Manager Clinical Nutrition

Location:

Geisinger Medical Center (GMC)

Shift:

Days (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Worker Type:

Regular

Exemption Status:

Yes

Job Summary:

Are you an experienced RD/RDN looking for a unique and challenging leadership position? This position blends clinical, operational leadership, and education of future RDNs. What more could you ask for?
This manager position oversees the Milk Lab at Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA and provides clinical expertise to the Milk Lab at Geisinger Wyoming Valley, Wilkes Barre. This manager also helps guide dietetic master's students through clinical rotations at Geisinger.

Responsible for managing Clinical Nutrition Services for assigned areas; responsible for planning, monitoring, and maintaining the budgets. Instills and maintains a customer service approach throughout all aspects of the responsibility area.

Job Duties:

• Supervises the Clinical Nutrition staff; manages Clinical Nutrition services provided at all clinics, and hospital sites for which he/she is responisble.
• Focuses staff on common goals, engages people to work together, uses leadership techniques that facilitate teamwork.
• Coordinates the implementation and evaluation of clinical standards of practice, performance improvement projects and service standards.
• Seeks input from management and implements recommendations in the process of developing and administering budgets; understands key financial terms and budget concepts; understands the expense and revenue aspects of the budgets; controls operational costs.
• Manages the budgets on a day-to-day basis.
• Responsible for recruitment, interviewing, and selection of staff at assigned sites.
• Coordinates and conducts orientation programs.
• Schedules staff for inpatient and outpatient services; maintains personnel files.
• Serves as resource to Clinical Nutrition staff.
• Develops and implements performance improvement activities; reports these activities to designated committees.
• Represents and participates in performance improvement teams as needed.
• Designs clinical nutrition policies, protocols, standards and work systems for inpatients and outpatients.
• Seeks approval when needed from administration and medical staff.
• Guides the development, evaluation, and refinement of individual objectives consistent with departmental goals and insures achievement of objectives.
• Facilitates appropriate recognition of individual staff performance in an effort to maintain a positive and motivational work environment.
• Provides some direct patient Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) on a limited basis, including in-or out-patient MNT.
• Serves as preceptor and coordinator for all dietetics students or other students as requested for campuses.
• Coordinates the planning, implementation and evaluation of clinical learning objectives.
• Manages all community, staff, student, and media requests for Clinical Nutrition.

Work is typically performed in a clinical environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job. Additional competencies and skills outlined in any department-specific orientation will be considered essential to the performance of the job related to that position.

Position Details:

Geisinger cares about not only its patients and members but also about you and your family. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package to ensure that you and your loved ones can maintain good health, achieve financial stability, and excel both personally and professionally.

Benefits of working at Geisinger:

• Full benefits (health, dental and vision) starting on day one 

• Three medical plan choices, including an expanded network for out-of-area employees and dependents  

• Pre-tax savings plans with healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSA) and a health savings account (HSA)  

• Company-paid life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability coverage  

• 401(k) plan that includes automatic Geisinger contributions  

• Generous paid time off (PTO) plan that allows you to accrue time quickly  

• Up to $5,000 in tuition reimbursement per calendar year  

• MyHealth Rewards wellness program to improve your health while earning a financial incentive  

• Family-friendly support including adoption and fertility assistance, parental leave pay, military leave pay and a free Care.com membership with discounted backup care for your loved ones  

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Referrals for childcare, eldercare, & pet care. Access free legal guidance, mental health visits, work-life support, digital self-help tools and more.  

• Voluntary benefits including accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, identity theft protection, universal life and pet and legal insurance  

Education:

Bachelor's Degree-Nutrition (Required), Master's Degree- (Preferred)

Experience:

Minimum of 5 years-Related work experience (Required), Minimum of 2 years-Managerial/Supervisory (Required)

Certification(s) and License(s):

Certified Dietitian/Nutritionist - Default Issuing Body

Skills:

Communication, Mentoring Skills, Office Administration

OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities.

• KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves.
• EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence.
• LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow.
• INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.
• SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family. 

We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners. Perhaps just as important, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality.

We know that a diverse workforce with unique experiences and backgrounds makes our team stronger. Our patients, members and community come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and it takes a diverse workforce to make better health easier for all.  We are proud to be an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran.