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About the Role
The Clinical Nutrition Manager is tasked with fostering relationships and cultivating new business ventures both internally and externally to advance Nutrition Services in alignment with Bronson's corporate Plan for Excellence. This role entails providing guidance and vision in crafting a strategic plan for Nutrition Services that underscores clinical proficiency, customer satisfaction, and overall corporate efficacy.
Key duties involve overseeing, delegating, and supervising the work and schedules of registered dietitians to ensure adherence to compliance standards and the departmental strategic objectives. This includes recruitment, hiring, and onboarding of staff, as well as regular review and updating of policies and procedures. Additionally, implementing and managing cost control measures while upholding professional competency in dietetic practice are essential aspects of the role.
Collaboration with the Director of Food and Nutrition Services is vital to uphold quality standards in food and nutrition delivery. Continuous professional development to maintain expertise in dietetic practice is paramount. For those directly involved in patient care, demonstrating competencies tailored to the served population is imperative.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Clinical Nutrition, Food and Nutrition, or related field; and 5 years’ experience as a clinical education dietitian with 2 years’ supervisory experience required, Master’s degree preferred.
- Completion of a didactic program in dietetics and supervised practice program approved by the Commission on Accreditation for Dietetics of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Registered Dietitian with active registration by the Commission on Dietetic Registration of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (must be in good standing and valid in the state of Michigan), maintaining requirements of continuing education through Professional Development Portfolio; Licensure as this becomes required by State of Michigan.
- Comprehensive knowledge and application of medical nutrition therapy and the nutrition care process
- Knowledge of nutrient analysis, word processing, power point, data base queries/management, electronic medical record charting, and spreadsheet software.
Key Responsibilities
Goals and plans
- Creates and implements a strategic plan that positions dietitians into key roles as providers of medical nutrition therapy, resulting in high quality, high values, and cost effective patient care.
- Establishes and integrates department goals with hospital-wide annual goals and visions to provide clinical excellence in nutritional care.
- Budgets and revenue (corporate effectiveness) – 10%
- Assists in budget planning, projects revenue and productivity, and establishes financial objectives.
- Implements and maintains cost control procedures, adhering to budget constraints while guaranteeing quality service.
Policies and procedures
- Assesses, designs, implements, and evaluates nutrition care policies and procedures to achieve cost containment and improved patient outcomes. Reviews and revises policies and procedures as needed.
- Monitors department outcomes and adjusts processes to ensure evidence based practices and improve employee and patient satisfaction.
- Develops or obtains organizationally approved diet manual, nutrition practice guidelines, and current reference and education materials, and monitors and implements new developments as appropriate.
- Develops, initiates, and monitors a performance improvement program in accordance with Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (TJC) requirements.
- Assists in achieving compliance with regulatory agency standards, including state, federal, and TJC standards.
Human resource management
- Develops job descriptions and determines levels of competency necessary to meet mandatory job requirements.
- Recruits, interviews, hires, and facilitates training of new employees to meet department staffing needs.
- Manages, disciplines, and evaluates the performance of assigned department personnel based on job requirements and core competencies assigned to the job.
- Provides or facilitates in-services and training opportunities for clinical nutrition staff.
- Resolves conflicts using constructive coaching techniques while providing employees with feedback that is timely, clear, and appropriate.
- Conducts regularly scheduled staff meetings.
Clinical Nutrition Operations (Clinical excellence)
- Directs the provision of medical nutrition therapy by supervising the activities of clinical dietitians including nutrition screening, assessment, monitoring, and education according to established departmental policies.
- Schedules clinical nutrition staff according to department needs and budgeted hours.
- Addresses questions and concerns of patients and families, community members, and health professionals using nutrition knowledge and problem solving skills.
- Monitors and integrates technological advances that enhance efficiency.
- Demonstrates accountability for the proper use of patients’ protected health information.
Professional interface (Customer service) – 25%
- Interacts with hospital corporate administration, management, professional staff, and foodservice staff to promote interdepartmental communication and cooperation and to ensure patient’s nutritional needs are met.
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