Clinical Dietitian

The Clinical Dietician reflects the mission, vision, and values of the organization, adheres to the organization’s Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program, and complies with all relevant policies, procedures, guidelines and all other regulatory and accreditation standards.

The Clinical Dietician’s role is to develop and implement nutrition therapy plans for patients by evaluating nutrition parameters and selecting appropriate therapies to restore or maintain optimal nutritional status. Provide nutrition education for the community and other health professionals as a means of ensuring comprehensive care.

Provide nutritional assessments utilizing medical information, anthropometric data, laboratory values and diet history

• Develop nutrition care plans by selecting nutrition therapies to meet the medical, developmental and socio-cultural needs, age and interest level of the patient Identify appropriate nutritional interventions:
• Provide recommendations regarding calorie/protein supplements, enteral support and vitamin/mineral supplements and other commercial products.
• Select appropriate feeding route and enteral product including additional modular or vitamin/mineral preparations.
• Counsel patients on appropriate nutrition therapy for disease state, desired outcomes and patient behaviour objectives.
• Evaluate effectiveness of intervention utilizing BMI, changes in medical condition and tolerance to therapy
• Educate on diet according to disease state, medical condition and health risk
• Provide written documentation of all patient assessment and follow-up consultation sessions in the medical record
• Communicate effectively with interdisciplinary team
• Participate in in-service training for department staff
• Participate on department teams as assigned
• Orient relief personnel and new staff to area of practice to provide consistent patient care
• Contact as needed with the multi-disciplinary team to implement care plans, provide education and develop programs.
• Ongoing communication as needed with families of patients, providers and other resources as needed by the individual patient.

Experience and Skills Required

Experience required:

• 5 years clinical dietetics experience

• Training and work experience in the US/Western training/Experience

Skills required:

• High level interpersonal skills, including the ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with patients, physicians, management, staff and other customers.

• Demonstrated customer service skills, including the ability to use appropriate judgment, independent thinking, flexibility and creativity when resolving customer issues.

• Ability to apply critical thinking, communication, influence, and flexibility to make optimal decisions based on multiple variables and desired outcomes.

• Good ability to effectively handle challenging situations and balance multiple priorities

• Strong data, analytical and finance orientation.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Desire to work in multi-disciplinary setting.

• Recognizes and accepts accountability for safety and care of patients

• Demonstrated patient centered / patient valued behaviors.

• Ability to maintain a high degree of confidentiality.

• Fluent English speaker. Knowledge of Arabic will be an advantage although not essential

Qualification’s

Essential: Bachelor’s Degree in Dietetics

Preferred: Masters in related field.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: QAR5,000.00 - QAR15,000.00 per month