Assistant Director, Clinical Nutrition Services/Director, DI

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Work Location: Atlanta, GA

OVERVIEW:

• Plans, directs, and evaluates a wide variety of nutritional care systems for the Food and Nutrition Services Department for Emory Hospitals.
• Develops and manages clinical nutrition and dietetic internship budget.
• Establishes and monitors quality measures within clinical nutrition and the dietetic internship.
• Participates in interdisciplinary, enterprise/system-wide, hospital-wide and departmental committees.
• Oversees development of education materials and programs for physicians, medical residents, and allied health professionals.
• Participates in developing and implementing departmental policies and procedures in accordance with state, federal, and organizational guidelines.
• Assists in the development and maintenance of departmental and hospital information systems.
• Collaborates with the Executive Chef and others regarding menu planning.
• Generates, evaluates, and creates care plans and reports utilizing nutrition care metrics to capture revenue.
• Manages staff and employees.
• Determines staffing needs, interviews and hires staff.
• Provides on-going performance feedback, addresses problems, orients and trains employees, verifies competency and identifies and suggests ways to develop skills.
• Determines disciplinary, termination and salary actions.
• Completes other clinical management duties as assigned.
• Directs all aspects of the dietetic internship program to ensure maintenance of the Accreditation Council for Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND) standards.
• Assesses, plans, evaluates, and revises the program to ensure interns achieve required competencies.
• Coordinates rotations, including creating and managing schedules in clinical nutrition, food service, community and enrichment experiences at Emory Hospitals and a variety of other facilities.
• Establishes a Dietetic Internship Advisory Committee to determine future trends in dietetics.
• Promotes the national recognition of the Emory University Hospital Dietetic Internship through marketing, presentations, and attendance at national, regional, and local meetings.
• Leads student recruitment, advisement, evaluation and counseling.
• Facilitates the implementation of contractual agreements to support intern experiences at external sites.
• Handles all reports, communication and tasks to maintain program accreditation.
• Reviews rotation evaluations and ensures required competencies are met by each intern to support eligibility for a Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) credentialing exam.
• Responsible for the following:
  • timely submission of fees
  • reports and requests for major program changes; maintenance of the program student records, including student advising plans and verification statements; maintenance of complaints about the program received from students or others, including disposition of the complaint; on-going review of program curriculum to meet the accreditation standards; communication and coordination with program faculty
  • preceptors and others involved with the program; facilitation of processes for continuous program evaluation and student learning outcomes assessment; timely submission of required documentation supporting the graduate's eligibility for a Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) credentialing exam.
• Completes other internship-related duties as assigned.
• In addition, this position may be required to deliver nutrition care to a subset of patients consistent with the expectations of a clinical dietitian III or above.
• Performs related responsibilities as required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Registered dietitian licensed in the state of Georgia.
• A master's degree in Food & Nutrition, Dietetics or related area.
• Five years of related experience of which four must be in clinical nutrition and two must be in a supervisory or management capacity.
• One year of experience teaching/precepting dietetic interns required.

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