What are the responsibilities and job description for the Dietitian position at UPMC?
Join our team as a dedicated Dietitian, where you’ll play a vital role in improving patient health through personalized nutrition care!
This is an in-person position offering daylight shifts (primarily 8 hours) Monday through Friday, with a shared rotation for weekends and holidays among our Registered Dietitians. No travel or on-call duties are required—just the opportunity to focus on delivering exceptional dietary planning and education. If you’re passionate about making a meaningful impact and thrive in a collaborative environment, this role is for you!
Responsibilities:
- Provide quality patient care to diverse patient populations using Medical Nutrition Therapy to include assessment, goals and plan of care.
- Accountable as nutrition liaison/expert to assigned units &/or committees responding to needs and initiatives for nutrition care process improvement.
- Demonstrate effective communication methods as a collaborative member of the interdisciplinary care team.
- As required, knowledgeable about outpatient billing guidelines and performs necessary documentation to ensure compliance of client charges with regulatory requirements.
- Formulate a Nutrition Diagnosis and identify Malnutrition through application of Nutrition Focused Physical Assessment and the nationally established criteria for identification of malnutrition.
- Provide appropriate nutritional education and counseling based upon patient/family learning needs and abilities.
- As required, demonstrate professional writing skills adaptable to all health literacy levels in preparing materials, presentations and other communications.
- Provide timely interventions as determined by Nutrition Risk level and the Plan of Care.
- Participate in department based Quality Process Improvement activities with an ability to actively endorse evidence based practice.
- Appropriate execution of order writing as governed by the Dietitian Delegation Order system protocol.