Clinical Dietitian Job Chilliwack area,BC Canada,Healthcare

Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $40.75 - $50.87 / hour

Job Summary

Fraser Health is responsible for the delivery of hospital and community-based health services from Burnaby to Fraser Canyon on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations, and is home to six Métis Chartered Communities.

Our team of 45,000 staff, medical staff and volunteers is dedicated to serving our patients, families and communities to deliver on our vision:
Better health, best in health care. Learn more.

We currently have exciting opportunities for Casual – Clinical Dietitians to join our team at Chilliwack General Hospital located in Chilliwack, B.C. We hire great people for outstanding jobs and need your help to expand the ability to deliver prompt and professional service.

Come work with us!

Joining our team offers you opportunities to work in a rapidly growing organization with health professionals who are excellent in their respective fields, career growth and advancement, a competitive compensation package (including four weeks of vacation to start, comprehensive health benefits, and pension plan), and the rewarding opportunity to make a difference every single day in health care.

Fraser Health values diversity in the workforce and strives to maintain an environment of Respect, Caring and Trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable, and culturally safe manner.

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Detailed Overview

Reporting clinically to the Dietitian Practice Leader, provides dietetic practice in accordance with patient/client needs consistent with established departmental standards, policies and procedures for an assigned location.

Responsibilities

Determines appropriate nutrition intervention through physician/health team referral or risk screening for the assigned patient population; assesses the patient/client’s current status and determines the goals of medical/nutritional therapy by reviewing charts, interviewing patients or family, or through discussion with the interdisciplinary team.

Develops and implements a patient/client care plan based on information received from multiple sources which may include the patients' chart, the patient, family or interdisciplinary team; documents care plan according to departmental standards.

Evaluates the effectiveness of the intervention through patient/client observation, reviewing biochemical parameters and discussion with the patient or interdisciplinary team; makes care plan adjustments as required.

Contributes to the Dietetic Internship Program by providing educational support and constructive evaluation in the assigned area(s), as required by site and program needs; provides educational sessions to interdisciplinary team, allied health professionals, medical staff and the community; advocates for the role of nutrition in health promotion, prevention and intervention.

Acts as a resource in the area of medical/nutritional interventions to the interdisciplinary team, allied health care professionals, students and the community.

Participates in the continuous improvement of clinical practice guidelines for the department; participates with the interdisciplinary team in the development of clinical pathways as appropriate; develops nutrition education materials and contributes to other quality initiatives.

Communicates nutrition care plan to all areas of the Food & Nutrition Services; supports departmental guidelines for…