Registered Dietician - Pediatrics

POSITION DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Registered Dietitian-Pediatric

FLSA status: Non-exempt; hourly

Department: Medical

Unit Code: 200

Reports to: CMO

Supervisory: None

OSHA Hazard Level: High

Written: 7/29/25

Revised:

Position Summary: Under general supervision of Medical Director, plans, develop, and implement therapeutic nutrition programs for children and adolescents. Provide group and community nutrition education programs.

Role Qualifications:

Education:

• Master's degree in food and nutrition from an accredited program or licensed as a Registered Dietician.

Experience:

• Two or more years in public health or office nutritional counseling strongly preferred.

Skills:

• Strong knowledge of dietary counseling regarding chronic disease factors and obesity required.
• Strong teamwork and community activism skills.

Location:

• Attendance is required during regular business hours at assigned CHDC site(s).

Other:

• Bilingual a plus.
• Ability to work with diverse medically underserved population required.

Position Responsibilities:

Clinical

• Provides nutrition assessments, prepares nutrition care plans, and educates and motivates patients to accept and follow programs without regard to their insurance status or ability to pay.
• Attend weekly health center staff clinical team meetings and other staff meetings as required. Participates in development of group practice standards, quality assurance objectives and activities, and presents didactic teaching material to other health center clinical team members.
• Develop culturally appropriate educational materials on nutritional issues for use with children, parents/guardians, and community health education programs. Evaluates and recommends nutrition education used by other health center staff.
• Documents all patient care, including face-to-face and telephone encounters and consults, appropriately in the medical record per health center protocols.
• Seek appropriate consultation and clinical supervision as needed from colleagues, including transfer of patients exceeding professional skills, abilities, or comfort.
• Works with social service agencies and other community groups to assess community nutritional problems and needs; develop and implement related community nutrition programs.
• Provides complete, accurate billing data for all encounters in a timely manner per health center policy.
• Maintains all health center required credentials at all times and provides health center with updated copies. Maintains and expands current level of professional knowledge of nutrition theory and practice through continuing education.
• Works with senior management team to develop practices leading toward an upward productivity trend.
• Other duties as required and assigned.

Organizational

• Adheres to the organization's mission, vision, and values.
• Adheres to the organization's policies regarding time and attendance.
• Comply with accepted dress code and maintain a professional image.
• Demonstrates reliability and trustworthiness.
• Manages time and other resources to meet established goals within the agreed time frames.
• Demonstrates flexibility in the acceptance and completion of work assignments.
• Participate in the department's performance improvement activities.
• Maintains patient/employee confidentiality in the management of information.
• Observes the Health Care System's compliance policies.

Physical demands & work environment: The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Physical demands: While performing duties of job, employees are occasionally required to stand; walk; sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms, talk, and hear. Employees must occasionally lift and/; or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Mental Demands: Stressful due to time constraints and multiple tasks/procedures occurring at the same time.
• Work environment: the noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Manual Dexterity Required: Must be able to manipulate small electronic parts and controls.

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Compliance Provision:

• This position requires compliance with Health Center's written standards, including its Standards of Conduct and policies and procedures ("Written Standards"). Such compliance will be an element considered as part of the employee's regular performance evaluation.
• Failure to comply with Health Center's Written Standards, which may include the failure to report any conduct or event that potentially violates legal or compliance requirements or Health Center's Written Standards, will be met by the enforcement of disciplinary action, up to and including possible termination, in accordance with Health Center's Compliance Program Policy and Procedure: Addressing Instances of Non-Compliance Through Appropriate Disciplinary Actions.

Americans with Disabilities Act Statement:

External and internal applicants, as well as position incumbents who become disabled, must be able to perform the essential job specific functions (listed within each job specific responsibility) either unaided or with the assistance of a reasonable accommodation to be determined by the organization on a case-by-case basis.

General sign-off: The employee is expected to adhere to all company policies and to act as a role model in the adherence to policies.

I have read and understand this explanation and job description.

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