REGISTERED DIETITIAN SPECIALIST
This vacancy is located in the Dietary/Nutritional Services Department at Eastern Louisiana Mental Health System in Jackson, LA (East Feliciana Parish). ELMHS is the largest 24-hour, multisite, state psychiatric complex, comprised of residential, outpatient and inpatient services.
*This posting may be used to fill vacancies in other divisions or units at Eastern Louisiana Mental Health System within 90 days of closing.
This position will be filled as a part-time WAE (open to all qualified candidates).
The WAE hourly rate for this position is $32.50
No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.
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For further information about this vacancy, please contact:
ELMHS-HR@LA.GOV
(225) 634-0571
Specific information about this job will be provided to you in the interview process, should you be selected. However, there is no guarantee that everybody that applies to this posting will be interviewed.
Requirements
Registered Dietitian with the Commission on Dietetic Registration of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics followed by two years of professional level dietetics experience.
SUBSTITUTIONS:
A master's degree in food and nutrition, dietetics or institutional management will substitute for one year of the required experience.
NECESSARY SPECIAL REQUIREMENT:
Possession of a permanent or provisional Louisiana dietitian/nutritionist license.
Qualifications
Function of Work:
To serve as a specialist in the nutritional care of patients with severe medical and/or nutritional problems.
Level of Work:
Advanced.
Supervision Received:
General from a higher level Registered Dietitian or administrative official.
Supervision Exercised:
May exercise direct line over professional, paraprofessional, and non-professional dietary personnel.
Location of Work:
Twenty-four hour facilities statewide.
Job Distinctions:
Differs from Dietitian by the highly specialized nature of work.
Differs from higher level Registered Dietitian jobs by lack of emphasis on supervisory and management responsibilities.Serves as specialist in hospitals in the care of patients with medically acute and chronic nutritional problems such as; the leukemia, renal, oncology, obstetrics and GYN, surgery, medicine, neurology, orthopedics, psychiatric rehabilitation, or neo-natal units.
Develops and implements highly specialized diets and nutrition plans for clinics, out-patients, and hospitalized patients.
Calculates, writes, adapts, and modifies diets or menus to meet individual needs.
Visits patients daily and teaches patients and their families the practical and technical aspects of the diet as it relates to the particular patient's health problem.
Develops and implements nutritional assessment care plan for patients with severe nutritional problems.
Calculates, determines, and schedules amounts of food and supplies needed to be purchased.
Determines specifications for food, supplies, and equipment to meet the needs of the institution, such as teaching hospital.
Serves as an administrative specialist in inventory control and procedures, food cost determinations, and allocations and financial reports.
Teaches nutrition classes to medical and dietetic students, interns, and residents.
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