Manager Clinical Nutrition

Overview

Job Summary
Are you a leader who wants to make a daily impact helping our smallest patients grow and mentoring future dietitians? This position leads Geisinger’s Human Milk & Formula Lab, collaborates with neonatal/pediatric RDN team, and mentors dietetic students in an acute care setting. Join the team that makes a difference every day.

Responsible for managing Clinical Nutrition Services for assigned areas; responsible for planning, monitoring, and maintaining the budgets. Instills and maintains a customer service approach throughout all aspects of the responsibility area.

• Supervises the Clinical Nutrition staff; manages Clinical Nutrition services provided at all clinics and hospital sites for which they are responsible.
• Focuses staff on common goals, engages people to work together, uses leadership techniques that facilitate teamwork.
• Coordinates the implementation and evaluation of clinical standards of practice, performance improvement projects and service standards.
• Seeks input from management and implements recommendations in the process of developing and administering budgets; understands key financial terms and budget concepts; understands the expense and revenue aspects of the budgets; controls operational costs.
• Manages the budgets on a day-to-day basis.
• Responsible for recruitment, interviewing, and selection of staff at assigned sites.
• Coordinates and conducts orientation programs.
• Schedules staff for inpatient and outpatient services; maintains personnel files.
• Serves as resource to Clinical Nutrition staff.
• Develops and implements performance improvement activities; reports these activities to designated committees.
• Represents and participates in performance improvement teams as needed.
• Designs clinical nutrition policies, protocols, standards and work systems for inpatients and outpatients.
• Seeks approval when needed from administration and medical staff.
• Guides the development, evaluation, and refinement of individual objectives consistent with departmental goals and ensures achievement of objectives.
• Facilitates appropriate recognition of individual staff performance in an effort to maintain a positive and motivational work environment.
• Provides some direct patient Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) on a limited basis, including in- or out-patient MNT.
• Serves as preceptor and coordinator for all dietetics students or other students as requested for campuses.
• Coordinates the planning, implementation and evaluation of clinical learning objectives.
• Manages all community, staff, student, and media requests for Clinical Nutrition.

Work is typically performed in a clinical environment. Accountable for satisfying all job-specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive; they represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job. Additional competencies and skills outlined in any department-specific orientation will be considered essential to the performance of the job related to that position.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition
• Certified - RDN (Registered Dietitian Nutritionist)

• Minimum of 2 years of managerial or supervisory experience
• Minimum of 5 years of related work experience

• Full benefits (health, dental and vision) starting on day one
• Three medical plan choices, including an expanded network for out-of-area employees and dependents
• Pre-tax savings plans with healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSA) and a health savings account (HSA)
• Company-paid life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability coverage
• 401(k) plan that includes automatic Geisinger contributions
• Generous paid time off (PTO) plan that allows you to accrue time quickly
• Up to $5,000 in tuition reimbursement per calendar year
• MyHealth Rewards wellness program to improve your health while earning a financial incentive
• Family-friendly support including adoption and fertility assistance, parental leave pay, military leave pay and a free  membership with discounted…