Clinical Dietitian

Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences has an opportunity for a highly motivated and organized Clinical Dietitian to join the Eating Disorder Unit. Responsibilities include planning and implementing therapeutic and special diets for adolescents with complex eating disorders and mental illness, providing group-based nutrition programs for patients, providing guidance to staff, and completing feeding assessments as part of the Dysphasia Management Team. There will be significant focus on providing self-management care to patients with metabolic disturbance in the context of serious mental illness. Some travel and work on weekends or evenings required

**Requirements**:

- The position requires knowledge of clinical nutrition acquired through a degree in Nutrition from an accredited university and registration with Dieticians of Canada and the College of Dieticians of Ontario.
- Certification as a Diabetic Educator (CDE) would be an asset.
- Ability to plan and coordinate work activities.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Preferred knowledge and experience with the initiation and maintenance of enteral feeds
- Preferred knowledge and experience with Diabetes within the adolescent population
- Preferred knowledge in the “Health at Every Size Approach”
- Preferred knowledge in working within an intuitive eating model
- Preferred knowledge about eating from a developmental perspective from birth to adult hood
- Preferred knowledge about the feeding relationship between parent (caregiver) and child
- Ability and willingness to eat some meals with the patients and other team members
- Ability to work collaboratively in a family therapy based context
- Demonstrated working knowledge/experience with computers
- Excellent documentation skills
- Evidence of strong professional boundaries
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and within an inter-professional team environment
- CPR-HCP is required

**Contract
- 8 months