The Inova Health System is seeking a self-motivated, high performing Clinical Registered Dietitian to provide world-class nutrition care for our inpatient population. Our team at Inova Alexandria Hospital is a high performing clinical nutrition team that enjoys working closely with the interdisciplinary team to ensure optimal patient care and mentoring and training new team members. From placing feeding tubes to managing parenteral nutrition to conducting NFPEs, we love what we do and are looking for a team player who is dedicated to inpatient clinical nutrition to join our team. This position full-time (40 hrs/week) working Monday- Friday. We offer great pay based on experience! Plus, don’t forget about our other amazing benefits and perks!

Inova Benefits and Perks:

• Health, Vision, and Dental Coverage
• Tuition reimbursement and Educational Assistance
• Student loan assistance – up to $10,000! 
• State-of-the-art medical and training facilities 
• Paid parental leave for birth/adoption of a child 
• Retirement benefits with match from day one
• Free Parking to all employees
• Exclusive savings opportunities to in-store events, theme parks, discounts, movie tickets and local offerings and so much more!

See Full List of Benefits Here: 2024 INOVA BENEFITS GUIDE

Requirements for consideration:

• Newly certified Registered Dietitians must hold a master’s degree. 
• Dietetic internship or equivalent
• Registered Dietitian (RD)
• Basic Life Support through AHA within 3 months of hire

Job Responsibilities:

• The Dietitian Registered provides safe and therapeutic nutritional care in a comprehensive and systematic manner. 
• Provides clinical services and act as a resource to physicians, nurses and other professional healthcare team members, to provide patients with optimum nutritional care.
• Performs a comprehensive assessment by interpreting multiple, sometimes conflicting, data and synthesizing their interrelationships.
• Formulates an individualized nutrition plan of care based on assessment findings and interpreting trends in patient populations to achieve best practice.
• Anticipates nutritional intervention issues, monitors patient tolerance to nutrition therapy and responds when standards of nutrition care recommend changes.
• Coordinates the nutrition care plan with the physician and other healthcare providers while serving as a resource in the integration of the nutrition care plan into the comprehensive plan of care for the patient.
• Communicates with the healthcare team members, patients and families to maximize patient outcomes.
• Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team to increase practice knowledge and incorporate that knowledge into the nutrition plan of care.
• Provides education to physicians, residents, nurses and other healthcare providers to optimize nutrition therapy outcomes.
• Incorporates research findings into nutrition practice standards, develops/revises patient education programs and participates in the development and revision of patient education materials.
• Performs other duties as assigned.