Junior Dietician

Role & responsibilities

• To meet all the inpatients on daily basis during the regular ward visits.
• To plan the diets according to the patients medical condition.
• To initiate the nutrition care process by way of performing nutrition screening that identifies patients at Nutrition risk.
• To do the re-assessment or monitor the prognosis of all the patients who are at nutrition risk.
• Monitor patients tolerance to nutrition & take appropriate action when required.
• Handling the patient queries and complaints from time to time.
• Translate scientific information about nutrition into practical advice to help people make health conscious decision about food to prevent future problems and to treat diet related problems.
• Calculating patients nutritional requirement using standard equations based on health.
• To be responsible for the daily operations of the Nutrition therapy department along with the kitchen.
• Coordinating with kitchen for food quality and supervising right quality/ quantity for inpatients as per the meal plan.
• To fulfill patient nutritional requirement while planning the discharge diets for nutritional care at home.
• To supervise the food service supervisors during the loading of patient food trolleys and monitoring the delivering of patient meals on time.
• To prepare the Kitchen Order takers sheet this gives the summary of all the therapeutic diets to be prepared for the patient meals.
• To prepare meal tickets for all the meals of the patient according to the clinical data this is provided to the F & B department for the patient service.
• To take the patient feedback about the food services and do a proper corrective plan in case of complains.
• To assist the Chief dietician in all departmental activities.
• To assist the Chief dietician in menu planning.
• Periodically giving corporate lectures and presentations on various topics.
• Running clinics in hospital outpatient department for patients who have been referred by the hospital consultants, GPs or health visitors.
• To be a part of the Quality Improvement Initiative & Protocols of the organization.

Preferred candidate profile

M.Sc. / PGD in Nutrition Therapy / Dietetics / Clinical Nutrition

Experience -

1 to 6 yrs.

Preferred candidates from Navi Mumbai and Thane