Job Purpose:

Responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, and advising on appropriate therapeutic      feeds, specific to the patients’ ailment, needs and requirements.

Duties and Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

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