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REGISTERED DIETITIAN

Join Jamaica Hospital Medical Center

Jamaica Hospital Medical Center—one of America’s 100 Best Hospitals by Healthgrades—is a 384-bed, not-for-profit, fully accredited community teaching hospital serving Queens since 1891, where we started in just a four-bedroom house. Today, we deliver nationally recognized care in cardiology, stroke, oncology, imaging, and emergency medicine, and are New York State’s only Primary Heart Attack Center and the first Comprehensive Stroke Center.

With an expanded Level I Trauma Center, Pediatric Emergency Department, modern maternity services, and over 120,000 ER visits annually, we offer dynamic opportunities for professional growth, impact and clinical excellence. Through our affiliation with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the upcoming opening of our newly built, state-of-the-art Cancer Center, we continue to expand access to world-class care.

As a safety-net hospital, filling a void for the people in the community, we proudly serve all patients regardless of ability to pay. Join us during this exciting period of growth and help shape the future of healthcare.

Mission: To serve our patients and the community in a way that is second to none. 

Vision: To be the premier integrated healthcare delivery system by providing the highest quality, most cost-effective service, which is accessible and sensitive to all.

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Jamaica Hospital

OUTPATIENT BARIATRIC SURGERY REGISTERED DIETITIAN

Jamaica Hospital Medical Center a member of the Medisys Health Network is a 404-bed fully accredited community-based teaching hospital and level I Trauma and Stroke Center.  We are currently seeking an experienced Registered Dietitian for an immediate full-time opportunity.  The selected candidate will provide nutritional guidance and counseling to pre and postoperative bariatric patients through the development, implementation, and monitoring of individualized dietary recommendations pertaining to weight loss surgery, in accordance with nutrition standards of care.

Job Functions:

  • Executes and directs the Nutrition Care Process (assessment, nutrition diagnosis, intervention, monitoring, and evaluation) for specialized bariatric surgery ambulatory care setting; is accountable for the provision of safe and reliable care and services and completion of the documentation in accordance with the individual and statutory scope, regulatory standards and facility policies, protocols and practice guidelines, including clinical privileges.
  • Keeps informed of current Bariatric research, including but not limited to the ASMBS Position Statement on Preoperative Patient Optimization before Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery and ASMBS Integrated Health Nutritional Guidelines for the Surgical Weight Loss Patient
  • Participates in continuing education and/or other appropriate activities to maintain current certification

 

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RD/RDN) by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR)
  • NYS Certified Dietitian-Nutritionist 
  • Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills
  • Specialized knowledge, experience, and training relevant to obesity and weight loss surgery are highly preferred.
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