Clinical Dietician (Casual), Transitional Health

If you take pride in being compassionate, honest, professional, and safe, consider a rewarding career as a Casual Clinical Dietician with our new West Bedford Transitional Health team, where you will help redefine how patients transition from hospital to home.

This innovative facility integrates data and technology into patient assessment, care delivery, and communication, while providing specialized, person-centred support for individuals who no longer require hospital-level treatment but need additional care to safely return home or transition back into their community. Our team is committed to dignity, safety, and clinical excellence in every interaction.

Reporting to the Transitional Health Manager, Allies Health, the Dietician is integral in supporting the goal of returning to home/community by being engaged in interprofessional collaboration, offering evidence based clinical expertise to inform care plans that fit with patient/family goals, using effective communication strategies, shared decision-making, and mutual support.

Meaningful Benefits

You will be surrounded by supportive and talented team members dedicated to helping patients successfully transition from hospital care back to their homes and communities. As an established and respected organization in the healthcare sector, Shannex offers opportunities for growth, development, and advancement in an environment where integrity, teamwork, and safety are at the heart of everything we do. At the end of every day, you will know you’ve made a meaningful difference in the lives of our patients and their families.

Additional Benefits Include:

• Free onsite parking

• Access to continuing education and training through Shannex’s Centre of Excellence

• Opportunities to be part of sector innovation and continuous improvement initiatives

• Recognition and Rewards for service excellence and safety

About the Opportunity

• Assists in the development of menus in accordance with therapeutic nutrition guidelines

• Assesses patients’ nutritional status on admission and at least semi-annually; reviews monthly weights and follows up as required

• Completes texture modification assessments on referral; participates as a member of the interdisciplinary team

• Addresses patients’ individual dietary concerns

• Develops and establishes policies and objectives consistent with those of the organization and department to ensure achievement of clinical goals

• Manages expenditures and works to ensure compliance with approved budget.

• Collects and enters appropriate data into appropriate software to ensure patient diet types and any likes, dislikes and allergies are accurately recorded

• Oversee and plan special nutrition needs for special diets, allergies and disease conditions

• Monitors and documents progress of patients at high nutritional risk utilizing electronic health care record

• Documents responses to referrals appropriately in electronic healthcare record

• Providing leadership and overseeing provision of quality maintenance of food services

• Communicate with other Dietitians to assess patient information prior to admission both to and from the facility

About You

In addition to placing high value on continuous improvement, collaboration and accountability, you bring:

• Bachelor of Science in Human Nutrition/Dietetics with completion of approved Dietetic Internship

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in the provision of clinical dietetic services

• Proof of valid membership in the Nova Scotia Regulator of Dietetics

• Proof of valid Basic/Advanced Food Safety Certification is required

• Training in dysphagia assessment and management is required

• Knowledge of principles and practices of dietetics and nutrition.

• Knowledge of nutritional problems and concerns of patient population.

• Knowledge of therapeutic meal planning

• Ability to analyze budgetary expenditures for compliance with approved budget.

• Ability to gather data, compile information, and prepare reports

• Proof of valid CPR/First Aid certification considered an asset

• Training in enteral nutrition is considered an asset

• Previous experience in LTC, acute care or equivalent considered an asset

• Successful candidates will be required to obtain a clear Criminal Record Check, and where applicable, a Vulnerable Sector Check, prior to appointment