Dietician I PD

Job Summary:
Provides nutrition education and clinical services within established guidelines.Essential Responsibilities:

• Essential Duties:

• Upholds Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities and applicable state, federal and local laws.

• Participates in establishing department strategic goals and priorities.

• Assesses member needs, establishes priorities, designs, develops, recommends, updates, implements and evaluates programs, curriculum, materials (written and audiovisual), protocols, procedures and standards for health/nutrition education.

• Plans, participates and evaluates community events and coordinates use of community resources as appropriate.

• Implements nutrition care plans to include follow-up and referrals to government, community and/or other Kaiser Permanente facilities for continuity of nutrition care.

• Educates/counsels members, family and caregivers regarding health and nutrition on an individual or group setting (classes).

• Develops meal plans as appropriate to meet members lifestyle, socio-economic background, age, culture, diagnosis and religious affiliation.

• Consults and educates physicians and other healthcare providers regarding member and population specific nutrition/health related issues.

• Participates in multidisciplinary care teams and committees.

• Collects data, plans, prepares and implements reports for performance improvement and/or quality assurance audits.

• Develops grants and proposals for health/nutrition programs.

• Plans, conducts and evaluates in-service education programs for department staff, the multidisciplinary care team and physicians.

• Individual Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT):

• Provides high quality, evidence-based, efficient, customer-focused MNT, including nutrition screening, assessment, care planning and education for appropriate nutrition intervention.

• Develops, implements, and monitors ongoing plan of care based on the screening and assessment of the patient specific nutrition care plans/education and based on the patients age, nutrition and psychosocial status, diagnosis, cultural background and religious affiliation.

• Other duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications:
Experience

• Previous experience in providing and coordinating health education services (usually 1 year) and/or hospital experience.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Food/Nutrition or related field.

License, Certification, Registration

• National Provider Identifier required at hire

• Registered Dietitian within six (6) months of hire

Additional Requirements:

• Strong interpersonal and written communication skills.

• Demonstrates working knowledge of mainframe and personal computing systems.

• Demonstrates highly effective interpersonal, written and verbal communications.

• Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership Environment.

• Must be a Registered Dietitian (RD), as confirmed by the Commission on Dietetic Registration.

• Pre-RDs may be considered if:

• 1. candidate has completed the Supervised Practice Program (SPP) for RDs, AND

• 2. not more than six (6) months has passed since completing the SPP, AND

• 3. candidate has not previously

Location: San Diego, CA, US

Posted Date: 11/29/2024