Lead Registered Dietitian

Job Description

Primary City / State :
Phoenix, Arizona

Department Name :
Culinary & Nutrition-Hosp

Work Shift :
Day

Job Category :
Facilities, Environmental Services, and Culinary

At Banner Health, we’re excited about what the future holds for health care. That’s why we’re changing the industry to make the experience the best it can be. If you’re ready to change lives, we want to hear from you.

As our Registered Dietitian Lead, you will assists with some patient care, but is also a training and education resource for the team. interact closely with our medical providers, our administration, our nursing staff, our therapy teams, and our culinary department on-site to support our patients. Providing comprehensive nutritional assessments, developing appropriate nutrition care plans, monitoring outcomes, providing patient and family nutrition counseling and education, developing Nutrition Standards of Practice and Education material in collaboration with peers, participating in interdisciplinary Health Care teams and providing input into patient care, policies, programs, quality improvement activities and providing in-service education in areas of expertise.

3 yrs of acute care setting experience preferred and advanced knowledge of nutrition support is required (TPN and Tube Feeding calculations and parenteral macro-nutrients and micro-nutrients).

This position is full time days 40 hrs / wk Monday-Friday with some rotating holidays and weekend coverage when needed /

University Medical Center Phoenix is a nationally recognized academic medical center. The world-class hospital is focused on coordinated clinical care, expanded research activities and nurturing future generations of highly trained medical professionals. Our commitment to nursing excellence has enabled us to achieve Magnet™ recognition by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. The Phoenix campus, long known for excellent patient care, has over 730 licensed beds, several unique specialty units and is the new home for medical discoveries, thanks to our collaboration with the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix.

Additionally, the campus responsibilities include fully integrated multi-specialty and sub-specialty clinics.

This position provides leadership in clinical nutrition, utilizes and ensures practice standards are met. Serves as a lead for the clinical nutrition department. In addition to managing their own complex caseload of patients by providing nutrition assessments, developing care plans, writing orders within approved standards of practice and monitoring outcomes the lead ensure the daily functions of the nutrition counseling department.