Nutritional Consultant

3HC Home Health and Hospice
Nutritional Consultant
PRN Hours. 

Compassionate Care is our Calling

3HC has provided compassionate care to North Carolinians since 1981. We strive to ensure our patients enjoy life’s journey, recover quickly, live comfortably and face “end of life” with dignity.  We believe in providing high-quality, cost-effective care that surpasses industry standards. If you want to make a difference, provide meaningful one-on-one care, and develop relationships with both your patients and team members, then join Team 3HC and reach your personal & professional best.

Summary:

The Nutrition Consultant is responsible for serving as a consultant to homecare professionals and provides nutritional care to high-risk agency patients.

Qualification Requirements

• Bachelor of Science Degree from an accredited college or university with a major in nutrition and diet therapy or two-years of recent dietician experience.


• Registration through the American Dietetic Association and current North Carolina licensure required.

Essential Functions

• Abides by and supports 3HC's Compliance Program and Code of Ethics. 3HC's Compliance motto is "Compliance for all and all for Compliance". It is the intent of 3HC to comply with all applicable laws and regulations and that spirit is embedded in all aspects of our services and business practices. Our success hinges on doing things ethically and legally, to which, each and every employee plays a critical role.


• Creates positive experiences for internal and external customers that will meet their expectations. (External customers include our patients, families, referral sources, vendors, the community, etc. Internal customers are the people within the agency with whom you work.) Displays a high degree of courtesy, tact, and knowledge of services provided by the agency in all contact with staff, patients, and visitors.


• Serves as a consultant to homecare professionals: (a) serves as an educational resource to agency personnel, to include providing nutrition in-services, (b) provides educational tools for patients/family members, (c) assesses the nutritional needs of the patients upon request and per Agency policy, (d) assists in the development and implementation of quality improvement program(s) for nutrition service, (e) consults and teaches patients, family members, and staff special delivery regimens and nutritional requirements as appropriate to diagnosis and individual preference, (f) develops policies and procedures related to nutrition services and nutrition care, and maintains updates as indicated by accreditation standards for nutritional care, (g) educates clients, family members, and caregivers on implementing medical nutrition therapy, including therapeutic diets, and (h) identifies or develops nutrition education materials appropriate to agency's patients.


• Documents patient care, prepares and revises clinical and progress notes, identify nutritional problems, intervention plans, and measurable goals with estimated time frames for high-risk patients in the clinical record. Evaluates the effectiveness and outcome of care.


• Demonstrates an interest in personal and professional growth: (a) attends and participates in workshops, seminars, mandatory in-services, webcasts, etc. to keep abreast of current changes in rules, regulations, relating to job functions; and satisfies CEU requirements of the State Board of Nursing, and (b) does individual reading and research.


• Demonstrates a willingness to be cost effective in the use of agency resources, the monitoring of waste, and the proper and safe use of supplies and equipment.


• Adheres to 3HC's Personnel Policy and performs other appropriate duties as assigned by supervisor to promote the successful operations and future growth of 3HC.

Compassionate Care is our Calling

3HC is an equal opportunity employer.  All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex or sexual orientation, age, marital status, gender identity, national veteran or disability status.