Dietitian/Clinical Nutrionist

Job Role: Dietitian/Clinical Nutritionist

Location: chennai

Status: Full Time

CTC: Negotiable

Qualification: M.Sc (Relevant Disciplines), Ph.D (Nutrition)

Experience: Minimum 2 years of relevant experience is essential.

Job Tasks:

• Counsel individuals and groups on basic rules of good nutrition, healthy eating habits, and nutrition monitoring to improve their quality of life.


• Assess nutritional needs, diet restrictions and current health plans to develop and implement dietary-care plans and provide nutritional counselling.


• Advise patients and their families on nutritional principles, dietary plans and diet modifications, and food selection and preparation.


• Consult with physicians and health care personnel to determine nutritional needs and diet restrictions of patient or client.


• Monitor food service operations to ensure conformance to nutritional, safety, sanitation and quality standards.


• Organize, develop, analyze, test, and prepare special meals such as low-fat, low-cholesterol and chemical-free meals.


• Develop curriculum and prepare manuals, visual aids, course outlines, and other materials used in teaching.


• Make recommendations regarding public policy, such as nutrition labelling, food fortification, and nutrition standards.


• Purchase food in accordance with health and safety codes.


• Plan and conduct training programs in dietetics, nutrition, and institutional management and administration for medical students, health-care personnel and the general public.


• Plan, conduct, and evaluate dietary, nutritional, and epidemiological research.


• Coordinate diet counselling services.


• Select, train and supervise workers who plan, prepare and serve meals.


• Manage quantity food service departments or clinical and community nutrition services.


• Develop policies for food service or nutritional programs to assist in health promotion and disease control.


• Inspect meals served for conformance to prescribed diets and standards of palatability and appearance.


• Write research reports and other publications to document and communicate research findings.


• Coordinate recipe development and standardization and develop new menus for independent food service operations.


• Prepare and administer budgets for food, equipment and supplies.


• Test new food products and equipment.

KEY ACTIVITIES:

• Data Gathering, analysing and Maintaining.


• Communicating with supervisors or subordinates and also people outside the organization.


• Training and teaching skills.


• Interpreting the meaning of information.


• Decision making and Problem solving.


• Basic computer Knowledge.

Process of Selection:
Primary Screening.
Telephonic Round.
Written/Interview(subject to change).

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Company Profile: Fortis Healthcare Limited is committed to clinical excellence and patient-centric healthcare, which is manifest in hospital design, patient services, medical programmes and the compassionate approach of medical and non-medical hospital staff. Fortis commissioned its first hospital in 2001 at Mohali, near Chandigarh, and has expanded its operations to become a network with an over 10,000 bed capacity across 68 hospitals