Dietitian (#116-24)

**Job Description**:
Are you a registered Dietitian seeking a rewarding career that cares for others, in a professional practice that cares for you? You’re looking in the right place.

As a **Dietitian (Status: Temporary, Full-Time from November 4, 2024 to November 14, 2025; Location: Sudbury)**, you are responsible for the provision of dietetic and nutritional services to patients in order to optimize nutritional intake, promote overall health and well-being, and individualized food plans to meet specific nutritional, dietary, and/or functional needs.

Whether you work in our office, in the community, or a health care facility - you will play a lead role in providing connected, accessible, patient-centered care - and be supported by our collaborative team that includes over 9,000 regulated health care and other professionals.

As a valued team member, your mission will be to help our patients be healthier at home, while you benefit from our supports for professional growth, personal wellness, and work-life balance.

**What will you do?**
- Respond to referrals from Care Coordinators to properly administer nutritional and dietetic services to patients.
- Assess patients to identify their nutritional needs and determine patient-centered treatment goals.
- Provide treatment/nutritional care program and develop resources to address patient dietary needs and work towards achieving therapeutic goals.
- Oversee patient progress and adjust treatment programs when needed, to ensure nutrition goals are addressed.
- Educate and counsel patients, their families, caregivers, and/or SDMs, regarding nutritional conditions/diseases, patient issues/concerns, and dietary strategies to improve function, compensate for difficulties, and promote nutritional health.
- Manage service deliveries in conjunction with the Care Coordinator, their families, caregivers, and/or SDMs using all available forms of communication.
- Link patients with other in-house services or outside organizations.
- Balance patient needs and choices with available resources, ensuring patients’ values and preferences are respected.

Accurately document and chart patient’s assessment results, goals, treatment plans, and interventions.

**What must you have?**
- Registered Dietitian in good standing with the College of Dietitians of Ontario (CDO).
- Relevant experience providing nutrition and dietetic services in a community/health care environment.
- Comprehensive knowledge of dietetic services, practice methods, professional skills, nutrition principles and strategies.
- Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills to manage service delivery in conjunction with Care Coordinators, patients, their family members/caregivers, and other health care professionals.
- Good understanding of the roles of other health care professionals and complementary therapies.
- Knowledge of funding agencies available to assist patients in accessing needed support services and other community resources, treatment centers, and organizations.
- Practical knowledge and understanding of pertinent legislation.
- Comprehensive knowledge of the standards of practice and professional guidelines set forth by CDO.
- Ability to prioritize professional duties and manage caseload in a time efficient manner.
- Ability to accurately complete required documentation, reports, forms, and recommendations.
- Effective listening, observation, and facilitation skills.
- Ability to communicate information effectively through a variety of means including meetings, reports, letters, and presentations.
- Must have valid driver’s license and access to a vehicle.
- Advanced oral and written proficiency in English is essential.
- We have a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy. As a condition of employment, all employees are required to submit proof of COVID-19 vaccination status prior to start date.

**What would give you the edge?**
- Experience working with diverse patient groups, e.g., multicultural, homeless, palliative, acquired brain injury (ABI), mental health, geriatrics, pediatrics
- Experience with management of wound care, post operative GI surgeries, motivational interviewing, diabetes, oncology, gut health, food insecurity, and chronic disease management
- Case management experience or recent related community experience
- Ability to speak French or another second language

**What do we offer?**

**We know wellness is supported with work-life balance. **In an inclusive culture committed to support your passion for continuous learning, growth and innovation, we offer:

- Attractive comprehensive compensation packages and benefits
- Hourly wage of $43.29 to $50.00 as per the OPSEU Collective Agreement
- Valuable development opportunities
- Membership in a world class defined benefit pension plan

**Who are we?**:
**We are Ontario Health atHome, ready to serve every person in Ontario.** We partner with patients and caregivers, family physicians, hospitals, long-term care and retirement h