healthcare setting.
• One (1) year experience as a Registered Dietitian in an outpatient education department teaching patients (adults and children) in group and individual settings.
• Experience with providing MNT and individual counseling.
• Experience with teaching and modeling self-management skills, concepts, resources and tools related to health, lifestyle change and behavior modification to class participants.
• Experience with working with patients with chronic diseases and other primary prevention programs.
• Experience with program planning, implementation, evaluation and education training.
• Experience with Microsoft Word or windows environment and an email system.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Nutritional Science, Public Health, Health Education, or related field.
• Additional specialty certification related to department and patient needs (e.g., weight management, cancer care, pediatric issues, renal, and exercise instruction) upon hire.
• Pediatric nutrition therapy certifications upon hire.
• Experience working with patients with chronic diseases, exercise instruction, children’s health issues and other primary prevention programs and topics.
• Pediatric nutrition therapy experience.
• PowerPoint, Access, and GroupWise experience.

Why Join Providence?

Our best-in-class benefits are uniquely designed to support you and your family in staying well, growing professionally, and achieving financial security. We take care of you, so you can focus on delivering our Mission of caring for everyone, especially the most vulnerable in our communities.

About Providence

At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of “Know me, care for me, ease my way.” Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we’ll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.

The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.

Check out our benefits page for more information about our Benefits and Rewards.

About the Team

Providence Physician Enterprise (PE) is a service line within Providence serving patients across seven states with quality, compassionate, coordinated care. Collectively, our medical groups and affiliate practices are the third largest group in the country with over 11,000 providers, 900 clinics and 30,000 caregivers.

PE is comprised of Providence Medical Group in Alaska, Washington, Montana and Oregon; Swedish Medical Group in Washington’s greater Puget Sound area, Pacific Medical Centers in western Washington; Kadlec in southeast Washington; Providence’s St. John’s Medical Foundation in Southern California; Providence Medical Institute in Southern California; Providence Facey Medical Foundation in Southern California; Providence Medical Foundation in Northern and Southern California; and Covenant Medical Group and Covenant Health Partners in west Texas and eastern New Mexico.

We are committed to the principle that every workforce member has the right to work in surroundings that are free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment.

We are committed to cultural diversity and equal employment for all individuals. It is our policy to recruit, hire, promote, compensate, transfer, train, retain, terminate, and make all other employment-related decisions without regard to race, color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), national origin (including certain language use restrictions), ancestry, disability (mental and physical including HIV and AIDS), medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, marital status, age, sex (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, and military and veteran status or any other applicable legally protected status. We will also provide reasonable accommodation to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified caregiver or applicant for employment, unless the accommodation would impose undue hardship on the operation of our business.

We are a community where all people, regardless of differences, are welcome, secure, and valued. We value respect, appreciation, collaboration, diversity, and a shared commitment to serving our communities. We expect that all workforce members in our community will act in ways which reflect a commitment to and accountability for, racial and social justice and equality in the workplace. As such, we will maintain a workplace free of discrimination and harassment based on any applicable legally protected status. We also expect that all workforce members will maintain a positive workplace free from any unacceptable conduct which creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment.

Requsition ID: 228186

Company: Providence Jobs

Job Category: Clinical Nutrition Services

Job Function: Clinical Care

Job Schedule: Full time

Job Shift: Day

Career Track: Clinical Professional

Department: 7520 COMMUNITY HEALTH EDUCATION CA HERITAGE SERVICES 1

Address: CA Santa Ana 2212 E 4th St

Work Location: St Joseph Heritage Medical Grp-Santa Ana

Pay Range: $31.77 - $51.29

The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.

Check out our benefits page for more information about our Benefits and Rewards.

Providence is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Providence does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, disability, veteran, military status, religion, age, creed, national origin, sexual identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law.

Salary : $32 - $51