Inpatient Pediatric Dietitian RD I
The Inpatient Pediatric Registered Dietitian I provides medical nutrition therapy at UChicago Medicine’s Comer Children’s Hospital, a Level I Trauma Center with a Level IV NICU. They play a critical role in assessing, planning, and managing nutrition interventions to support healthy growth, manage medical conditions, and improve overall health outcomes in pediatric patients. The preferred dietitian has at least 1-2 years of experience specializing in the nutritional care of infants, children, and adolescents.
This position will provide MNT across a variety of service lines, including inpatient PICU, General Medicine, and Burn, as well as coverage for both inpatient and outpatient cystic fibrosis and NICU follow-up clinic patients.
Skills and Competencies:
- Strong knowledge of pediatric nutrition and medical nutrition therapy.
- Excellent communication and counseling skills for interacting with children and families.
- Ability to work collaboratively within an interdisciplinary healthcare team.
- Proficiency in using electronic medical records and nutrition analysis software.
- Commitment to ongoing professional development and staying current with evidence-based practices.
Essential Job Functions:
- Performs the nutrition care process (nutrition assessment, nutrition diagnosis and determination of care goals, nutrition intervention, and monitoring and evaluation) for patients at nutrition risk and others identified per department standards as in need of nutrition care.
- Provide age-specific patient education (assessment of learning needs and barriers to learning; communication with patient/caregivers and assessing learning transfer) and develop materials as needed to augment the education process.
- Calculates nutrient requirements and intake.
- Assesses need for and determines appropriate composition, rate, etc. of enteral tube feeding and standard parenteral nutrition, if applicable
- Uses computer programs to access information and communicate with other members of the interdisciplinary team.
- Documents clinical care according to organizational guidelines
Required Qualifications:
- BS/BA in Nutrition, Dietetics or other relevant major with completion of didactic program in dietetics if necessary
- MS degree in Nutrition, Dietetics, or other relevant majoror a specialty certification relevant to position (e.g. Certified Specialist in Pediatrics, Certified Nutrition Support Clinician, Certified Specialist in Oncology, Certified Specialist in Renal) preferred
Position Details:
- Job Type/FTE: Full-Time, 1.0
- Shift: Day
- Work Location: Hyde Park
- Unit/Department: Comer Clinical Nutrition
- CBA Code: Non-Union
