Clinical Dietitian

Landmark Hospital of Athens is seeking a Clinical Dietitian to join our team! The Dietitian is responsible for nutritional assessments and follow-up of patients with nutritional deficits in the hospital. The Dietitian participates in team treatment planning for all patients and provides nutritional education to patients families and addition the Dietitian is responsible for the food service facilities and supervising the food service contract service to ensure that all standards and requirements are met. The position is full time approximately 30hrs weekly.

Dietitian Responsibilities:

• Assessing the health and nutritional needs of patients.
• Preparing patients nutrition plans.
• Counseling patients about nutrition and healthy eating habits.
• Monitoring and evaluating the effects of nutrition practices and plans and making adjustments if necessary.
• Developing strategic meal plans for patients with special needs.
• Documentation of plans and patient progress toward health goals.
• Examining meals for compliance with prescribed diets and standard of palatability.
• Assisting food service managers with sanitation safety procedures and menu development.
• Developing policies that will allow food service or nutrition programs to be implemented.

Dietitian Minimum Requirements:

• Active and unrestricted GA license
• Bachelors Degree in Nutrition
• Registered by Commission on Dietetic Registration
• Minimum 1 year of hospital dietitian experience
• Dietary skills and knowledge
• Analytical skills able to apply nutrition science
• Communication skills (verbal and written)

About us:

Landmark Hospitals is a privately owned critical care hospital system with locations across the Southeastern United States. Landmark Hospitals specializes in providing the highest-level care for medically complex patients who stay with us for an average of 25-30 days. We are proud of the healing that happens here and it is all made possible by our amazing employees. We offer our employees a collaborative supportive work environment with competitive benefits and flexibility that can only be found in a boutique hospital setting.

We are committed to being an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability genetic information marital status amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal state and local laws.