Nutritionist at Avenue Healthcare

Job Objective/Purpose

To evaluate and assess nutritional needs, diet restrictions and nutrition health plans in accordance with established protocols and standards.

Key Responsibilities

• To conduct daily review of inpatients ‘to evaluate and assess their nutrition status.
• Screen patients for nutritional risk and initiate appropriate intervention.
• Plan and initiate medical nutrition therapy for patients if indicated by patient requirements and clinical protocol.
• Consult with physicians and other caregivers to determine nutritional needs and diet restrictions of patient or client.
• Communicate individual nutritional care plans to other health care providers as a member of a care team.
• Coordinate recipe development and standardization and develop new menus for different vulnerable groups in the hospital. 7. Monitor food service to ensure conformance to prescribed diets and patient’s nutritional needs.
• Educate and counsel patients and families on nutritional issues and maintain updated and necessary patient education materials and nutrition references.
• Advise food service managers and organizations on sanitation, safety procedures, menu development.
• Interpret physician diet orders and modify diet according to diet patterns and patient preferences.
• Instruct patients in diet principles and restrictions per physician diet orders and document pertinent clinical information.
• Advise on substitutions if the patient is unable to eat the meal provided, per diet restrictions.
• Advise and with the support of the food service, plan between-meal nourishments for patients as necessary.
• Complete nutritional assessments on patients receiving tube feeding or parenteral nutrition and compute nutritional value of constituents when necessary.
• Complete diet histories for nutritional assessment of patients
• Evaluate appropriateness of diet order for diagnosis and recommend diet order changes as indicated.
• Prepare departmental reports.
• Any other duty as assigned by the supervisor in line with the job description.

Personal Specifications

•  BSc Food, Nutrition & Dietetics
•  Higher Diploma in Food, Nutrition & Dietetics
•  Licensed by the Kenya Nutritionists and Dieticians Institute
•  2 years’ experience.
•  Customer Focus.
•  Result Oriented.