Registered Dietician

Overview

Make an Impact on Seniors Health! SE Health Dieticians are the best of the best. We provide care and independence to our residents, using a client- and family-centered approach that incorporates the most current research into practice. When you join SE Health, you become part of a diverse and collaborative care team where you’ll apply your skills – and your heart – to provide services that support our residents to live and age well.

This position is for our Taylor View Towers located in Red Deer.

Why join our team?

• Competitive compensation. Our Total Rewards package includes a competitive salary, group benefits, RRSP pension, and exclusive perks/discounts available only to SE Health staff
• Develop yourself with SE. We have Tuition Assistance Programs, continuing education, training, and professional development to support your lifelong learning. Our leadership team will support you to practice to full scope, to integrate the most current evidence into your practice, and to be part of a strong and supportive team that gives you the right mix of team and independence. SE’s orientation and development programs are designed to support both new and seasoned practitioners to excel, and to enable you to provide the very best care in a warm and nurturing way.
• Grow your career. SE Health is a large national organization with diverse healthcare business lines. You’ll have an opportunity – and will be supported – to do different types of patient-facing therapy roles in different locations if that is what you’re interested in. Or you can pivot to supporting or leadership positions where you use your therapy skills as a foundation to contribute and make an impact in different ways.
• Manage your life. At SE, you’ll have the flexibility to control your schedule to balance your life around child care or elder care, or whatever it is you need to do to have a healthy balance of life and work. You have the freedom to set and adjust your schedule, with your roster of clients.
• Support to be your best. SE Therapists are afforded the time they need to help their patients, to build rapport, to accomplish patient care and recovery goals, and to understand the home and life environments that impact recovery in a way you can’t in most other settings. At SE, you meet your patients where they are, and together you take them to new heights!

As a key member of the SE Health clinical team at Taylor View towers, the Registered Dietitian will work with resident to increase their health and wellness. The suitable therapist will be able to work well independently and, within an interprofessional team focused on customer service, and have great people skills. Your passion is to use your caregiver knowledge, skill and judgment to provide integrated and holistic rehabilitation care to meet the physical, safety, emotional and spiritual needs of people of all ages and care needs.

Reporting to the Wellness Manager, the Dietitian provides high quality nutrition support to Long Term Care residents. The Dietitian is primarily responsible for nutrition and dysphagia assessments, and development and maintenance of a nutrition care plan for residents, considering the resident’s needs and values while using the best evidence available to make decisions. The Clinical Dietitian advocates for residents to ensure they receive optimal nutrition and hydration care by providing education to residents, families and staff as needed while participating or initiating nutrition focused quality improvement/assurance activities.

• Completes nutrition and/or dysphagia assessments of residents or clients as required
• Communicates changes in nutrition goals, diets and treatment to appropriate decision with interdisciplinary care partner team
• Contributes to the collaborative process by participating in the admission/discharge process and care conferences
• Identifies, adopts and provides input into best practice standards for nutritional care
• Advocates for residents to ensure they receive optimal nutrition and hydration care by initiating and participating in quality improvement activities
• Provides individual and group nutrition…