Overview
Job Purpose: Provide medical nutrition therapy and diabetes education to improve outcomes and quality of life.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Provides individual medical nutrition therapy and individual and group diabetes education to meet patient goals, through in person and/or telehealth sessions
- Assesses, evaluates, interprets, monitors, and documents nutritional status and needs of patients; uses established standards of care and evidence-based practice guidelines
- Counsels and provides tailored nutrition education to patients and their families
- Uses age-specific, disease-specific and culturally competent educational materials and counseling techniques to meet patient needs
- Documents in electronic medical record to monitor patient progress
- Communicates and collaborates with patient’s primary care provider, as well as other specialty services to coordinate care
- Attend all mandatory trainings and department meetings, readily bringing own ideas and thoughts into the discussion
- Develops, reviews, updates, and implements educational materials to meet the needs of patients and providers
- Provide in-service training or presentations for other company providers and specialists, as deemed necessary
- Contribute blog articles and recipes to company website
- Contribute case studies and data on patient progress as part of outcomes collection and research activities
- Continually study emerging trends and new research related to the practice of dietetics and facilitate discussion and findings with the nutrition team
- Train patients on continuing glucose monitoring devices upon completion of training program
- Maintain license through NC Board of Nutrition and Dietetics and credentials with the Commission on Dietetic Registration
- Complete at least 15 diabetes-related continuing education credits annually to maintain instructor status in Avance Care accredited diabetes program, in addition to completing continuing education to maintain RDN credentials
Additional Duties and Responsibilities
Accomplishes all tasks as assigned or as they become necessary
Qualifications
Experience, Education and Licensure:
- Registered Dietitian through the Commission on Dietetic Registration
- Licensed Dietitian through the North Carolina Board of Nutrition and Dietetics
- Master’s Degree, preferred
- At least 1 year of clinical nutrition experience, highly preferred
- Eating disorder experience highly preferred
- Diabetes education experience, preferred
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Strong computer skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Team player
- Efficient time management and workload prioritization
Language Skills:
Ability to communicate well in writing and in person. Ability to read and interpret common medical terminology.
Expectation of Employee
- Adheres to Avance Care’s Policy and Procedures
- Acts as a role model within the clinic
- Performs administrative and clinical duties as workload necessitates
- Maintains company and patient confidentiality both on and off work premises
- Maintains a positive, respectful attitude, high team spirit and morale
- Uses tact in all personal interactions
- Consistently reports to work on time for scheduled shift, prepared to perform duties of position
