Senior Registered Dietitian

Banner Thunderbird Registered Dietitian

Primary City/State:
Glendale, Arizona

Department Name:
Facilities, Environmental Services, and Culinary

$10,000 Sign-On Bonus!

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Banner Thunderbird is a desirable facility with the diversity of populations from neonatal, to pediatric to adult and geriatric populations. Have inpatient behavioral health units for adult and peds as well. Also we are a level 1 Trauma center so the the patient populations are acute and variable. Large hospital so ability to cover multiple areas to stay practiced. Growing with new tower opening in 2026 with additional Med/surg beds and Women and Infant Services beds including increase in NICU beds.

** Would be willing to downgrade this position to a Registered Dietitian for the right applicant**

** Required for Senior RD
*** Applicant should have previous RD experience, preferably Certified Nutrition Support Clinician (CNSC)

Full-Time: 4x10's or 5x8's with a start time between 6:30am-8am.

$10,000 Sign on; requires 12 month commitment for Registered Dietitians

POSITION SUMMARY

This position provides leadership in specialty area of clinical nutrition, establishes practice standards and serves as a mentor to educate colleagues in the specialty nutrition area. This position manages a complex caseload of patients by providing comprehensive nutritional assessments and nutrition-focused physical exams, developing and managing all aspects of appropriate nutrition care plans, and monitoring outcomes of plans. Provides patient and family nutrition counseling and education.

Develops Nutrition Standards of Practice and Education material in collaboration with peers. Serves as a member of the interdisciplinary Health Care team providing input and establishing patient care policies, programs, quality improvement activities and provides in-service education in areas of expertise.

CORE FUNCTIONS

1. Provides comprehensive nutrition assessment of patients' nutritional needs, to include nutrition-focused physical exams as appropriate, with at least 50% of patient case load in designated specialty area. Obtains timely and appropriate data and analyzes/interprets data based on evidence-based standards and established practice guidelines.

2. Demonstrates and maintains competency in enteral and parenteral clinical practice protocols and oral nutrition management standard of practice as demonstrated by successful completion of initial competency exams and ongoing evaluation.

3. Writes orders to initiate and manage the nutrition care and of all assigned patients including those receiving nutrition support (parenteral and enteral nutrition) per protocols.

4. Evaluates effectiveness of the care plan and communicates effectively to the other members of the healthcare team to provide optimal nutrition outcomes. Provides pertinent information in the medical records, patient plans of care and/or clinical pathways while meeting requirements of regulatory agencies (i.e. Joint Commission, CMS, State and Local Agencies).

5. Provides nutrition education to patients, families, staff and other health care team professionals through the development of effective teaching materials and in-service programs;
Evaluates patient and or family response to education.

6. Provides leadership in area of practice, establishing proper patient care procedures and acts as liaison with nursing areas. Establishes and monitors policies and procedures in area of expertise and communicates areas of concern that impact patient care in this area. Assists with program marketing through the development of effective work relationships with internal and external customers to enhance the use of services provided by clinical program.

Serves as mentor to new staff and interns where assigned.

7. Participates in and identifies continuous quality improvement activities in clinical areas to ensure optimal nutrition care outcomes are achieved;
Participates in clinical nutrition Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) activities. Provides additional coordination of projects and programs.

8. Demonstrates proficiency in area of practice;
Responsible for developing training and educational materials to assist colleagues in developing skills in area of specialty and mentors staff members in area of specialty.

9. This position interacts with patients, families, health care…