DieteticTechnician-NutritionServices

**Overview:** This position allows staff with diet tech training to work with patient diets and improve the patient’s nutrition status. Involved in day-to-day food service management and patient feeding. Schedule: Works every other weekend and holiday, some flexibility in day hours. **Job Description Summary:** Screens patient medical records for nutritional risk factors and assessment needs, obtains clinical information, and provides nutritional care, basic dietary instructions, and general nutrition education. **Job Description:** **Essential Functions:** * Assesses nutritional needs of patients by reviewing medical records and conducting interviews. * Develops and implements nutrition care plans based on patient needs and medical conditions. * Monitors and evaluates patient progress, adjusting nutrition care plans as needed. * Provides nutrition education to patients and their families. * Maintains accurate and complete patient records. * Collaborates with other healthcare professionals to ensure comprehensive patient care. **Education Requirement:** Associate's Degree in Nutrition from an Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) approved program, required. **Licensure Requirement:** (not specified) **Certifications:** Dietetic Technician Registered, (DTR) or Registration Eligible with completion of exam within 3 months of hire, required. **Skills:** * Highly proficient technical skills. * Ability to work accurately and efficiently in various organizational systems. **Experience:** * Experience as a dietetic technician, preferred. * Clinical pediatric experience, preferred. **Physical Requirements:** OCCASIONALLY: Bend/twist, Blood and/or Bodily Fluids, Communicable Diseases and/or Pathogens, Hand use: grasping, gripping, turning, Lifting / Carrying: 0-10 lbs, Loud Noises, Patient Equipment, Peripheral vision, Pushing / Pulling: 0-25 lbs, Reaching above shoulder, Squat/kneel FREQUENTLY: Audible speech, Color vision, Depth perception, Seeing – Far/near, Sitting, S