Spanish Bilingual-Dietitian I-II
County of Riverside, CA - Moreno Valley, CA
posted 16 days ago
About the position
Riverside University Health System is seeking to fill multiple Spanish Bilingual Dietitian I-II positions for the Medical Center in Moreno Valley. Under direction, to implement, coordinate, and evaluate the medical nutrition therapy for the hospital inpatients and outpatients; nutrition education, information and counseling to patients, physicians, staff members and students, to provide nutritional assessment and consultation to assist in planning, organizing, and directing the food and nutritional services unit; and to do other work as required. Incumbents are primarily concerned with implementation and administration of specialized areas of the food and nutrition services program; evaluating, assessing and recommending medical nutrition therapy for hospital in-patients and out-patients. Dietitian II class is the fully qualified working level class, reporting to a Supervising Dietitian. Dietitian II's work more independently and may provide technical guidance advice and direction to Dietitian I and Dietetic Technician incumbents.
Responsibilities
- Promotion of diabetes awareness in the community and participation in diabetes educational programs.
- Covering both Medical Center and MSC (cover diabetic clinics or other clinics as needed).
- Provides nutritional assessment and determines through applications of various published standards whether individuals are at nutritional risk.
- Designs, implements, and monitors specialized and individualized enteral and parental nutrition regimens.
- Facilitates and monitors transitional feeding regimens.
- Serves as a resource on enteral nutrition delivery systems and educates patients, and/or family members, and health care team members on their use.
- Acts as a resource for physicians, other health care professionals and the public on nutrition.
- Participates in discharge planning for home nutrition support patients.
- Counsels patients individually and in group settings on special diets for various disease states.
- Conducts classes, as appropriate, to special populations, i.e.: lactation, hypertension, cardiac rehabilitation, diabetes, weight reduction, childbirth, and infectious disease.
- Evaluates nutrition education materials for patients and health care professionals.
- Presents nutrition education programs to physicians and other members of the health care team.
- Counsels physicians, nursing, food service personnel and other professional staff as appropriate on implementation of medical nutrition therapy.
- Conducts training for medical, paramedical, nursing, and food services unit personnel and patients and their families.
- Participates in chronic/risk reduction committees and clinics and in quality assurance programs.
- Participates in chart reviews with other health care team members assessing patient nutritional needs.
- Revises and modifies meal patterns as appropriate.
- Supervises diet technicians.
- Assists in special projects as assigned.
- May act for the Supervising Dietitian during absences or as directed.
Requirements
- Graduation from a recognized college with Bachelor's degree in Nutrition, Dietetics or related disciplines and completion of 900 hours of supervised dietetic internship in a clinical setting.
- Possession of a valid Certificate of Registration as a dietitian as issued by the Commission on Dietetic Registration.
- Knowledge of medical nutritional therapy, the biochemical and physiological process and functions of specific nutrients in meeting nutritional needs throughout the life cycle and for special disease states.
- Ability to perform nutritional assessments and make appropriate recommendations for specialized medical nutrition therapy.
- Ability to analyze and assess the nutritional content of diets.
- Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals.
Nice-to-haves
- Dietetic Registration
- Bilingual in Spanish
- Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES)
- Experience as a Dietitian
Benefits
- Salary for Dietitian I: $61,111.65 - $91,376.27 Annually
- Salary for Dietitian II: $64,088.96 - $99,217.87 Annually
