What are the responsibilities and job description for the Pediatric Registered Dietitian, GI position at Pediatric Specialists of Virginia?
PSV has an exciting employment opportunity for an experienced Registered Dietitian to join their dedicated team of healthcare professionals! This specific role will be supporting PSV’s Gastroenterology Clinic in our Fairfax, VA location. This position is working full-time Monday - Friday. Clinical hours range between 8:00am – 5:00pm.
PSV offers a comprehensive benefits package: including medical, dental, vision, life, short and long-term disability insurance, 401k plan, holidays, paid time off and a fun work environment. Come join our team! All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability.
The Pediatric Specialists of Virginia (PSV) Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition team are dedicated to the care of infants, children, and adolescents with stomach, digestive, liver, and nutritional disorders. Our specialists are dedicated to caring only for children, which means we are also specialists in addressing the unique needs of children and families living with these disorders.
Overview
The Registered Dietitian is responsible for providing safe therapeutic nutritional care in a comprehensive and systematic way by integrating knowledge, skills, and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum. The Registered Dietitian will communicate effectively and work cooperatively with other clinical disciplines using a collaborative approach toward patient outcomes. He or she will act as a resource to physicians, nurses and other allied professional health care team members to provide patients with optimum nutritional care and education.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Performs a comprehensive nutrition assessment by analyzing and interpreting data from multiple sources.
- Formulates an individualized nutrition plan of care based on assessment findings, interpreting trends in patient populations to achieve best practice.
- Coordinates the nutrition care plan with the physician and other health care providers and serves as a resource in the integration into the comprehensive plan of care for the patient.
- Advocates patient rights from the family/patient perspective; provides counsel and acts as a resource to resolve issues.
- Provides appropriate documentation in the medical record summarizing the nutrition care plan; including nutrition assessment, diagnosis, plan implementation and progress toward goals. Assists health care team members with documentation related to nutrition.
- Assess educational needs of patients and families and provides appropriate nutrition education/counseling.
- Develops/revises standards for patient populations, incorporating a multidisciplinary approach and utilizing best practices.
- Participates in planning and developing nutrition-related policies, procedures and goals.
- Additional duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications Required
- Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition or other related field.
- At least two (2) years of experience in healthcare environment.
- Registered as a Dietitian by the Commission on Dietetic Registration for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
- Experience with Electronic Medical Records systems.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- All employees must pass an employment TB, drug and physical exam.
- Desired Qualifications
- At least three (3) years of experience working in a pediatric medical group or healthcare setting.
- CSP certification desired.
- Prior use of EPIC System.
- Bilingual in Spanish desired.
Physical Demands of Position
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, walk and talk or hear; and type on a keyboard. He/she may be required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; stand, use hands to finger, handle, or feel and climb or balance. The employee may be required to lift and/or move up to fifty (50) pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include near vision, and distance vision and ability to adjust focus.