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The Registered Dietitian provides oversight of the operation of the Dietary Department to include staffing, food ordering, and preparation, food delivery and clean-up in accordance with facility policies, physician orders, resident care plans and appropriate regulations and clinical assessments of residents to assure nutritional needs are met.
Supervisory Responsibilities
- Interviews, hires and trains employees
- Plans, assigns and directs work
- Prepares work assignment sheets
- Receives calls and finds replacements for absent staff
- Prepares performance evaluations with the understanding that such evaluations impact tenure of probationary employees and wage increases of non-probationary employees
- Schedules and adjusts lunch and rest breaks
- Approves the correction of errors in time cards or other timekeeping records
- Receives and resolves employee complaints
- Monitors and corrects job performance of employees
- Disciplines employees up to and including discharge
- Adequately supervises assigned staff and assures that those staff are supervising employees assigned to them
- Uses independent judgment and discretion on behalf of the organization in the performance of these duties.
Qualifications
Education and/or Experience:
- Minimum of three (3) years related experience, preferred
- One (1) to two (2) years management/supervisory experience preferred.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
- Must be a Registered by the Commission on Dietetic Registration
- Serve Safe Certification
Minimum Qualifications:
- Ability to communicate at all levels of organization and work well within a team environment in support of company objectives
- Customer service oriented with the ability to work well under pressure
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy, excellent organizational skills with ability to prioritize, coordinate and simultaneously maintain multiple projects with high level of quality and productivity
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Computer skills required
- Freedom from use of and effects of drugs and alcohol in the workplace
- Meets state and federal criminal background check requirements.
Leadership
Leadership is essential. The ideal candidate demonstrates willingness to try new tasks, generates new ideas for change; evaluates and recognizes priorities, selects effective team members, challenges others to learn, keeps current and integrates new information, communicates and models organization values, fosters high performance, recognizes need for and provides adequate resources.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each key function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the key functions.
- Participates in regularly scheduled conferences including department head meetings and interdisciplinary care plan meetings
- Oversees the purchase of food and supplies within budget and maintain a supply to adequately cover each meal
- Provides technical guidance and administrative direction over diet planning, menu formulation, preparation and service of regular and therapeutic diets
- Plans menus assuring they conform to nutritional standards, government and established regulations and procedures
- Interviews residents or family members, as necessary, to obtain diet history
- Participates in maintaining records of the resident’s food likes and dislikes
- Confirms that charted dietary progress notes are informative and descriptive of the services provided and of the resident’s response to the service
- Visits residents periodically to evaluate quality of meals served, likes and dislikes, etc.
- For Registered Dietitians with one location, they provide timely and accurate completion of dietary portion of MDS, CAA, Resident Care Planning, and Progress Notes as well as Dietary Assessment, Nutritional Data Card, Diet Card and any other dietary forms as required by the Administrator in order to comply with federal and state regulations and facility policies and procedures. For Registered Dietitians with multiple locations, this function may not be required
- Monitors meals to assure they provide nutritious, well-prepared, and palatable meals in a timely and consistent manner while adhering to menus and diet orders
- Verifies appropriate meals/snacks are served to residents with special dietary needs
- Monitors food production, maintaining use of standardized recipes and menus and ensures proper preparation and storage of food and supplies
- Monitors tray line and meal service to assure the highest level of quality and timeliness of food service is maintained
- Monitors to assure adequate food and supplies for disaster preparedness as required by state and federal regulations
- Assists to create job assignments and set priorities
- Meets facilities policies and State and Federal regulations regarding sanitation and safe food handling techniques
- Conducts at least monthly sanitation rounds of the kitchen and related areas to assure regulatory requirements and sanitation are maintained
- Develops plans of correction following State, Federal and QA surveys, as needed
- Maintains records, manage budget and supplies
- Monitors equipment and work areas to verify they are maintained in a clean, safe and orderly manner; maintains strict adherence to procedures regarding cleaners or hazardous materials or objects; verifies universal precautions and infection control, isolation, fire, safety and sanitation practices and procedures are followed; and promptly addresses any hazardous conditions and equipment
- Monitors food preparation and food storage areas to be sure that health and sanitation regulations are being met
- Reviews resident diet information and care plans, discusses with resident, family, and nursing staff, as necessary to make appropriate changes
- Creates and implements procedures for department equipment to be operated only by trained, authorized personnel in a safe manner
- Interprets Company policy and makes decisions based on the application of those policies where applicable
- Exercise unimpaired judgment in the interest of the Company
- Performs other duties as assigned
