Nutritionist Locum

Education

• BSc Food, Nutrition & Dietetics
  

Job Experience

• Three (3) years’ experiences
  

Membership

• Current membership with relevant body
  

Key Competencies – Skills/ Knowledge/ Aptitude

• Dietary counseling
  
• Preparation of therapeutic diets for critical and general patients
  
• Food service, preparation, and portion control
  
• Customer care skills
  

• 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 provide nutritional counselling.
  
• 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 health care 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 develop new menus for different vulnerable groups in the hospital.
  
• Preparing departmental reports.
  
• Any other duties as may be assigned from time to time.