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Cleveland Clinic Main Campus, United States of America
Onsite
Join the Cleveland Clinic team, where you will work alongside passionate caregivers and provide patient-first healthcare. Cleveland Clinic is recognized as one of the top hospitals in the nation. At Cleveland Clinic, you will receive endless support and appreciation and build a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.
As a Registered Dietitian supporting Wellness & Preventive Medicine, you will provide individualized medical nutrition therapy, education, and counseling to patients in a 100% outpatient setting. Using a functional nutrition approach, you will assess nutritional needs and develop evidence-based care plans that emphasize food as medicine, anti-inflammatory eating patterns, whole-foods-based interventions, and food quality as a key driver of health and wellness. You will collaborate with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to optimize nutrition care, improve patient outcomes, and enhance the overall patient experience.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to work within an innovative functional nutrition model while supporting research initiatives related to nutrition and participating in community outreach efforts. As part of a broader organizational restructuring, this position will eventually align under the Center for Human Nutrition (CHN). The role also offers support for professional development and specialty certifications, including scholarship opportunities, allowing you to further expand your expertise while advancing the field of preventive and lifestyle-focused nutrition care.
A caregiver in this role works a hybrid schedule from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. or 7:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. (flexible) with 1 day onsite at Chagrin Falls FHC.
A caregiver who excels in this role will:
Provide direct patient care using medical nutrition therapy for an assigned patient population.
Provide counseling and education services to patients with disease processes that require nutritional management.
Implement a nutritional care plan, communicate plan, establish a follow-up system and maintain documentation.
Write changes for diet orders; initiate nutrient intake assessments; assess patients for signs and symptoms of nutritional deficiencies; evaluate appropriate fluid and electrolytes; review laboratory and clinical progress notes; inform physicians of patients' nutritional status and need for changes in diet, enteral or parenteral feeding; develop care plans, documentation and reassessments.
Coordinate efforts of dietetic technician assigned to area.
Develop and contribute to Cleveland Clinic sponsored education programs for physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, students, peers and the public.
Create and revise education materials related to disease management through medical nutrition therapy.
Participate in program development designed to market and expand departmental services and revenue generation.
Market services to potential and current referral sources; develop and implement services in response to client's needs and wants.
Actively contribute to departmental initiatives, including committees and projects.
Support the dietetic internship program as a supervised practice rotation preceptor and class instructor.
Complete reports for ongoing productivity tracking.
Participate in professional growth activities; attend and contribute to conferences and seminars on nutrition and related topics.
Represent Cleveland Clinic on nutrition related matters.
Conduct clinical research. Utilizes clinical software applications to facilitate care.
Comply with all regulatory organizations including CMS, JCAO, ADA and policies and procedures of the department and Cleveland Clinic.
Other duties as assigned.
Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition, Dietetics or a closely related field
Maintain current licensure to practice Dietetics in the current state (LD)
Active certification as a Registered Dietitian (RD)
One year of experience as a Registered Dietitian in clinical nutrition
OR successful completion of a Dietetic Internship Program
Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
2+ years of experience (post-internship)
Experience in outpatient care
Experience in patient counseling and behavior change
Interest in or exposure to functional medicine/nutrition
Physical Requirements:
Ability to navigate extensively to provide services to a large number of patients throughout the hospital and manual dexterity sufficient to perform computer entry.
Must have physical ability to measure and weigh patients.
Personal Protective Equipment:
Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.
The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.
Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.
Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility.
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