Clinical Nutrition Manager (Registered Dietitian) - Marina del Rey Hospital ($5,000 Sign on Bonus)
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At Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital, we are dedicated to going above and beyond for our patients, their families, and the community, while maintaining a strong customer-centric approach. We actively seek individuals who embody excellence, courtesy, teamwork, respect, communication, and enthusiasm to become part of our team. If you are eager for fulfilling career opportunities that offer growth potential, we welcome you to join us at Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital!
$5,000 Sign on Bonus for External Hires
The Clinical Nutrition Manager provides leadership, management, and monitoring of all clinical aspects of the department's programs and nutrition services, including clinical competency of nutrition programs, patient safety, compliance with California Board of regulations, and quality improvement. The clinical nutrition manager oversees the clinical content development, updating, and maintenance of collaborative practice agreements, protocols, and training of existing and new food therapy management programs. In addition, the clinical nutrition manager is responsible for coordinating and directing all activities of the nutrition staff in the provision of safe, cost-effective and clinically appropriate medication and nutrition therapies.
What you’ll be doing in this role:
Provides leadership and support in the maintenance of nutrition services to ensure clinical services meet the requirements and needs of the physicians and patient population. Assures compliance with MDRH programs policies and procedures.
Assesses daily schedules of staff to ensure efficiency, access and department needs are met, oversight for colleague time away, overtime work, and policies/procedures are followed.
Supports clinical, quality and financial initiatives through the provision of nutrition services in programs promoting cost-effective, clinically appropriate, high-quality care, patient satisfaction.
Establishes goals for the department and develops tactics to meet those goals, in collaboration with the Executive Director. Leads process improvement and quality initiatives and evaluate operational efficiency and efficacy data for Nutrition Services. Revises strategies as changes in condition/response occur.
Provides drug information and education to healthcare providers, staff, and patients/caregivers, including Drug Safety Alerting to physicians, other departments, patients.
Identifies need for and implements comprehensive assessment consistent with policy; directs the nutritional assessment process in conjunction with the interdisciplinary team.
Collects pertinent data and interprets appropriately.
Collaborates with patient/family/significant other where appropriate in the assessment process; facilitates their active participation in establishing nutrition related goals and objectives. Evaluates the patient’s nutritional related education needs; provides education and documents as appropriate in the medical record.
Documents various systems (VST, MR, WEB/VS), makes for good follow-up care by other staff (next RD/DTR to follow).
Keeps updated on and uses evidence based practice guidelines/measures for appropriate value(s) for control or improvement of the disease or conditions as defined and supported in the literature.
Determines patient centered outcomes that are clear, concise, observable and measurable, during the initial assessment and on follow up and documents consistently in the plan of care; oversees and mentors staff in this regard giving constructive and timely feedback when warranted. Responds promptly to the patient’s need for education, need for change in orders, or any other circumstance that requires change for demonstration of the best outcome. Refers patients to appropriate resources in the community as needed.
Collaborates with other colleagues and health care professionals in expediting orders that lead to the best practice outcomes for the individual patient, this includes attendance at patient care conferences, rounds, etc. where care can be discussed and orders quickly obtained for required changes.
Plans, develops facilitates and evaluates clinical nutrition care within the section. Performs audits and utilizes operational data to improve efficiency and quality of medical nutrition therapy.
Collaborate with culinary team to develop and maintain patient menus that adhere to regulatory compliance and ensure patient satisfaction.
Oversight on software optimization.
Support and education for diet clerks and culinary team.
Maintain open dialog with kitchen and clinical team.
Other duties as assigned.
Education:
Bachelor's Degree, minimum.
Master's Degree, preferred.
Licenses/Certifications:
Certification as a Registered Dietitian by the Commission on Dietetic Registration, required.
Certification such as CNSD, CSP, CDE, preferred.
Membership in the American Dietetic Association, preferred.
Experience:
Three (3) years of experience in clinical nutrition, minimum.
Management/supervisor experience, highly desired
Working Title: Clinical Nutrition Manager (Registered Dietitian) - Marina del Rey Hospital ($5,000 Sign on Bonus)
Business Entity: Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital
Job Category: Clinical Operations
Position Type: Full-time
Base Pay:$110,240.00 - $116,480.00
Our compensation philosophy
We offer competitive total compensation that includes pay, benefits, and other recognition programs for our employees. The base pay range shown above takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including knowledge/skills; relevant experience and training; education/certifications/licensure; and other business and organizational factors. This base pay range does not include our comprehensive benefits package and any incentive payments that may be applicable to this role. Pay Transparency Non Discrimination Provision (PDF) (opens in new window)
Diversity and Inclusion at Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital
We are caretakers and innovators committed to the pursuit of equitable healthcare. But health equity is not possible without representation. Our commitment to diversity goes beyond demographics or checking boxes. Our people must reflect the diverse identities, experiences and geographies of the communities and patients we serve – because that’s what our patients, colleagues and communities deserve. Quality Care and Research—For All, By All (opens in new window).
Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital is an EEO employer.
Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of the race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics or any genetic information), marital status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age (40 or older), military and/or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal or state law.
Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, in accordance with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.
At Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital, we are dedicated to the safety, health and wellbeing of our patients and employees. This includes protecting our patients from communicable diseases, such as influenza (flu) and COVID-19. For this reason, we require that all new employees receive a flu vaccine based on the seasonal availability of flu vaccine (typically during September through April each year) as a condition of employment, and annually thereafter as a conditions of continued employment, subject to medical exemption or religious accommodation. For the same reason, you may also be required to receive other vaccines such as COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital reserves the right to make modifications to its required list of vaccines as required by law and/or policy. Cedars-Sinai’s AA Policy Statement (PDF) (opens in new window)