Dietitian
City of Hope
Goodyear, AZ
Job posting number: #7229879 (Ref:JR-13215)
Posted: April 5, 2024
Salary / Pay Rate: $24.09 - $39.71 / hour
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
Job Description
Dietitian
Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, andtreatment facilitiesin Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.
The successful candidate:
Responsible for assessing patients’ nutritional status and intervening with appropriate medical nutrition therapy (MNT) and/or education to improve, maintain, or optimize nutritional status.
JOB RESPONSIBLITIES
- Formulate and implement nutritional care plans based on assessment of patients’ nutritional needs, diet restrictions, nutrition support and physician care plans. Each RD will be able to manage a minimum of 12 patients daily.
- Monitor and evaluates effectiveness of patients care plan. Document thoroughly and appropriately all nutrition care information in patient medical record.
- Counsel and educate on nutritional support and nutritional management to patients and their families, physicians, paraprofessionals, the community and potential candidates for hire within the corporation
- Collaborate with medical staff, nursing, pharmacy, and other hospital stakeholders to plan and implement patient care as necessary in meeting the nutritional needs of patients.
- Monitor inpatient foodservice operations to ensure compliance with physician diet orders and quality standards. Assist with monthly foodservice in-service education. Sign off on foodservice competencies for inpatient meal delivery. Approve inpatient menus.
- Monitor foodservice operations to ensure compliance with physician diet orders and quality standards.
- Integrate food and dietetic services into the hospital wide QAPI and infection control programs.
- Responsible for clinical nutrition and nutrition support in coordination with the use of Telemedicine and the use of other nutritional services for patient care needs internally and externally as designated by CTCA.
JOB QUALIFICATIONS
Experience: 1 year of Oncology Experience or Similar Experience
Education: Bachelor of Science in nutritional science
Licensure: Maintenance of Dietetic Registration
City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer. To learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, please click here.
To learn more about our comprehensive benefits, click here:Benefits Information
Salary / Pay Rate Information:
Pay Rate: $24.09 - $39.71 / hour
The estimated pay scale represents the typical [salary/hourly] range City of Hope reasonably expects to pay for this position, with offers determined based on several factors which may include, but not be limited to, the candidate’s experience, expertise, skills, education, job scope, training, internal equity, geography/market, etc. This pay scale is subject to change from time to time.
City of Hope is a community of people characterized by our diversity of thought, background and approach, but tied together by our commitment to care for and cure those with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The innovation that our diversity produces in the areas of research, treatment, philanthropy and education has made us national leaders in this fight. Our unique and diverse workforce provides us the ability to understand our patients' needs, deliver compassionate care and continue the quest for a cure for life-threatening diseases. At City of Hope, diversity and inclusion is a core value at the heart of our mission. We strive to create an inclusive workplace environment that engages all of our employees and provides them with opportunities to develop and grow, both personally and professionally. Each day brings an opportunity to strengthen our work, leverage our different perspectives and improve our patients’ experiences by learning from others. Diversity and inclusion is about much more than policies and campaigns. It is an integral part of who we are as an institution, how we operate and how we see our future.
