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Registered Dietitian Full Time Days
Job ID: 2503021245-0
Date posted: 08/10/2025
Facility: Hi-Desert Continuing Care Center
Job Details
Description
At Hi-Desert Medical Center (HDMC) we've been caring for our community for over 40 years. Our Continuing Care Center (CCC), located on the campus of HDMC, provides specialized care to residents close to their own communities, with spectacular panoramic views of desert landscapes for both residents and their guests
The Continuing Care Center has 120 beds and offers three distinct levels of service in semi-private rooms:
Subacute care: This is the highest level of care available in our long-term care setting. The CCC provides 25 beds dedicated to residents with ventilator and tracheostomy requirements. Clinical staff is specially trained to meet the unique needs of these patients. The CCC is one of the few facilities in Southern California providing this level of care.
Skilled nursing care: We provide long-term skilled nursing care to residents who require assistance with personal and medical needs. Care is provided to our patients who require rehabilitative therapies, wound care or recovery from accidents or invasive procedures.
Long-Term Care: We provide long-term care to residents who require assistance with personal and medical needs.
Position Summary:
Monitors nutritional care, manages physician ordered therapeutic diets and provides nutritional education to patients. Directs, supervises, and coordinates diet office activities.
Shift: Days
Hours: M-F, 8:00AM -4:30PM
Primary Duties
1. Provides Kitchen oversight and monitors kitchen staff, assures kitchen staff training is complete.
2. Educates kitchen staff as procedures, policy, and regulations change. Assures performance improvement by the kitchen staff.
3. Documents all relevant aspects of nutritional care for patients in accordance with departmental standards.
4. Performs nutritional assessments as determined. Requests patient food preferences and prepares patient diets on a daily basis.
5. Attends health care team meetings regularly to discuss patient care needs.
6. Educated patients on long term nutritional care through individual discussions, group classes and community speaking engagements.
7. Writes modified diets and coordinates diet adaptations with house menus Charts diets in medical records.
8. Serves as an educational resource to nursing and medical personnel.
9. Assists with care and maintenance of department equipment and supplies..
10. Maintains department records, reports, and files as required.
11. Enhances professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, current literature, in-service meetings, and workshops.
Qualifications
Position Specifications
Physical demands:
· Occasional walking, standing
· Lift supplies/equipment
· Moderate physical effort (lift/carry up to 25 pounds)
· Occasional reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling and crouching
Working Conditions:
· Exposed to varying degrees of kitchen elements
· May be exposed to/occasionally exposed to patient elements
Minimum Education/Certification/Experience:
· Knowledge of foods/nutrition; food preparation; production; supervisory/instructional techniques
· Sufficient previous experience in dietetics
· Supervisory experience preferred
· Post High School Vocational/Specialized Training
· D.S.S. Certification
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