Director of Clinical Nutrition
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- OUR PATIENT POPULATION
- Patients have a primary eating disorder diagnosis: anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), binge eating disorder (BED), avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), or other specified feeding or eating disorder (OSFED).
- Eating disordered behaviors include restricting food intake, binge eating, purging (by vomiting, laxative use or over-exercise), body checking.
- Eating disorder symptoms include body dysmorphia, preoccupation with food, weight, and calories.
- Co-occurring diagnoses often include major depressive disorder (MDD), obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), or generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bipolar disorder.
- Many individuals with eating disorders have experienced trauma
- QUALIFICATIONS
- Registered Dietitian with up-to-date credentialing. Must maintain registration throughout employment. Minimum two years experience in treating eating disorders
- Knowledge of evidence based treatments and ability to individualize treatment approaches to meet each client's needs
- Must be able to conceptualize and implement a master treatment plan with fully developed problems, objectives and work in coordination with a treatment team, including therapists, medical doctors, psychiatrists.
- ROLE OF Director of Medical and Clinical Nutrition Services
- Reports to Chief Executive Officer/Director of Operations
- Attend leadership meetings
- Responsible to manage budget for the department.
- Responsible to supervise medical nutritional therapy and counseling aspects of BRR programming, ensuring that Bright Road Recovery’s nutrition philosophy and guidelines are being translated to clients and staff members clearly.
- Responsible to hire, train and manage registered dietitians and RD eligible dietitians.
- Expected to represent Bright Road Recovery at conferences and events as needed.
- Expected to make presentations on pertinent topics as needed.
- Conduct individual, group and family nutritional therapy sessions for program and outpatient patients, as assigned
- Conduct nutrition assessments as needed.
- Participate in case management and care coordination, including utilization reviews and multidisciplinary treatment team meetings
- Maintain appropriate and timely contact with referring professionals, outpatient professionals, and any collateral contacts necessary for the patients’ treatment
- Detailed and timely documentation, including: nutrition assessment, weekly goal setting and treatment planning, session progress notes and discharge reporting and recommendations
- Engage in milieu management, interacting with clients to provide support, information and learn where quality improvement is needed.
- Provide support to patients by performing the following during supported meals:
- Redirect conversations from inappropriate or triggering topics of conversation
- negative food talk, negative body talk, calories, diets, fitness plans or exercise, drug or alcohol use, violent or sexually explicit topics;
- Redirect eating disorder behaviors such as micro-cutting, micro-biting, or sorting of foods;
- Model proper table manners and eating behaviors;
- Eat without judgment
- Refrain from food talk
- Refrain from discussing diets or weight loss;
- Refrain from use of words like “healthy,” “good,” or “bad” in association with food
- Provide emotional support, positive modeling within appropriate therapeutic scope of practice;
- Support dietetics staff members as they manage the specifics of meal completion/supplementation, time-management of meals, and behavior redirection.
- Help patients move toward a healthier relationship with food and a more intuitive and mindful way of eating
- Redirect conversations from inappropriate or triggering topics of conversation
- GENERAL JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
- Participate in developing, updating and ensuring compliance with:
- Emergency Procedures Manual
- Staff Policies Manual
- Patient Responsibilities Manual
- Employee Handbook
- Opening and closing responsibilities per Staff Policies
- Administrative duties as described
- Additional duties and tasks as assigned
- Participate in developing, updating and ensuring compliance with: