Director Clinical Nutrition-Food Service Therapeutics-MSW/MSM-Full Time/Days

Description

Director-Clinical Nutrition-Mount Sinai West/ Mount Sinai Morningside

Plans, organizes, and directs the operations of the Clinical Nutrition Services including implementing high standards of clinical nutrition practices and ensuring compliance to the standards of all regulatory agencies.

Responsibilities

• Implement standards of clinical nutrition practice and ensure adherence to establish policies and procedures. Ensure compliance to the accreditation standards from all regulatory agencies.
• Formulate and facilitate the implementation of clinical nutrition policies as they pertain to current clinical practice.
• Recruit professional clinical nutrition staff. Plan orientation protocol for the new clinical nutrition staff on the professional standards and expectations, established policies and procedures and the operational role of the Department of Clinical Nutrition.
• Develop and conduct the department CQI program. Identify practices and standards in need of correction and/or upgrading, design corrective action and implement corrective action plan.
• Conduct performance appraisals and competency reviews.
• Prepare department operating and capital budget and submit for administrative approval. Maintain departmental function within allowed budgetary guidelines and coordinate reimbursement activities.
• Ensure safe work environment and sanitary conditions are met in all areas of clinical nutrition.
• Plan and develop educational programs for the clinical nutrition staff to enhance learning, improve skills and develop new skills as projected. Organize lectures and seminars based on identified needs of the staff.
• Plan and develop educational programs on nutrition for the medical center staff, community and medical students.
• Plan and coordinate development and revisions of policies and procedures, educational material, diet manuals and other instructional materials.
• Coordinate clinical nutrition training affiliations, direct and precept the learning experience of the dietetic interns.
• Coordinates the activities of the Nutrition Care Committee of the Medical Board and work as the staff liaison for the Chairman of the committee.
• Maintain all personnel files, financial records, time and attendance records, credentialing information and all other pertinent files according to regulatory agencies.
  
  

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Must possess a Bachelor of Science/Arts degree in Food and Nutrition from an accredited institution and have completed a qualifying experience in addition to passing the registration exam administered by the Commission on Dietetic Registration of the American Dietetic Association.
• Knowledge of nutrition assessment and plan of care for patients generally required through five years related experience beyond the dietetic internship including experience as a clinical dietitian and/or clinical manager.
• Name: Registered Dietitian (RD) Issuing Agency: Commission on Dietetic Registration (CRD) of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
  
  

Non-Bargaining Unit, BPT - Food Service Therapeutics - WST, Mount Sinai West

Employer Description

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.
  
  

At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.

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Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”

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Compensation

The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $95450 - $143175 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.