Assistant Director of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetic Internship Director

Overview

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Work Location: Atlanta GA

Description

OVERVIEW:

• Plans directs and evaluates a wide variety of nutritional care systems for the Food and Nutrition Services Department for Emory Hospitals.
• Develops and manages clinical nutrition and dietetic internship budget.
• Establishes and monitors quality measures within clinical nutrition and the dietetic internship.
• Participates in interdisciplinary enterprise/system-wide hospital-wide and departmental committees.
• Oversees development of education materials and programs for physicians medical residents and allied health professionals.
• Participates in developing and implementing departmental policies and procedures in accordance with state federal and organizational guidelines.
• Assists in the development and maintenance of departmental and hospital information systems.
• Collaborates with the Executive Chef and others regarding menu planning.
• Generates evaluates and creates care plans and reports utilizing nutrition care metrics to capture revenue.
• Manages staff and employees.
• Determines staffing needs interviews and hires staff.
• Provides on-going performance feedback addresses problems orients and trains employees verifies competency and identifies and suggests ways to develop skills.
• Determines disciplinary termination and salary actions.
• Completes other clinical management duties as assigned.
• Directs all aspects of the dietetic internship program to ensure maintenance of the Accreditation Council for Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND) standards.
• Assesses plans evaluates and revises the program to ensure interns achieve required competencies.
• Coordinates rotations including creating and managing schedules in clinical nutrition food service community and enrichment experiences at Emory Hospitals and a variety of other facilities.
• Establishes a Dietetic Internship Advisory Committee to determine future trends in dietetics.
• Promotes the national recognition of the Emory University Hospital Dietetic Internship through marketing presentations and attendance at national regional and local meetings.
• Leads student recruitment advisement evaluation and counseling.
• Facilitates the implementation of contractual agreements to support intern experiences at external sites.
• Handles all reports communication and tasks to maintain program accreditation.
• Reviews rotation evaluations and ensures required competencies are met by each intern to support eligibility for a Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) credentialing exam.
• Responsible for the following:
  • timely submission of fees
  • reports and requests for major program changes; maintenance of the program student records including student advising plans and verification statements; maintenance of complaints about the program received from students or others including disposition of the complaint; on-going review of program curriculum to meet the accreditation standards; communication and coordination with program faculty
  • preceptors and others involved with the program; facilitation of processes for continuous program evaluation and student learning outcomes assessment; timely submission of required documentation supporting the graduates eligibility for a Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) credentialing exam.
• Completes other internship-related duties as assigned.
• In addition this position may be required to deliver nutrition care to a subset of patients consistent with the expectations of a clinical dietitian III or above.
• Performs related responsibilities as required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Registered dietitian licensed in the state of Georgia.
• A masters degree in Food & Nutrition Dietetics or related area.
• Five years of related experience of which four must be in clinical nutrition and two must be in a supervisory or management capacity.
• One year of experience teaching/precepting dietetic interns required.

Additional Details

Emory is an equal opportunity employer and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law.

Emory Healthcare is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request. Please contact Emory Healthcares Human Resources at . Please note that one weeks advance notice is preferred.

Required Experience:

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