Registered Dietitian

Overview:

We want you to join our team! We need deeply compassionate, committed and highly talented staff.  The Woods organization is guided by their mission to support children and adults with disabilities or challenges to achieve their highest potential and independence through innovative and individualized approaches that promote learning and personal fulfillment.

 

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Life and Disability Insurance
• PTO - Paid time off
• On-site medical center
• 403b retirement plan
• Continuing education programs
• Tuition-assistance program
• Career growth opportunities

Salary: $55000 - $65000 / annually - depending on experience / education

 

Job Summary

The Dietitian provides quality nutritional care for Woods Services clients via entrance, yearly, and other assessments as required.

Responsibilities:

• Recommends adjustments to client’s diets to the physician as needed.
• Monitors client acceptance of meals and suggests appropriate substitutions.
• Performs nutritional counseling on a group or individual basis whenever required.
• Attends team meetings for therapeutic diets as needed.
• Provides coverage as needed in the absence of the Clinical Dietitian.
• Maintains standards for client’s nutritional care with the dietetics teams
• Liaison to medical/nursing/residential day programs with Clinical Dietitian.
• Plans and conducts orientation and in-service programs for personnel.
• Monitors food service for conformance with quality standards of dietary compliance, sanitation, safety, and security by routine mealtime visits to residential units and school cafeterias.
• Ensure WS employees have updated diet information. Assists in menu planning of special diets and prepares menus for distribution where indicated.
• Supervises FNS food production and service when needed.

Qualifications:

• Registered Dietitian (RD), Licensed Dietitian nutritionist (LDN), and a member of Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
• Registered Dietitian with one year of experience as a dietitian in a health care facility.
• In-depth knowledge of special diets essential.
• In-depth knowledge of the nutritional requirements of Developmental Disabilities preferred.
• Computer proficiency desired.
• Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds.

About Woods Services

Woods Services is a Pennsylvania and New Jersey-based non-profit population health network and advocacy organization that along with its six affiliate organizations provides life-long innovative, comprehensive and integrated health, education, housing, workforce, behavioral health and case management services to more than 22,000 children and adults in the intellectual and developmental disability, child welfare, behavioral and brain trauma public health sectors who have complex and intensive medical and behavioral healthcare needs.

Our Langhorne campus is home to 550 residents, and provides outpatient and day programs.