Dietitian

Role Overview

Dietitian at NMC Healthcare. This role delivers nutrition care to residents served by Americare Home Health Services across acute care, home health, and community settings.

Role Purpose

Provide comprehensive, evidence-based nutrition care to adult and pediatric populations, ensuring timely assessment, individualized care planning, and patient and caregiver education while maintaining compliance with DOH and organizational standards.

Key Responsibilities

Assessment and Care Planning

• Deliver comprehensive, evidence-based nutrition care to all residents, ensuring initial nutrition assessment within 72 hours of admission or as per service policy, with clearly defined intervention goals.
• Conduct detailed nutritional assessments using anthropometric, biochemical, clinical, and dietary methods to identify nutrition-related problems, estimate nutrient requirements, and guide treatment planning for adult and pediatric patients.
• Develop, implement, and review nutrition care plans for both adult and pediatric patients, addressing medical conditions, developmental needs, feeding challenges, and cultural or religious dietary considerations.
• Evaluate prescribed diets and make necessary recommendations or modifications based on medical condition, growth patterns, and tolerance.
• Evaluate appropriateness of enteral nutrition support, including energy, protein, and adequacy of fluid provisions, making timely and professional recommendations.

Documentation and Compliance

• Document all assessments, interventions, and progress in the medical record accurately and in compliance with facility and DOH documentation standards.
• Renew and validate job-specific competencies every two years or as required, ensuring continued compliance with DOH and Americare Home Health standards.

Collaboration and Communication

• Collaborate closely with nursing and physicians to support screening, nutritional monitoring, and timely follow-up for all patients.
• Communicate effectively within the multidisciplinary team regarding patient progress, dietary modifications, allergies, and nutritional risk.

Education and Outreach

• Educate patients, families, caregivers, and sitters on diet modification, feeding techniques, and appropriate nutrition management for adults, children, and medically complex patients.
• Develop and update patient and caregiver education materials, menus, and resources specific to adult, pediatric, and homecare populations.
• Contribute to community and caregiver education initiatives, promoting awareness of nutrition's role in recovery, chronic disease management, and pediatric growth and development.

Safeguarding and Ethical Practice

• Identify and report any signs of developmental delay, neglect, or safeguarding concerns following organizational policies and procedures.
• Maintain clear professional and clinical boundaries when working with both adult and pediatric populations, ensuring all interventions are developmentally appropriate, ethically sound, and aligned with family-centered and culturally sensitive care principles.

Quality, Policy, and Professional Development

• Assist in reviewing and developing departmental policies, procedures, and nutrition protocols that support best practices across all care environments.
• Participate actively in quality improvement, risk management, and accreditation readiness activities related to nutrition care delivery and patient safety.
• Support the management of departmental and physical resources, including participation in procurement decisions for nutrition-related equipment and materials.
• Maintain ongoing competency in adult and pediatric nutrition practice through structured professional development, evidence-based learning, and reflective practice.
• Refer to the Knowledge, Skills, and Attitude Framework and Competency Summary Record for Allied Health for the detailed list of dietetics-specific competencies required for safe and effective practice across all age groups.

Qualifications & Experience

Education

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university.
• Supervised practice program or practicum completion.
• National exam from country of origin.
• Accredited seminars and continuing education programs.

Experience

• Minimum 10 years in acute care setup with major duties in ICUs and inpatient wards.

Certification and Licensure

• HAAD licensed.
• Completed at least 14 CME points yearly.

Skills & Competencies

• Familiar and experienced with HAAD policies and procedures.
• Experience with JCIA.