Williamsport-South is looking for a Per Diem Registered Dietitian to complete our team!

The Dietitian assumes professional responsibility and accountability for the Dietary Services Department that provides nourishing, platable well-balanced diets to meet the daily nutritional and special dietary needs of each resident according to their comprehensive resident assessment and plan of care. Provides consultation to Director of Food Service.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Completing and updating dietary assessments as part of the comprehensive resident assessment process.
• Interviews residents, interested family members, legal representatives and significant others to obtain update information needed to develop individualized dietary plans of care, to accomodate individual needs and preferences and to protect and promote resident rights.
• Works cooperatively with members of the interdisciplinary team to develop, implement and evaluate plans of care.
• Attends care conferences; communicates resident concerns and responses to interventionist to interdisciplinary team members and direct care staff.
• Records progress notes in the clinical record including subjective findings, objective symptoms, observations of behavior, interventions provided to residents and resident's responses to dietary interventions.
• Audits progress notes of Director of Food Services for completion and accuracy.
• Identifies ways to accomodate resident's choices, preferences and customary routines in matters of eating. Includes these approaches in plan of care and gives this information to direct care staff.

Bedrock Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer, for more information please contact Human Resources at 570-323-3758.