Registered Dietitian

Join the Registered Dietitian role at PACE Southeast Michigan
. The Registered Dietitian (RDN) is responsible for assessing nutrition status and implementing appropriate interventions to ensure participants’ needs are met.

• Review nutritional needs prior to enrollment into the program.
• Complete initial, semi-annual, and annual assessments. Participant comprehensive assessments may include evaluation of:
  • Diet recall
  • Current diet
  • Meal patterns
  • Assistance with meal preparation and grocery shopping
  • Anthropometric analysis
  • Weight monitoring
  • Appetite changes
  • Difficulty chewing and/or swallowing
  • Food allergies and preferences
  • Monitoring for food insecurity
  • Cultural and religious preferences
  • Past medical history
  • Evaluation of laboratory indicators
  • Need for nutritional supplements and/or frozen meals
  • Education follow‑up
• Review and determine appropriate therapeutic diets.
• Work and collaborate with participants and caregivers, as well as members of the Interdisciplinary Team, to develop the participant’s plan of care.
• Evaluate participant’s motivation for changes toward positive outcomes; implement individualized interventions and adjust goals of care as needed.
• Supervise the participants in the Day Health Center to ensure meals served are in compliance with the RDN’s diet recommendations. Communicate changes in dietary needs to the Interdisciplinary Team.
• Collaborate with Day Health Center Staff and other members of the Interdisciplinary Team to identify participants with difficulty chewing and/or swallowing and refer to the appropriate team member for evaluation as needed.
• Counsel and educate participants and their caregivers to enhance health and overall well‑being.
• Organize and maintain updated frozen meal and nutritional supplement lists.
• Approve and revise all cycle menus.
• Coordinate care with outside healthcare professionals.
• Maintain frequent contact and follow‑up with participants identified at high nutritional risk.
• Identify clinical characteristics of malnutrition.
• Calculate nutritional needs and coordinate care with Home Infusion Company for participants receiving enteral nutritional support.
• Understand, comply with, and promote the Participant Bill of Rights and work to achieve high levels of participant satisfaction.

• Professional level of knowledge required for completion of a Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition.
• Completion of dietetic internship or equivalent practicum, plus registration as a Dietitian by the Commission on Dietetic Registration.
• At least one year of experience with aging adults.
• Participation in annual, mandatory in‑service training and screening, including infection control, TB testing, safety training, and BLS training.
• Professional level of analytical skills to analyze and solve problems and develop viable plans of intervention.
• Ability to establish and maintain interpersonal and interdepartmental relationships.
• Ability to apply principles of adult learning in planning and implementing educational activities; one‑to‑one teaching participants and family members at the center or at home, staff education formally or informally in settings such as in‑services and group activities with higher functioning participants.
• Participation in and/or facilitation of quality improvement projects resulting from data analysis.
• Ensures compliance with departmental and external standards in the provision of quality‑focused care by attending professional meetings/committees and reviewing national standards of practice.
• Participation in various committees as assigned.
• Must meet a standardized set of competencies before working independently.
• Must be medically cleared for communicable diseases and have all immunizations up‑to‑date before engaging in direct participant contact.

• Variable conditions with exposure to communicable disease, due to patient environment.
• Driving required within PACE of Southeast catchment area, with possible exposure to extreme temperatures, including heat and cold.
• Frequent walking, bending, and lifting of forty (40) pounds or more may be needed in the performance of duties.

• Seniority level:
  Entry level
• Employment type:
  
  Full‑time
• Job function:
  Health Care Provider
• Industries:
  Hospitals and Health Care, Individual and Family Services, and Hospitality