Registered Dietitian

About This Role

This role involves completing nutritional assessments and documentation in accordance with state and federal regulations for residents in long-term care and rehabilitation centers. The dietitian will provide nutritional expertise and dietary oversight to facility kitchen operations, ensuring nutritional adequacy and quality of meals.

Responsibilities

• Complete required nutritional assessments and documentation according to state and federal regulations
• Plan and write menu cycles, ensuring nutritional adequacy in menus for the specific population according to regulations
• Oversee the serving of food and the quality of food served
• Keep inventories of nutritional supplements and products for special diets, including tube feeding formulas, various nutritional supplements, thickener packets, and liquid thickeners
• Work with Nursing to provide nutritional supplements for wound care for all residents and implement, change, or discontinue appropriate nutritional interventions as part of the wound healing process
• Provide diet and nutrition education to residents, family members, and staff as needed during care plan meetings and on an ongoing basis
• Monitor nutritional status of residents in long-term care and Rehab center
• Complete nutritional assessments and complete/review RAI, and care plan processes
• Assist facilities in identifying clinical nutrition problems and work toward solutions
• Participate in efforts to improve and maintain acceptable clinical indicators

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Nutrition or Dietetics
• Completion of the required program and internship
• Passing score on Registered Dietitian Examination by the Commission on Dietetic Registration
• Currently licensed as a Registered Dietitian and eligible to practice in the State of Massachusetts
• Experience in healthcare food service working in a Dietitian position or a similar environment
• Long Term Care/Skilled facility experience

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Nutrition or Dietetics, plus completion of the required program and internship
• Experience in healthcare food service working in a Dietitian position or a similar environment is required. Must have Long Term Care/Skilled facility experience.

Nice to Have

• ServSafe or other similar national food safety certification

Benefits