Supervisor Nutrition Services
Company: Aurora Health Care
Location: Chicago
Posted on: October 20, 2024
Job Description:
Major Responsibilities:
- Supervises the daily workflow of the site Nutrition Services
department, ensuring quality nutrition care is provided to all
patients.
- Manages all resources necessary to optimally provide nutrition
care, including maintaining appropriate staffing levels, office
supplies, equipment, and the automated patient care systems.
- Collaborates with Food Management regarding services that
affect both departments, including menu changes, procedure changes,
and performance improvement activities.
- Plans and coordinates supervised practice experiences for
dietetic students with schools and universities. Orients dietetic
students and assigns them to rotations with clinical dietitians and
dietetic technicians.
- Maintains an optimal level of area productivity based on labor
management standards.
- Maintains and promotes effective relationships with and between
patients, families, department staff, other hospital departments,
medical staff and their support staff, other health care
facilities, and vendors. Participates in problem resolution as
needed.
- Assures research based nutrition care by creating an
environment that encourages the utilization of research in
practice. Uses research in decision making to maintain quality,
cost, and customer service. Assures the integration of research in
congruence with departmental, organizational, and system strategic
goals.
- Assists physicians and other departments to develop new
services and identify potential new sources of revenue, and assists
in the marketing of existing and new programs.
- Provides nutrition care for patients, including nutrition
assessments, initiation or recommendations for nutrition therapy,
diet counseling, and documentation of care as needed, based on
department staffing, etc.
- Plans, coordinates, and presents educational programs for
Nutrition Services, nursing staff, medical residents, physicians,
dietetic students, and other professional and non-professional
staff. Serves as a resource person in the field of dietetics to
internal and external agencies. May serve as a consultant.
- Performs human resources responsibilities for staff which
includes coaching on performance, completes performance reviews and
overall staff morale. Recommends hiring, compensation changes,
promotions, corrective action decisions, and terminations.
- Responsible for understanding and adhering to the
organization's Code of Ethical Conduct and for ensuring that
personal actions, and the actions of employees supervised, comply
with the policies, regulations and laws applicable to the
organization's business.
- Must be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to
provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served. Must
demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development
over the life span and possess the ability to assess data
reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate
information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative
to his/her age-specific needs, and to provide the care needed as
described in the department's policies and procedures. Age-specific
information is developed further in the departmental job
standards.Licensure, Registration, and/or Certification
Required:
- Dietitian (RD) registration with the Academy of Nutrition and
Dietetics, and
- Dietitian certification issued by the state in which the team
member practices.Education Required:
- Bachelor's Degree in Dietetics.Experience Required:
- Typically requires 3 years of experience in a Registered
Dietitian position, with experience as a lead or senior level
staff.Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:
- Completion of a Commission on Accreditation for Dietetics
Education (CADE) internship or coordinated dietetic program.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and
demonstrable basic math skills.
- Exposure to and understanding of basic managerial skills.
- Strong aptitude in human resource management.Physical
Requirements and Working Conditions:
- Ability to handle multiple demands simultaneously.
- Will occasionally lifts up to 50 lbs. with assistance.
- Must have functional speech, vision, touch, smell, and
hearing.
- Must be able to operate all equipment necessary to perform the
job.
- May be exposed to the following hazards: mechanical,
electrical, chemical, radiation, blood and body fluids, therefore
must wear protective clothing.
- Sits the majority of the workday.This job description indicates
the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It
is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of
activities, duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent.
Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties.
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Keywords: Aurora Health Care, Carol Stream , Supervisor Nutrition Services, Other , Chicago, Illinois
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