PACE REGISTERED DIETITIAN

The Registered Dietitian contributes and participates as a health care team member to provided needed nutritional counseling service to individuals and families; serves as a nutrition consultant to staff; assist in the development of nutritional educational materials; participates and takes charge of the nutrition component of agency projects.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

- Develops and implements age appropriate, linguistically correct, and culturally sensitive tools for nutritional counseling on both normal and therapeutic diets.

- Assesses patient needs, establishes priorities, designs, develops, recommends, updates, implements and evaluates programs, curriculum, materials, protocol, procedures and standards for nutrition education/health education.

- Conducts Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) upon physical referrals.

- Documents accurately and thoroughly in the Participants’ electronic health record in accordance with industry and departmental standards including time requirements.

- Contributes and assists in the development and periodic updates of the Nutrition EHR templates for charting.

- Implements nutrition care to include follow up and referrals to government, community and/or other NEMS for continuity of nutrition care.

- Develops meal plans as appropriate to meet member’s lifestyle, socio-economic background, age, culture, diagnosis and religious affiliation.

- Develops and maintains Nutrition protocols up to date.

- Establishes relationships with community agencies for patient referrals.

- Assists in the development of handouts on nutritional educational materials.

- Utilizes Epic appropriately and efficiently and serve as content and workflow expert for resolving issues and proposing solutions in Epic.

- Performs home visits as necessary.

- Performs other job duties as required by manager/supervisor.