Supervisory Dietitian

PLEASE NOTE - This position may require temporarily relocation to other TONHC Facilities:
Sells Hospital, Santa Rosa Health Center, San Simon Health Center, and San Xavier Health Center.

This position directs the Nutrition and Dietetic Services Department, located at the Tohono O'odham Nation Health Care (TONHC), Sells Hospital facility. The incumbent is responsible for ensuring high-quality Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) services and food production and food services for the community that it serves. The Supervisory Dietitian has technical, professional, and administrative responsibility for planning, developing, organizing, staffing, implementing, controlling, directing, and evaluating a functionally comprehensive Nutrition and Dietetic Services Department.

This position is located within the TONHC Sells Hospital and oversees the Nutrition and Dietetic Services department. The incumbent organizes and directs the activities of subordinate staff. The incumbent directs and performs the functions of planning food production and service, the nutrition clinics, patient MNT, staff development, and other required responsibilities within the Nutrition and Dietetic Services Department. The incumbent coordinates the department's services and activities with those of other departments within the hospital;

provides advice and technical expertise concerning food- and nutrition-related topics to staff and community agencies/organizations. The Supervisory Dietitian is under the supervision of the Division of Professional Services Director.

(Depending on the area of assignment, an incumbent may not be required to perform some of the duties listed below):

• Establishes organizational structure and guidelines, performance standards, and reporting requirements and defines the lines of authority essential in carrying out the department's mission and the TONHC.
• Provides leadership and guidance to ensure close coordination of the staff's diverse activities to integrate the department effectively.
• Oversee the coordination of policies and procedures for the nutrition care of patients. Assures that all policies and procedures comply with professional guidelines, The Joint Commission (TJC) standards, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and other regulatory agencies.
• Assures that the menu planning, food purchases, and food production and handling practices will deliver safe, high quality, and nutritionally adequate meals. Provide final approval of food standards and the menu cycle.
• Facilitates the development of service priorities that address the Nutrition and Dietetic Services Department's goals and objectives and the TONHC. Coordinates activities to accomplish these identified priorities.
• Develops and monitors staff productivity to maximize staff performance and efficiency within the department.
• Develops and implements staffing and position management goals that will support high-quality food service and MNT services and promote effective workforce utilization.
• Develops and administers a budget for the department that effectively utilizes available financial resources, adequate monetary controls, and budget estimates based on accurate and applicable data. Plans and justifies an annual budget for subsistence, food procurement, supplies, equipment, staff training, and equipment repairs.
• Seeks and evaluates opportunities to reduce operating costs without jeopardizing the food quality or the nutritional care provided to patients, including oral and enteral nutrition products.
• Develops and directs a performance improvement program to continually monitor major functions of the Nutrition and Dietetic Services Department for quality and appropriateness of nutritional care. Assures that the performance improvement program and activities comply with applicable standards established by HACCP, CMS, TJC, and other reviewing agencies.
• Modifies the MNT program and other areas that encompass the Nutrition and Dietetic Services Department to accommodate changes associated with science, education, and research. Assures nutrition-related activities are coordinated with other initiatives at a local and national level to provide for a quality nutrition program.
• Assures that new information/nutritional advancements are incorporated into daily practices and procedures that ensure continuous improvement in services.
• Provides leadership to the Nutrition and Dietetic Services Department staff,…