Diabetes Educator

The Educator Diabetes (Dietitian) is responsible for providing nutrition assessments and care planning for patients with a focus on Whole Food Plant Based. The Clinical Dietitian implements business practices in order to uphold Lifestyle Medicine and Midland Health’s mission and core values and contributes to account revenue and operating profit contribution through the implementation of nutrition services. The clinical Dietitian will pay a key role in the Lifestyle Medicine programs.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS/PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS
• Conducts nutrition assessments for patients at high, moderate, and low risk, and patients requiring artificial nutrition support.
• Implementation and monitoring of Medical Nutrition Therapy interventions.
• Patient education regarding therapeutic diets and home nutrition support regimens.
• Participate in the Lifestyle Medicine Programs. Including but not limited to, CHIP, Pritikin Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation nutrition education.
• Attends and participates in all interdisciplinary meetings as scheduled.
• Aids in ensuring patient satisfaction levels are always met.
• Follows all HIPAA policies.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
• Must have a bachelor’s degree or higher in Nutrition or related field.
• Must be credentialed as a Registered Dietitian by the Commission on Dietetic Registration or registration eligible (must show proof of completion of internship)
• Must be licensed in the State of Texas
• No experience required.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The individual must be able to:

Ø Stand, walk, sit, stoop, reach, lift, speak and hear. Lifting is limited to 35 lbs. for clinical staff and to 50 lbs. for non-clinical staff. The individual must use an assisted-lift device or get another individual(s) to assist with the lift that is over these maximum limits.

SUPERVISION REQUIREMENTS
No supervision of others required.

Premier Physicians and Midland Health reserves the unlimited right to revise all or any part of this job description and the essential functions of the job and to add or eliminate essential functions of any position.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee. He or she will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any duties required by his or her supervisor.