Nutritionist at Karen Hospital

Ref: N/N/09/2021

Overall Purpose: Job holder is responsible for patient health by completing the Nutrition process. The candidate should be able to counsel patients on nutrition issues and health eating habits.

Key Responsibilities:

• Evaluating and assessing nutritional needs, diet restrictions and current health plans and screens patients for nutritional risk in accordance with established department protocols and standards.
• Developing and implementing dietary care plans and providing nutritional counseling.
• Consulting with physicians and health care personnel to determine nutritional needs and diet restriction of patients
• Planning and initiating medical nutrition therapy to patients if indicated by patient requirements and clinical protocol.
• Communicating individual nutritional care plans to other health care providers as a member of a healthcare team.
• Calculating and writing enteral and parenteral feeds for patients according to patient’s nutritional requirements.
• Advising patients and their families on nutritional principles, dietary plans and diet modifications, and food selection and preparation.
• Monitoring food service to ensure conformance to prescribed diets and patient’s nutritional needs.
• Coordinating recipe development and standardization and developing new menus for different vulnerable groups in the hospital.
• Counseling PMTCT mothers on proper feeding practices and carried out demonstrations.
• Offer counseling and suggest positive alterations in nutrition to address clients’ dietary restrictions.

Minimum Requirement:

• Higher Diploma in Food, Nutrition & Dietetics
• Minimum of 4 years work experience in clinical nutrition.
• Must have a license from Kenya nutrition and dietetics (KNDI
• Experience in Preparation of therapeutic diets and dietary counseling.
• Must have Basic Life Support Course and Advanced Cardiac Life Support Course
• Computer skills and good reporting skills including experience in Health Information Systems
• At least two year’s professional experience nutrition Program monitoring and evaluation in county.
• HIV/ART specialized nutrition care.