Diabetes Educator, RD

Needham, MA
• Beth Israel Lahey Health Primary Care
• Full-time
• Day When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Job Profile Summary Beth Israel Lahey Health Primary Care (BILHPC) is building a high performance primary care model that will enable the organization to be a leader in patient experience, provider and care team work life and quality of care both regionally and nationally. Additionally we are working to establish a diabetes education program which will provide quality care and medication-assisted therapy for patients with diabetes in an outpatient setting.

The responsibilities for the Diabetes Educator Registered Dietitian include partnering with providers, pharmacists, nutritionists and other members of the care team to help educate, support and improve health outcomes of patients with diabetes. The Diabetes Educator Registered Dietitian will serve a resource for the Region in educating and supporting people affected by diabetes to understand and manage the condition, achieve behavioral and treatment goals, and optimize health outcomes.

The Diabetes Educator Registered Dietitian will participate in Diabetic Group sessions, provide educational sessions and tools for care teams, and maintain a working relationship with Joslin Care Network, and partner with BILH Primary Care Leadership 1-2 hours per month creating and presenting educational materials.

Job Description:

Primary Responsibilities:

1) The Diabetes Educator Registered Dietitian will perform all of the duties of a Registered Dietitian, including:a. Coordinate and facilitate quality clinical management of a broad based outpatient population across the continuum of care. Collaborates with providers to identify needs for preventive care, evidence-based chronic disease management and care coordination. Provides general and specific healthcare education. Works directly with patients to identify and monitor self-management goals.

(essential) b. Collaborates care with community based providers. Follows up on ED visits and inpatient discharges. Assists providers with exams, treatments and procedures as needed. (essential) c. Provides skilled telephonic triage and assessment, education, collaboration and coordination of healthcare and community resources. Performs a direct patient care role. (essential) f. Accurately documents all aspects of patient care in the Electronic Health Record in a timely basis.

Schedules tests and referrals for specialty care on order of provider as needed. (essential) g. Monitors and ensures follow up of all abnormal test and imaging results under the direction of the provider. (essential) h. Oversees the inventory and ordering management of clinical supplies and equipment as necessary. (essential) i. Provides oversight, delegation and acts as a resource to unlicensed staff.

Provides on-going education and training to practice staff. Updates clinical knowledge and skills though consultation, review of literature and formal and informal education including CEUs. Maintains compliance with organizational mandatory annual training. (essential) j. The Registered Dietitian will ensure that PHI (Patient Health Information) will only be used for the purposes of patient TPO (treatment, payment and operations). The Registered Dietitian will ensure patient safety practices to prevent/eliminate risk of patient harm.

Adverse patient events and near misses will be promptly reported to the BIDHC Risk Management Dept. (essential)2) The Diabetes Educator Registered Dietitian will perform the following duties related specifically to diabetes education:a. Perform clinical and psychosocial assessment of diabetes patients in either an individual or group setting.b. Identify educational needs for diabetes self-management knowledge and skills.c. Develop and implement a plan of care based on clinical expertise, scientific principles and the patients' lifestyle and culture.d. Empower diabetes patients with knowledge and skills to attain optimal control and prevent acute/chronic complications.e. Educate in areas of medication administration, self-monitoring blood…