Dietitian / Nutritionist

“Sanitas is a global healthcare organization expanding across United States. Our services include primary care, urgent care, nutrition, lab, diagnostic, health care education and resources for our patients. We strive to attract professionals who believe in our mission, vision and are dedicated to the service of our patients and their families creating a memorable experience through compassion, respect, and kindness.”

Job Summary

The Nutritionist is a vital member of our outpatient healthcare team, responsible for assessing, counseling, and educating patients with various chronic conditions, with a primary focus on cardiometabolic, respiratory and digestive disorders. The purpose of this position is to provide personalized nutrition recommendations, empower patients to make informed dietary choices, and support them in managing their conditions to achieve improved health outcomes.

Essential Job Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Provides medical nutrition therapy including nutrition assessment, diet modification, nutrition education, and intervention for the patient population
• Evaluate potential food/drug interactions, and/or medication and nutrient deficiencies. Provide nutrition education/counseling as appropriate.
• Follow all guidelines as outlined within the Nutrition Policies & Procedures Manual.
• Keep current with nutritional practices and theories.
• Actively participate in bi-weekly team meetings.
• Comply with all regulatory standards to include federal, state, and accrediting agencies while adhering to facility confidentiality, HIPAA regulations, and patient rights policies
• Educate other healthcare professionals about food and nutrition as applicable.
• Participate in health promotion events in the medical facility and other community settings.
• Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor.
• Demonstrates commitment to service excellence by promptly addressing internal/external customer issues/requests, resolving concerns while maintaining a professional image and behavior to build and enhance the patient/family/customer experience.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited program through ACEND.

Required Experience

• Minimum 2 years’ experience working as a Registered Dietitian, ideally in the field of diabetes and/or metabolic disorders.

Required Licenses and Certifications

• Licensed in the state of employment as Dietitian/Nutritionist, if applicable; or willing to obtain

license upon hire.

• Registered Dietitian with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR).

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Consistently report for duty on time.
• Acts in a respectful manner and supports the team by demonstrating a commitment to professional

and ethical conduct.

• Accepts ownership of job roles and specific assignments/goals; works independently and accepts constructive feedback.
• Accepts change and adapts in a positive and productive manner; handles unexpected situations and changes in direction calmly and with confidence. Views new assignments and job responsibilities as an opportunity for growth.
• Accepts working flexible schedules and locations if necessary.
• Empathy, sensitivity, and cultural competence in dealing with diverse patient populations.
• Proven ability to thrive in a high-stress and fast paced environment and remain flexible when unexpected situations arise.
• Strong organizational skills to manage a varied caseload and maintain accurate documentation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate degree preferred.

Financial Responsibilities

Budget Responsibilities

Languages

Travel

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to work standing up, walk, use hands to operate tools and equipment and must be able to exert regularly up to 10 pounds of force, frequently exert 30 pounds of force and occasionally exert 50 pounds of force to constantly perform the essential job functions. The employee will be frequently required to reach with hands and arms, bend, balance, kneel, crouch, crawl, push, and pull. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Environmental Conditions

Inside: The employee is subject to environmental conditions, protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. The worker is subject to noise; there may be sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above ambient noise level.

Physical/Environmental Activities

Please indicate with an X the frequency for the activities that apply to the essential functions of the job based on the chart below. Please select Not Required for physical demands that aren’t essential to job performance.

We are an Equal Opportunity/Protected Veteran/Disabled Employer committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable culture for our employees and communities.

1. This job description is not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties or skills required for the job and is subject to review and change at any time, with or without notice, in accordance with the needs of the company. Since no job description can detail all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time in the performance of a job, duties and responsibilities that may be inherent in a job, reasonably required for its performance, or required due to the changing nature of the job shall also be considered part of the jobholder’s responsibility.