Registered Dietitian / Clinical Nutrition Health Coach

Summary: Provide clinical expertise in prescriptive nutrition guidance for complex chronic condition management. Collaborate with certified health coaches, clinical pharmacists, and other staff to deliver patient-centered, provider-led, and technology-enabled care that drives optimal health outcomes.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Act as a clinical nutrition advisor to certified health coaches and clinical pharmacists.
• Collaborate with Manager of Health & Wellness Programs to develop and implement prescriptive nutrition protocols for patients with complex chronic conditions.
• Provide education and consultations to eligible members of the Tria Health program.
  • Complete consultations, outlining program requirements and ensuring patient understanding of Choose to Lose (Tria’s weight loss program).
  • Collaborate with Clinical team members to facilitate case reviews and contribute to care-planning for complex chronic disease management cases.
  • Monitor patient progress and adjust nutrition plans based on goals and outcomes.
• Lead continuing education initiatives for Clinical department team on nutrition and chronic disease management.
• Provide continuity of care to the patient load assigned.
• Assist with development of Tria Health’s nutrition-related programming, including app content, educational materials, and patient engagement strategies.
• Serve as a clinical resource for members, clients, brokers, Third Party Administrators, peers, and coworkers.
• Assist with training of coworkers from other departments upon request.
• Offer evening appointment availability to accommodate patient needs.
• Work in other functional areas to cover absences or relief, to equalize peak work periods or otherwise to balance the workload.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Commitment to the Tria Health mission statement, motto, core values and employee handbook.

Education/Experience:

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in nutrition or related healthcare field.
• Preferred: Master’s degree in nutrition or related healthcare field.
• Required: Registered Dietitian (RD or RDN).
• Preferred: Certification in Health Coaching (NBC-HWC) or CDE (Certified Diabetes Educator).
• Required: 2–3 years of direct patient care experience in nutrition counseling, including the development and implementation of individualized clinical dietary prescriptions for chronic disease management.

Job Competencies:

• Read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, governmental regulations, and clinical literature.
• Write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Effective communication skills are required to succeed in this position.
• Solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists is desired.
• Interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or scheduled form.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Word, Access, Excel, Database software, E-mail, and Internet.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands and work environment 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.

• Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the individual is regularly required to stand, bend, kneel, sit, walk, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. The vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. Individual must occasionally lift and/or move up to 5 pounds.
• Work Environment: This job operates in a professional office environment where standard office equipment such as computer, phones, copiers, filing cabinets, and printers are utilized. The noise level in the work environment is usually minimal.
• Location: Tria Health is located at 1729 Grand Boulevard, Kansas City, MO (Crossroads area). This is not a remote job position, but a hybrid schedule can be utilized after training.
• Hours: 40-hour workweek, Monday – Friday with 1 evening shift (12:30-9).

*This job description should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements and may be changed at any time.