Clinical Dietitian Transplant

Clinical Dietitian Transplant

Are you passionate about the patient experience? At Methodist Healthcare, we are committed to caring for patients with purpose and integrity. We care like family! Jump-start your career as a Clinical Dietitian Transplant today with Methodist Hospital Specialty and Transplant.

As a Dietitian - Transplant you will be responsible for planning, organizing, and evaluating all phases of nutritional care for pre-transplant as well as post-transplant patient populations at several MHS Transplant Clinics. As a Dietitian – Transplant you will coordinate and maintain a high standard of nutritional care and provide advice regarding patient candidacy.

What you will do in this role:

• Perform nutritional assessment, develop plans of care and educate patients and caregivers as appropriate.
• Participate in satellite clinic operations for patient assessment and multi-disciplinary meetings with the transplant team members to deem candidacy.
• Meet patient needs. Must understand the disease process as well as dialysis needs for patients undergoing transplant evaluation and follow up.
• Determine recommendations for nutritional status improvements and provide direction and instruction for resolution of barriers to transplantation.
• Maintain documentation in the patient’s medical record all interventions and recommendations to determine candidacy.
• Collaborate with medical team as well as referring dieticians to determine the best transplant plan of care and waitlist nutritional management.

What qualifications you will need:

• Bachelor Degree focused on nutritional aspects of patient care in acute care setting
• Registered Dietitian and Licensed in the State of Texas

Methodist Hospital Specialty and Transplant offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

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Note:

Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Methodist Hospital Specialty and Transplant has been nationally recognized for its record setting kidney, liver and pancreas transplant programs. It is home to the Texas Transplant Institute and is the largest living donor kidney transplant program in the US. According to the United Network of Organ Sharing database, the center reached a major milestone in 2019 by performing 231 living donor kidney transplants in a single year setting a new national record - that’s 65 more transplants than the second center on the list.

In addition to transplant care, Methodist Hospital Specialty and Transplant is a full service hospital with over 260 beds that provides specialized services for liver cancer care, emergency care, weight loss surgery, urology surgery, vascular…