Registered Dietitian
Alexandria, VA 
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Job Description

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!

See Full List of Benefits Here: 2024 INOVA BENEFITS GUIDE

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.



Additional Requirements

Certification - Registered Dietitian (RD) upon startBasic Life Support (BLS) within 3 monthsLicensure - N/AExperience - 0 Dietetic internship or equivalentEducation - Master's degree; Dietitians registered after 1/1/2024 must hold a Master's Degree


As a recipient of federal financial assistance, Inova Health System (“Inova”) does not exclude, deny benefits to, or otherwise discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, or age in admission to, participation in, or receipt of the services or benefits under any of its programs or activities, whether carried out by Inova directly or through a contractor or any other entity with which Inova arranges to carry out its programs and activities.
This policy is in accordance with the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, and regulations of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued pursuant to these statutes at 45 C.F.R. Parts 80, 84, 91 and 92, respectively.

 

Job Summary
Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Education
Master's Degree
Required Experience
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