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Weight Loss Center Registered Dietitian

Singing River Health System Hospital - Ocean Springs | Full-Time | M-F, 8-5 |
Ocean Springs, Mississippi
United States

Position Overview:
The Registered Dietitian performs the functions of clinical nutrition services, such as nutritional assessment, modified diet formulations, nutrition counseling/consultation, as well as management and education necessary to provide quality nutrition care to in patients, out patients, and employees. He/She is responsible for therapeutic diet teaching and counseling, patient visitation and nutritional support services. The Registered Dietitian ensures patient satisfaction, quality care, regulatory agency compliance, and achieve good public relations through the safe and efficient use of resources.  The Registered Dietitian must be able to accept limited responsibility and authority. He/She must demonstrate the ability to work under pressure and accept constructive criticism. The Registered Dietitian must be capable of displaying courtesy and politeness to patients, visitors, medical staff and other hospital employees. He/She must be able to demonstrate appropriate clinical judgment and apply professional skills to a patient population of all ages.  Expectation is for all performed duties to be in accordance with Singing River Health System procedures and policies, accreditation organization, and governing guidance and publications for health care employees.

DISCLAIMER: This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the job. While this intends to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks performed as assigned.

Education:
A Bachelor’s Degree from a regionally accredited university or college and course work accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Dietetics Education (CADE) of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

License:
N/A

Certification:
Required: Current registration by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics or meets eligibility requirements to complete the registration examination (must pass the exam within 6 months of hire); licensed by the State of Mississippi as a Licensed Dietitian; credentialed as a Registered Dietitian by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR).
Must complete continuing professional educational requirements to maintain all required registration(s) and certification(s).

Experience:
Two (2) years’ experience as a Registered Dietitian in a healthcare setting.

Reports to:
Dietary Manger

Supervises:
Assigned personnel

Physical Demands:
Work is moderately active: involves sitting with frequent requirements to move about the office, move about the facility, and to travel to another facility within the SRHS service area.  Work involves exerting a negligible amount of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body.  Employee is responsible for safely moving, lifting and handling all supplies, equipment and patients, with assistance, up to 50 pounds. Expected to use safe lifting practices in all areas of job performance and employees are responsible to request help whenever needed, regardless of the weight, using available assistance, i.e. lifting devices or additional staff.

Must be able to be active for extended periods without experiencing undue fatigue.  Must be able to work schedules assigned with the understanding that changes may occur according to the needs of the hospital for off days, shifts or weekends.

Mental Demands:
Must demonstrate keen mental faculties/assessment and decision making abilities.  Must demonstrate superior communication/speaking/enunciation skills to receive and give information in person and by telephone.  Must demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills.  Must possess emotional stability conducive to dealing with high stress levels.Must demonstrate ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
Attention to detail and the ability to multi-task in complex situations is required.  Must have the ability to maintain collaborative and respectable working relationships throughout SRHS and other organizations. Must have strong analytical and interpersonal skills.

Special Demands:
Maintain good critical thinking skills.  Must possess superior customer service skills and professional etiquette. Must demonstrate expertise in planning, organizing and integrating complex and interdepartmental programs, function independently, establish excellent rapport with physicians and other hospital/health care professionals, and must communicate effectively in written and verbal forms.  Must possess superior customer service skills and professional etiquette.  Must possess proficient knowledge and ability to use a computer (must be keyboard proficient) and other office technology (i.e., telephone, fax, etc.), MS Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Knowledge of nutrition and dietary principles. Knowledge of relationship between nutrition and disease.

Job requires traveling throughout the SRHS service area – with employee providing his/her own transportation.  Work requires the ability to function independently, adapt to workload demands, set priorities, understand, and set goals.  Must possess highly developed organizational, planning and management writing skills. Must understand the fundamentals of automated data processing, and be able gain a detailed understanding of complex computerized and non-computerized information in allotted timeframe.