Manager-Clinical Nutrition

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Job Requisition ID:

R00052144

Job Category:

Allied Health

Organization:

Clinical Nutrition

Location/s:

Main Campus Jackson

Job Title:

Manager-Clinical Nutrition

Job Summary:

Provides management and coordination of daily clinical nutrition operations including inpatient and outpatient nutrition services. This includes developing, planning, implementing and maintaining optimal nutritional care.

Education & Experience

Registered Dietitian as certified by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) and three years of experience. Experience cannot be substituted in lieu of educational requirement.

CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSES OR REGISTRATION REQUIRED:  Valid Dietitian license, registration as certified by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR).

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Knowledge of food and nutrition. Knowledge of project management principles, practices, techniques, and tools. Knowledge of performance management process and associated local, state, federal, and other regulations. Knowledge of federal, state, and JCAHO regulations, standards, protocols, and procedures. Customer service skills. Skill in budget preparation and fiscal management. Ability to ensure compliance with workplace safety, environmental, and infection control standards. Ability to train, motivate, and supervise employees.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates inpatient and outpatient clinical nutrition services for the institution.  Supervises the clinical dietitian staff including scheduling, assignments, hiring, conducting performance evaluations, managing performance and productivity.
• Serves as department liaison and member of appropriate committee, such as pharmacy, quality improvement, infection control, and diabetes education.  Participates as a member of the healthcare team to ensure continuity of care.  Provides internal and external education to enhance delivery of services.
• Ensures that all diets and eternal formulations are prepared in accordance with approved standards and cost considerations.
• Maintains the billing process according to policies and procedures.
• Evaluates clinical nutrition services on an ongoing basis to ensure highest level of service and quality.  Stays abreast of new and emerging trends in the practice of dietetics.
• Provides support, guidance, training and mentoring to dietetic staff.  Serves as preceptor for dietetic interns.
• The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Management retains the right to add or change duties at any time.

Physical and Environmental Demands

Requires occasional exposure to unpleasant or disagreeable physical environment such as high noise level and exposure to heat and cold, occasional handling or working with potentially dangerous equipment, frequent exposure to bio-hazardous conditions such as risk of radiation exposure, blood borne pathogens, fumes or airborne particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals which mandate attention to safety considerations, occasional working hours significantly beyond regularly scheduled hours, occasional travelling to offsite locations, occasional activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature, constant work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality, frequent bending, occasional lifting and carrying more than 100 pounds, frequent climbing, occasional crouching/stooping, occasional driving, occasional kneeling, occasional pushing/pulling, frequent reaching, occasional sitting, constant standing, frequent twisting, and constant walking. (occasional-up to 20%, frequent-from 21% to 50%, constant-51% or more)

Time Type:

Full time

FLSA Designation/Job Exempt:

Yes

Pay Class:

Salary

FTE %:

100

Work Shift:

Day

Benefits Eligibility:

Grant Funded:

No

Job Posting Date:

10/27/2026

Job Closing Date (open until filled if no date specified):