Job Description

At Cleveland Clinic Health System, we believe in a better future for healthcare. And each of us is responsible for honoring our commitment to excellence, pushing the boundaries and transforming the patient experience, every day.

We all have the power to help, heal and change lives — beginning with our own. That’s the power of the Cleveland Clinic Health System team, and The Power of Every One.

Job Title

Clinical Dietitian

Location

Akron

Facility

Akron General Medical Center

Department

Dietary-Cleveland Clinic Akron General

Job Code

T23012

Shift

Days

Schedule

7:30am-4:00pm/8:00am-4:30pm

Join us at Cleveland Clinic Akron General Hospital where we have been providing world-class care to our community for over 100 years. Here, we strive for patient-centered care and comfort with our collaborative team of healthcare professionals. We are committed to serving the community and treat our patients as family.

The Community Registered Dietitian will act as a coordinator to serve the needs of ambulatory clients who are identified as being food insecure by the Hunger Vital Signs™ or designated screening tool and have been referred for services. The dietitian will serve as the coordinator to connect clients with chronic disease who may have limited access to food in their own communities to the hospital’s designated Food Pantry. They will oversee inventory, maintain the Food Pantries, and ensure that it meets all requirements of the hospital and its accreditation bodies and of the Akron Canton or Cleveland Regional Foodbank or any other regional foodbanks for which the hospital serves as a health care partner.

A caregiver in this position works days 7:30am to 4:00pm or 9:30am to 6:00pm.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Provide individualized medical nutrition therapy, education, and counseling to patients.

• Implement nutritional care plans, communicate plans, establish a follow-up system, and maintain documentation.

• Write changes for diet orders, initiate nutrient intake assessments, assess patients for nutritional deficiencies, evaluate fluids and electrolytes, review laboratory and clinical progress notes and inform physicians of their patients’ nutritional status and need for diet changes.

• Create and revise education materials, participate in program development, and develop, implement and market services.

• Support the dietetic internship program as a supervised practice rotation preceptor and class instructor.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Bachelor’s degree in nutrition, dietetics or a related field

• Current licensure to practice dietetics in the current state (LD)

• Active certification as a Registered Dietitian (RD)

• One year experience as a Registered Dietitian in clinical nutrition

• *Successful completion of a Dietetic Internship Program may substitute for experience requirement

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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