What are the responsibilities and job description for the nutritionist position at discover?
Job Summary
As a nutritionist, you’ll assess clients’ nutritional needs and turn clinical findings into practical, individualized care plans. You’ll provide nutrition counseling and health coaching for people with specific dietary needs, chronic conditions, or weight-management goals. Your work may support patients across acute care, hospital, long-term care, and geriatric settings.
Responsibilities
- Conduct patient assessments, diagnostic evaluations, and nutritional analysis; apply physiology knowledge and clinical nutrition principles.
- Develop and update care plans, including medical nutrition therapy (MNT), nutrition support, and tube-feeding recommendations when appropriate.
- Use motivational interviewing and clear client communication to help people make sustainable nutrition changes.
- Collaborate with healthcare professionals on chronic disease management and coordinate care for patients with complex needs.
- Document assessments and plans in electronic medical records (EMR/EHR), maintaining accurate electronic health records (EHR).
Your impact: Individualized nutrition care helps patients and clients make informed choices that support their health and daily well-being.
Experience
- Background in nutrition, dietetics, nutrition counseling, or clinical nutrition; experience with MNT and individuals with specific dietary needs is valuable.
- Familiarity with EMR systems and electronic health records management.
- Experience in hospital, acute care, long-term care, dietary department, or geriatric settings is preferred.
- Health coaching, weight-loss support, nutrition support, and chronic disease management experience are useful.
- Supervising experience is a plus.
Pay: From $26.66 per hour
Work Location: In person
Salary : $27