Service Leader Clinical Nutrition

Position: Service Leader Clinical Nutrition - Full Time - Days
** Why work for Nebraska Methodist Health System?
** At Nebraska Methodist Health System, we focus on providing exceptional care to the communities we serve and people we employ. We call it The Meaning of Care – a culture that has and will continue to set us apart. It’s helping families grow by making each delivery special, conveying a difficult diagnosis with a compassionate touch, going above and beyond for a patient’s needs, or giving a high five when a patient beats a disease or conquers a personal health challenge.

We offer competitive pay, excellent benefits and a great work environment where all employees are valued! Most importantly, our employees are part of a team that makes a real difference in the communities we live and work in.
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* Job Summary:

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* Location:

Methodist Hospital   Address: 8303 Dodge St.

- Omaha, NE

Work Schedule:

Mon-Fri 7:30am to 4pm     The Service Leader Clinical Nutrition contributes to the Methodist Health System vision and mission by coordinating the clinical nutrition staff at Methodist Hospital, Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital, Methodist Women's Hospital, and Methodist Fremont Health. This includes chief clinical dietitians, clinical dietitians, dietetic students and infant nutrition formula lab technicians. The Service Leader Clinical Nutrition is responsible for program development, training, and educational development of staff, develops policies and procedures for departmental and interdepartmental clinical nutrition activities, and works with medical staff and food service providers to ensure compliance with standards of nutritional care.

The Service Leader Clinical Nutrition is responsible for the highest quality of nutritional care to patients and guests throughout the system, and for the training and performance improvement of the clinical nutrition staff.
** Responsibilities:
**** Essential Job Functions
** Performs management duties, such as hiring, training, coaching, counseling, mentoring, evaluations, corrective action, and terminations to ensure competent staff within the Food and Nutrition Service department.
* Conducts regular staff meetings and employee rounding to ensure information is shared in a timely manner and employee satisfaction is achieved and maintained.
* Retains and develops staff through team building, professionalism and treating team members with dignity and respect. Encourages professional development through advanced certifications and/or degrees.
* Documents payroll, time and attendance variances accurately by running reports and manually entering data to ensure correct payroll is completed by established weekly deadlines.
* Oversees work schedules for assigned staff to ensure duties are covered. Monitors overtime and productivity. Adjusts staffing appropriately to get necessary work completed on shift.

Oversees the processes of the dietitians, formula lab technicians, and dietetic students to ensure staff is adhering to the established departmental policies and procedures and to ensure excellent patient service is provided.
* Creates and maintains a consistent, standardized approach for clinical nutrition operations across the health system.
* Conducts orientation training and in-service training to explain policies and work procedures and to ensure compliance with department standards of operation and state and federal regulatory agencies.
* Capable of providing medical nutrition therapy in the absence of clinical dietitians system wide. Assesses the nutritional status of patients throughout the aging continuum, documenting in the medical record system wide. Develops and revises a nutrition care plan based on information from the patient, medical record, family and health care team members system wide.
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