Clinical Nutrition Specialist

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Job Location (Full Address):

601 Elmwood Ave, Rochester, New York, United States of America, 14642

Opening:

Worker Subtype:

Regular

Time Type:

Full time

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Department:

500061 Nutritional Support Services

Work Shift:

UR - Day (United States of America)

Range:

UR URCE 214

Compensation Range:

$76,689.00 - $103,521.00

Responsibilities:

Provides timely, comprehensive, evidence-based nutritional care and education to patients and families. Acts as a lead, providing direction and support to others and assisting with department operations. Develops learning materials and trains medical staff, dietetic interns and peers. Monitors quality and quantity of work performed in the department. Acts in a manner which is highly responsive to patients' needs and promotes and supports the highest quality nutritional care. Responsible for clinical nutrition advancement through performance improvement processes.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Provides ongoing nutritional assessment, monitoring, evaluation, and education to patients and families. Develops and implements individualized nutrition care plans for patients across the lifecycle, from infants to the elderly, as assigned. Integrates evidence-based research in the education, practice and management of patients.
• Effectively communicates nutrition plans and rationale to team members verbally and in the medical record. Demonstrates the ability to utilize various HIPAA secure patient communication modalities such as Zoom, My Chart, etc.
• Provides education on medical nutrition therapy and food-drug interactions to patients, their families and significant others. Ensures continuity of care when a patient transitions to an alternate level of care within the facility or at discharge. Develops nutrition education materials. Provides lectures to residents, NP’s, and Fellows on Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. Demonstrates advanced clinical skills and knowledge base. Mentors Clinical Nutrition Specialists and Clinical Dietitians. Serves as clinical preceptor to dietetic interns and provides didactic training to nutrition students, peers and other medical professionals, including medical students, surgical residents, fellows, and attendings. Maintains expertise by pursuing pertinent continuing education opportunities.
• Provides direction and support to Clinical Nutrition Specialists and Clinical Dietitians, answering clinical questions and providing resources to staff. Assists in the development of goals and objectives for clinical nutrition. Writes new procedures and training materials and updates existing procedures as needed. Assists with development of training plans and training for new employees. Acts as a liaison between inpatient and outpatient dietitians in field of responsibility. Assists Chief Clinical Dietitian and Clinical Nutrition Manager in preparing performance evaluation data. Acts as authority in the absence of Chief Clinical Dietitian and Clinical Nutrition Manager, exercising good judgment and tact.
• Participates in unit-based, disease-specific and interdisciplinary rounds on a frequent basis and acts as a consultant/resource to all members of the health care team. Participates in weekly nutrition support rounds. Serves as liaison/ambassador between patients/units and foodservice staff.
• Exercises independent judgment and displays advanced decision making. Evaluates literature, new products, and techniques. Develops standards/protocols to ensure consistent, appropriate, evidence based therapies.
• Performs quality assurance monitoring for activities performed/completed in the field of responsibility. Analyzes related data and identifies trends of specific problems and recommends corrective action. Serves on committees for department and hospital initiatives. Represents the department at community nutrition functions. Attends regular department staff meetings as scheduled.
• Other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's degree Accepted if certified by the Commission on Dietetics Registration for degrees received before 1/1/2024 and 2 years experience as a Clinical Nutrition Specialist for Food and Nutrition Services required or Master's degree ACEND certified for degrees received on/after 1/1/2024 And 2 years experience as a Clinical Nutrition Specialist for Food and Nutrition Services required
• Or equivalent combination of education and experience

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Demonstrated proficiency and competent performance of required tasks of a Clinical Nutrition Specialist I or Clinical Nutrition Specialist II.

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS

• RD - Registered Dietitian upon hire required
• Advanced Certification CNSC, CDCES, CSP or other specialist certification in specific area of practice upon hire required

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