Job Description

Salary

up to $38.00 / hour

Registered Dietitian (RD/RDN/CDN)

Elderwood at Cheektowaga | Cheektowaga, NYFull-time | Onsite clinical nutrition position

Practice Clinical Nutrition Where Your Expertise Has Visible Impact

Elderwood at Cheektowaga is seeking a Registered Dietitian to guide clinical nutrition services within our 172-bed skilled nursing and rehabilitation community.

This is an opportunity to practice across a diverse post-acute and long-term-care population. You will assess nutritional risk, develop individualized interventions, collaborate directly with the interdisciplinary team, and follow residents over time to see the effect of your recommendations.

Your work will influence wound healing, rehabilitation progress, weight stabilization, enteral nutrition, chronic-disease management, dialysis coordination, comfort, and quality of life. You will also have the opportunity to build sustained relationships with residents and families - something that is not always possible in a short hospital encounter.

A Clinically Diverse Nutrition Practice

Elderwood at Cheektowaga provides long-term care, memory care, and comprehensive subacute rehabilitation for individuals recovering from illness, injury, surgery, orthopedic procedures, and cardiac conditions.

The facility supports residents and short-stay patients with needs that may include:

• • Enteral nutrition

  • Dialysis coordination and renal considerations

  • Complex wounds and wound-vac therapy

  • Ostomy care

  • Post-surgical and orthopedic rehabilitation

  • Cardiac rehabilitation

  • Oncology support

  • Memory care

  • Palliative care

  • Significant weight changes and risk of malnutrition

As the Registered Dietitian, you will serve as a clinical resource to nursing, medical providers, rehabilitation professionals, speech-language pathology, dining services, residents, and families. Your recommendations will be connected to the resident’s broader clinical goals—not separated from them.

Why Consider Elderwood at Cheektowaga?

• Meaningful Clinical Scope: Work with rehabilitation and long-term-care populations presenting varied nutritional needs.

• Professional Autonomy: Assess nutritional status, establish interventions, monitor outcomes, and recommend changes to the interdisciplinary team.

• Continuity of Care: Follow residents over time and see the clinical and personal effect of your recommendations.

• Interdisciplinary Partnership: Collaborate with nursing, providers, therapy, social work, speech-language pathology, and dining services.

• Visible Outcomes: Support wound healing, rehabilitation, weight management, enteral nutrition, dialysis coordination, and quality of life.

• Resident Relationships: Provide individualized education and support to residents and families.

• Organizational Resources: Work within an established skilled nursing organization with facility and regional clinical support.

• Professional Growth: Participate in quality improvement, regulatory readiness, employee education, and the development of nutrition best practices.

Build Your Clinical Nutrition Career Close to Home

Elderwood at Cheektowaga offers a convenient opportunity for Registered Dietitians throughout Cheektowaga, West Seneca, Depew, Lancaster, Sloan, South Buffalo, and Buffalo’s eastern neighborhoods.

Located near I-90 and accessible from Route 33 and other major local corridors, the facility may also be within a practical commute of Lackawanna, Williamsville, Amherst, Clarence, Elma, Alden, Orchard Park, and surrounding Erie County communities.

Make Nutrition Part of the Clinical Plan

At Elderwood, nutrition is connected to recovery, wound healing, strength, comfort, and quality of life. If you want to practice as an active member of an interdisciplinary clinical team and see the ongoing effect of your expertise, we would like to meet you. Apply today to join Elderwood at Cheektowaga as a Registered Dietitian.

Responsibilities

What You’ll Own as a Registered Dietitian (RD/RDN/CDN):

Clinical nutrition and resident care

• Complete comprehensive nutrition assessments and reassessments

• Identify residents at risk for malnutrition, unintended weight change, dehydration, impaired wound healing, or other nutrition-related concerns

• Develop, implement, monitor, and revise individualized nutrition care plans

• Make evidence-based recommendations based on diagnoses, laboratory information, medications, intake, weight trends, treatment goals, and resident preferences

• Monitor residents receiving enteral nutrition and recommend adjustments as clinically indicated

• Support nutrition planning for residents receiving dialysis or complex wound care

• Provide nutrition counseling and education to residents and families

• Document assessments, interventions, recommendations, and outcomes accurately in the electronic medical record

Interdisciplinary collaboration

• Participate actively in care-plan meetings, clinical reviews, and interdisciplinary discussions

• Partner with nursing and medical providers regarding changes in condition, weight trends, laboratory information, hydration, supplements, and nutrition interventions

• Collaborate with rehabilitation and speech-language professionals to support recovery, function, intake, and safe nutrition plans

• Work with dining services to translate clinical recommendations and resident preferences into appropriate meal service

• Serve as an accessible nutrition resource for facility leaders and care teams

Quality, education, and regulatory readiness

• Monitor nutrition-related quality indicators, trends, and outcomes

• Conduct audits and contribute to performance-improvement initiatives

• Support compliance with CMS, New York State Department of Health, and applicable nutrition-services requirements

• Help maintain survey readiness through accurate documentation and consistent clinical practices

• Provide nutrition education and in-service training to employees

• Support and mentor dietetic interns or Diet Technicians when applicable

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Up to

Qualifications

What You’ll Need as a Registered Dietitian (RD/RDN/CDN):

Required

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

• Current Registered Dietitian or Registered Dietitian Nutritionist credential through the Commission on Dietetic Registration

• New York State Certified Dietitian-Nutritionist credential or other applicable state credential

• Strong clinical-assessment, critical-thinking, documentation, counseling, and communication skills

• Ability to collaborate effectively with residents, families, nursing employees, medical providers, rehabilitation professionals, and dining services

• Ability to use electronic medical records and applicable nutrition software

• Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English at the level necessary for safe care and effective workplace communication

Preferred

• Clinical nutrition experience in skilled nursing, rehabilitation, long-term care, geriatrics, dialysis, acute care, or another medically complex setting

• Experience with enteral nutrition, renal considerations, wound healing, unintended weight change, or malnutrition

• Familiarity with CMS and New York State nutrition-services requirements

Registered Dietitians coming from hospitals, dialysis, rehabilitation, outpatient clinical care, or other healthcare settings are encouraged to apply. Previous long-term-care experience is valuable, but it should not prevent a clinically capable RD from being considered.

EOE Statement

WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. Applicants and employees are considered for positions and are evaluated without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.