Perm – Dietitian – Hospital (Days) Sioux City, IA

Title: Perm – Dietitian – Hospital (Days) Sioux City, IA

Description:
Hourly Rate: *** – ***
*** Sign-On Possible
20% Placement Fee

Dietitian

Under supervision by the PACE Program Manager, plans and
provides nutritional care for Siouxland PACE participants as a member of the
Interdisciplinary Team.  Assesses nutritional needs, develops and
implements nutritional care plans, and evaluates and reports these results
appropriately. Maintains professional competency and skills required for
professional practice.

Find out more about Siouxland PACE at Siouxland PACE | UnityPoint Health – Sioux City, Iowa.

Responsibilities

• Maintains a working knowledge of applicable PACE
Federal, State, and local laws and regulations, the Compliance Accountability
Program, Code of Ethics, as well as other policies and procedures in order to
assure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical, and professional
behavior.

• Obtains and evaluates nutritional and medical history, laboratory data, test
results, current medications, current diet orders and nutritional regimen to
determine participant’s estimated nutritional needs.

• Recommends and implements nutrition interventions that assist in maintaining
or improving nutritional-related medical diagnoses.

• Completes nutrition assessments for participants per regulatory guidelines
and when needed to assist in developing participant’s plan of care and service
delivery requests.

• Instructs participants, family members, staff and contracted
providers/facilities on diet, food safety and sanitation.

• Documents pertinent participant information in the electronic medical record
(EMR) and the participant plan of care.

• Attends Interdisciplinary Team meetings daily and team activities when
scheduled.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Location US-IA-Sioux City
• Address 1200 Triview Ave
• Affiliate 9220 UnityPoint Health PACE Affiliate
• City Sioux City
• Department PACE Day Center
• State IA
• FTE 1.0
• FLSA Non-Exempt
• Scheduled Hours/Shift Monday-Friday 8:00AM-4:30PM
• Work Type (Portal Searching) Full Time Benefits
• Sign On Bonus ***