Administrative Dietitian - Nutrition & Food Services

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Req ID: 158811
Company: Nova Scotia Health
Location: Western Zone, Valley Regional Hospital
Department: NFS Nutrition & Food Services WZ
Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly PT ( 80% FTE) x 1 position(s)
Status: CUPE Healthcare Position
Posting Closing Date: 23-Jun-23
Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators and creative thinkers today.
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About The Opportunity
As a member of the Nutrition and Food Services team the administrative dietitian will collaborate with Cooks, diet technician, and NFS leadership including the NFS \Supervisors, Nutrition and Food Services Manager, and others to advance the implementation of recipes and menus that support the department’s financial, local food and healthy eating initiatives. The dietitian will work collaboratively with NFS leadership, dietitians, diet techs and food service production and delivery team members to plan and implement room service, retail and other initiatives at the facility level. The administrative dietitian will help to coordinate inventory and production systems for patient, Veteran, resident and retail food services and develop, educate, implement and evaluate processes and outcomes. The administrative dietitian may also assist in the provision of nutrition care by assuring the optimal nutrition status of patients who require hospitalization and education of patients as a member of the interdisciplinary health professional team.
About You
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

• Bachelor’s degree with major concentration in Foods and Nutrition required
• Ability to prioritize, problem solve, and work under pressure of time limitations
• Ability to work independently and as a member of a multidisciplinary healthcare team
• Dietetic Internship Program required
• Demonstrated interpersonal and communication skills
• Competency in dysphagia management, enteral and parenteral nutrition
• Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office computer applications, Familiarity with the Meditech considered an asset information system considered an asset
• Experience counselling patients in an outpatient setting
• Demonstrated participation in continuing education and upgrading of skills
• Current WHMIS an asset
• Minimum one (1) year working experience as a dietitian preferred
• Strong client focus and ability to build solid client/practitioner relationships
• Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred
• Inpatient clinical nutrition experience an assets
• Current registration (or eligibility) with the Nova Scotia Dietetic Association is required
• Demonstrated leadership abilities

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.
Hours

• Permanent Part-time, 80% FTE; 60 hours biweekly
• Hours may include days, evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Compensation and Incentives
$32.31 - $42.58 Hourly
Successful candidates may be eligible for our benefits package which includes health, dental, travel, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage as well as a defined benefit pension plan. (Permanent and Long Assignments only)
Once You've Applied
Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.
This is a Healthcare bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Employees are encouraged to view their seniority hours and dates in their SuccessFactors online profile. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and/or usage, prior to accepting the position.
Preferred candidates must be able to demonstrate proof of primary series of COVID -19 vaccine at time of hire.
Nova Scotia Health is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity and is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. We encourage all qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotian, Persons of Colour, Foreign Nationals/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply and self-identify.
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