Job Description

Requisition ID: 332230

Posting End Date: April 10, 2023

City: Winnipeg

Site: Golden Links Lodge Personal Care Home

Work Location:

Department / Unit: Food Services

Job Stream: Clinical Support

Union: Exempt

Anticipated Start Date: July 10, 2023

FTE: 0.4

Anticipated Shift: Days; Weekdays

Daily Hours Worked: 7.75

Annual Base Hours: 2015

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RESPONSIBILITY/AUTHORITY

Position Title: Clinical Registered Dietitian

Function: This position works closely with the nursing and other

allied health professionals to provide clinical nutrition

support to the residents of Golden Links Lodge

Personal Care Home.

Reports to Director of Care

Major functions / accountabilities:

• Clinical Assessment, development, and implementation of nutrition care plans for residents.

• Provide education relating to clinical nutrition topics for residents/families and staff.

• Foodservice support and liaison

• Development and implementation of policies, procedures and QI tools related to clinical nutrition services.

• Integration of research findings for clinical practice.

• Will work in conjunction with Management to provide supervision, training, and ensure procedures and policies are being followed by all food services staff.

• Clinical Assessment and development and implementation of nutrition care plans for residents.

• Complete clinical nutrition assessments on all residents and develop an overall nutrition care plan upon admission, annually, and as required.

• Prescribe meals, nourishments, and supplements for the residents to meet their identified nutritional and therapeutic needs.

• Chart the nutrition care plans and interventions and ensures this is updated quarterly.

• Participates in Resident\'s Care Conferences as schedule/caseload allows, or ensures pertinent information is available.

• Responsible to keep Diet Manual current.

• Initiate related activities such as 24-hour food records.

• Education and in servicing

• Educate and train staff/residents/families in nutrition as it relates to the care of residents and staff.

• Provide nutrition education in the form of one-on-one counseling for residents related to their therapeutic diet.

• Foodservice support and liaison

• Provide direction and review of the department\'s annual cycle menu to ensure nutritional adequacy.

• Development and maintenance of nutritional reference material to assist Foodservice department in carrying out their duties accurately.

• Development and implementation of policies and procedures and QI tools related to clinical nutrition services.

• Develop and maintain QI tools in clinical nutrition reflecting risk management and quality/best practice standards.

• Develop and maintain clinical nutrition policies and procedures that support department objectives, quality initiatives and best practices in the field.

• Develop and complete a variety of audits for the food services program to meet standards requirements

Accountability limitations (applicable to all the above)

Decisions regarding changes related to processes/procedures in clinical nutrition are made in conjunction with other departments and/or direct report depending on area(s) of impact.

This position requires a current satisfactory Criminal Records Check (including Vulnerable Sector Search), Child Abuse Registry Check and Adult Abuse Registry Check as conditions of employment. The successful candidate will be responsible for any service charges incurred. A security check is considered current if it was obtained no more than six (6) months prior to the start of employment.

Please note that an employee is not permitted to hold two or more positions across the WRHA legal entity that combine to equal more than 1.0 EFT. The WRHA legal entity includes Churchill Health Centre, Deer Lodge Centre, Grace Hospital, Middlechurch Home of Winnipeg, Pan Am Clinic, River Park Gardens, Victoria General Hospital, WRHA corporate programs, and WRHA community health services.

Interviewed candidates may be called upon to participate in a skills assessment.

Any application received after the closing time will not be included in the competition.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request during the assessment and selection process.

Winnipeg Regional Health Authority