Registered Dietitian

Summary:

Open Roads Behavioral Health is seeking a compassionate, skilled, and motivated Registered Dietician (RD) to play a key role in the growth of our Adolescent Eating Disorder Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP). This is an exciting opportunity to join a mission-driven organization that prioritizes access to high-quality care for Medicaid-insured and marginalized populations. You will help shape treatment that is trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and rooted in evidence-based practice.

The RD reports to the Clinical Director of Open Roads Behavioral Health and is responsible for providing a range of services for adolescents experiencing eating disorders, including assessment/diagnostics, individualized treatment planning, general nutritional information, psychoeducation, and/or meal support. The overall responsibility of the RD involves coordinating nutritional aspects of care for the clients on their caseload to enable them to improve their relationship with food and develop healthy eating habits. The RD will work 

alongside other members of a multidisciplinary treatment team to ensure the client’s nutrition treatment goals are clear, consistently executed, and actively monitored.

Essential Functions:

· Provide evidence-based individual and group nutrition services, including meal support, nutrition education, family support, and nutrition-focused counseling.

· Maintain a caseload of individual clients, delivering individualized nutrition care in alignment with the client's treatment plan and recovery goals.

· Develop, implement, and regularly update individualized nutrition care plans to support clients' clinical, medical, and psychological needs.

· Assess clients’ medical stability and nutritional progress to ensure alignment with clinical level of care criteria; make recommendations and assist clients in transitioning through appropriate levels of care.

· Collaborate closely with a multidisciplinary treatment team, including therapists, medical providers, and other outpatient providers or support systems to ensure coordinated, comprehensive care.

· Actively participate in treatment team meetings, clinical supervision, and ongoing professional development trainings.

· Accurately and promptly complete documentation of all nutrition services, assessments, and interventions in accordance with organizational policies and professional standards.

· Support the creation and implementation of meal plans and therapeutic meals, ensuring they meet clinical objectives and client needs.

· Complete required documentation for all services provided in accordance with policies and procedures.

· Perform other duties as assigned, with flexibility to adapt to changing program demands and client needs.

Why Join Open Roads?

· Be part of a growing, mission-driven team expanding access to eating disorder care in underserved communities.

· Help shape and strengthen a new Adolescent Eating Disorder IOP.

· Access ongoing training, supervision, and professional development opportunities.

· Contribute to a program that bridges the gap between mental health equity and evidence-based clinical care.

· Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition at minimum

· Registered Dietician license in Illinois

· Minimum of 2 years prior experience treating individuals with eating disorders

· Previous experience at higher levels of care is highly desirable

· Highly preferred: two years of documented clinical experience in a mental health setting under the supervision of a QMHP.

Working Conditions:

· Work is typically in an office setting.

· Work hours typically consist of 3 days/wk from 8:30-1:30 and 2 days/wk from 11:45-6pm. The IOP runs from 8:30-3pm (evening hours to allow for family sessions)

Salary : $35 - $45