Dietitian (Part-Time)

Gateway Foundation Inc. Springfield, Illinois
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December 7, 2022
Gateway Foundation Inc.
Springfield, Illinois
PART_TIME

Are you looking to find personal and professional fulfillment, and align your career with your values?

At Gateway Foundation, our employees have an opportunity to make a difference every day by helping people with substance abuse issues gain control of their lives.

Gateway Foundation is a recognized non-profit leader in evidence-based treatment proven to get results. Our experts in Addiction Medicine—including highly educated clinical and medical professionals and expert psychiatrists and nurses—deliver care that never stops. Throughout Gateway’s proud history of helping others, dedicated and professional employees have been vital to accomplishing our life-saving mission. Read more about the incredible recognition that we received!

If you are a collaborative professional who shares our commitment to helping people with substance abuse and mental health issues turn their lives around – GATEWAY IS THE PLACE FOR YOU!

Two days Per Week (16-20 hours)

Dietitians are responsible for:

  • Consults with and instructs clients with complex nutritional deficiencies, determining extent and duration of diet therapy and instructs clients and clients' families in appropriate diet upon dis-charge.
  • Reviews and interprets physician prescribed diets, calculating special diets, writing nutritional care plans, and evaluating and documenting clients' response to diet therapy.
  • Interviews clients with complex nutritional deficiencies, determines suitability for treatment and prepares written evaluations of clients' nutritional state.
  • Confers with physicians and nursing personnel in order to clarify orders, recommend appropriate diet treatments and exchange client information.
  • May attend and contribute to client care meetings and conferences with physicians, nurses and other personnel in order to promote, and ensure proper dietary care.
  • Makes recommendations regarding development of master general menu as well as departmental policies and procedures.
  • Other duties as assigned

Job Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Dietetics or closely related field preferred
  • General knowledge of the physical, cognitive and psychosocial functioning level of the client population; and the demonstrated ability to appropriately interact, tailor interventions, and communicate with the client based on the individual client maturation level.
  • Work requires the analytical ability to collect information from diverse sources, apply professional principles in performing various analyses, and summarize the information and data in order to solve problems or design relatively complex systems and programs.

Physical Requirements:

  • Work requires ability to communicate orally.
  • Work requires proofreading and checking documents for accuracy.

Gateway Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Race/Color/Sex/Sexual Orientation/ Gender Identity/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Vets. Please view Equal Employment Opportunity Posters provided by OFCCP here.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $21.13 - $30.46 per hour

Medical specialties:

  • Dietetics

Schedule:

  • Day shift

Education:

  • Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

  • Dietician: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: One location


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