Registered Dietician

This position is responsible to collaborate with the individual’s interdisciplinary team to provide nutrition assessments for child services (26th Street) within the Community Life Department in accordance with the organization’s mission and core values, utilizing person-centered practices.

·        Completes nutrition assessments for individuals at admission and readmission. Completes monthly reassessments for high risk individuals and follows up as needed. Conducts annual reviews. 

·        Monitors growth and development for significant changes. Evaluates individual’s nutrition plan, eating ability, unplanned weight gain/loss, malnutrition and nutritional risk level

·        Obtains and collects data to provide recommendations to physicians during clinic visits or

consults. Works with nursing and physician to initiate and manage enteral nutrition

·        Attends team meetings and is an active member of clinics (i.e. GI clinic, Rehab clinic, etc.)

·        Collaborates with interdisciplinary team to ensure diet order, meal plan and nutrition goals are managed sufficiently; develops and implements individualized meal/snack plans in the specialty school, intermediate care (behavior units), and the medically complex/rehab unit

 

·        Ensures food is prepared in accordance with current nutrition guidelines

·        Assists with writing menus to meet the National School Breakfast, National School Lunch and DOH guidelines

·        Assists with maintaining and updating policies/procedures that govern dietetics and partners with foodservice employees as needed

 

·        Participates in the Education Wellness Policy Committee

·        Assists with staff training and patient education as needed

*Completes other duties as assigned

 

Minimum qualifications include obtaining bachelor’s degree in Dietetics and completion of a supervised practice dietetic internship accredited through the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND), clinical nutrition experience through a coordinated undergraduate program or successful completion of post graduate internship, Licensed Nutritionist status in the state of South Dakota, and registered by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR), or must be registry eligible and obtained within six months of hire. Experience with children and adolescents with developmental delays and other disabilities is preferred.