Registered Dietitian

The Dietitian Registered provides safe and therapeutic nutritional care in a comprehensive and systematic manner. Provides clinical services and act as a resource to physicians, nurses and other professional healthcare team members, to provide patients with optimum nutritional care.

Job Responsibilities

Inova is seeking a self-motivated, high performing Registered Dietitian Nutritionist to provide world-class nutrition education and counseling to patients participating in Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation. In this full time, Monday through Friday role, you will provide nutrition education and support to patients at the Inova Alexandria and Inova Mount Vernon outpatient programs. As a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist within these programs, you will have the ability to work with a multidisciplinary team of Exercise Physiologists, Nurses, and Respiratory Therapists to improve quality of life, reduce disease risk and support behavior change.

Schedule: 5 day/week coverage, Mon/Tues/Thur at Inova Alexandria Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehab, Wed/Fri at Inova Mount Vernon Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehab. (32 hours per week)

Inova Benefits and Perks:

• Health, Vision, and Dental Coverage

• Tuition reimbursement and Educational Assistance

• Student loan assistance - up to $10,000!

• State-of-the-art medical and training facilities

• Paid parental leave for birth/adoption of a child

• Retirement benefits with match from day one

• Free Parking to all employees

• Exclusive savings opportunities to in-store events, theme parks, discounts, movie tickets and local offerings and so much more!

Requirements for consideration:

• Newly certified Registered Dieticians must hold a master's degree.

• Dietetic internship or equivalent

• Registered Dietitian (RD)

• Basic Life Support through AHA within 3 months of hire

Job Responsibilities:

• The Dietitian Registered provides safe and therapeutic nutritional care in a comprehensive and systematic manner.

• Provides clinical services and act as a resource to physicians, nurses and other professional healthcare team members, to provide patients with optimum nutritional care.

• Performs a comprehensive assessment by interpreting multiple, sometimes conflicting, data and synthesizing their interrelationships.

• Formulates an individualized nutrition plan of care based on assessment findings and interpreting trends in patient populations to achieve best practice.

• Anticipates nutritional intervention issues, monitors patient tolerance to nutrition therapy and responds when standards of nutrition care recommend changes.

• Coordinates the nutrition care plan with the physician and other healthcare providers while serving as a resource in the integration of the nutrition care plan into the comprehensive plan of care for the patient.

• Communicates with the healthcare team members, patients and families to maximize patient outcomes.

• Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team to increase practice knowledge and incorporate that knowledge into the nutrition plan of care.

• Provides education to physicians, residents, nurses and other healthcare providers to optimize nutrition therapy outcomes.

• Incorporates research findings into nutrition practice standards, develops/revises patient education programs and participates in the development and revision of patient education materials.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Performs a comprehensive assessment by interpreting multiple, sometimes conflicting, data and synthesizing their interrelationships.

• Formulates an individualized nutrition plan of care based on assessment findings and interpreting trends in patient populations to achieve best practice.

• Anticipates nutritional intervention issues, monitors patient tolerance to nutrition therapy and responds when standards of nutrition care recommend changes.

• Coordinates the nutrition care plan with the physician and other healthcare providers while serving as a resource in the integration of the nutrition care plan into the comprehensive plan of care for the patient.

• Communicates with the healthcare team members, patients and families to maximize patient outcomes.

• Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team to increase practice knowledge and incorporate that knowledge into the nutrition plan of care.

• Provides education to physicians, residents, nurses and other healthcare providers to optimize nutrition therapy outcomes.

• Incorporates research findings into nutrition practice standards, develops/revises patient education programs and participates in the development and revision of patient education materials.

• Performs other duties as assigned.