Registered Dietician – Weight Management & Wellness
Are you an experienced Registered Dietician with a passion for providing comprehensive, high quality nutritional counseling to help patients achieve their health and weight management goals? Join our team as a Registered Dietician in our Weight Management and Wellness practice and make a profound impact on the health and wellness of the patients in our communities.
About Speare Memorial Hospital
Speare Memorial Hospital is a 25-bed critical access hospital serving dozens of communities in the Lakes Region. We are passionately committed to providing exceptional, local care to our friends, families, neighbors, and communities at large.
Mission: To work together to serve the needs of our patients and community.
Vision: A community where all can achieve optimal health.
Values: Kindness, Collaboration, Patient & Family-Centered, Safety, Excellence, Efficiency, and Professionalism.
What You’ll Do:
- Provide comprehensive nutrition assessment, evidence-based medical nutrition therapy, and counsel clients on a highly effective treatment plan post-bariatric surgery and for patients in the non-surgical weight management program.
- Meet frequently with patients: post-op bariatric surgery with appointments focused on dietary education and behavior modification, as well as laboratory result review of micronutrient deficiencies
- Meet frequently with medication assisted weight loss patients to analyze their food intake, provide encouragement, guidance, and focus on dietary modifications to meet their weight loss goals
- Perform medical nutrition therapy (nutrition assessment, evaluation, and counseling) based on individual client needs and concerns. Promote client empowerment and accountability. Provide meal planning as necessary
- Provide education on behavioral modifications, discuss dietary supplementation, and effectively communicate/coordinate with the medical weight management provider, and ancillary staff of the non-surgical weight management program on patient care
- Analyze patients’ health status, goals, and dietary restrictions, track clients’ dietary intake and progress and educate patients on how to maintain a balanced diet
- Demonstrate proficiency with intuitive eating principles and apply them in situations when clients demonstrate disordered eating behaviors
Maintain professional credentials and/or continuing education hours required for the position and for professional and personal growth
What We’re Looking For:
Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics
- Registered Dietician status with the Commission on Dietetic Registration
- 1 to 3 years of experience as an out-patient Dietician
- Registered Dietician and Licensed Dietician in the State of NH
- Knowledge of food science, nutrition, food service, medicine, and human pathology
- Ability to integrate food and nutrition with other disciplines in the practice setting
- Knowledge and skill in providing systematic nutrition care, including screening, assessment, planning, intervention, evaluation and documentation
- Ability to promote effective professional relationships in the practice of nutrition, dietetics, healthcare and community service
Ability to work independently with minimal direct supervision
Preferred:
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Experience working in a surgical and non-surgical weight management program
Why Join Speare Memorial Hospital?
- Community Connection: Be part of an organization deeply invested in local health and wellness.
- Collaborative Culture: Work alongside dedicated professionals who genuinely care about their work and each other.
Professional Growth: Opportunities for continuing education and career development.
Our Commitment
Speare Memorial Hospital is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that a diverse workforce strengthens our ability to serve our equally diverse community.
Join us in our mission to provide compassionate, high-quality healthcare to our community.
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