Senior Dietitian - Dialysis

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Facility: 7th & Thayer Dial & Trnplt
Location: Bismarck, ND
Address: 209 N 7th St, Bismarck, ND 58501, USA
Shift: 8 Hours - Day Shifts
Job Schedule: Full time
Weekly Hours: 40.00
Salary Range: $30.50 - $44.00
Pay Info: $10,000 sign on bonus with 2-year commitment, or $15,000 sign-on with a three-year commitment!

Department Details

Sanford Health is seeking a Senior Dietitian to join our multidisciplinary team serving both our Outpatient Dialysis Center and Transplant Program. This unique role provides the opportunity to make a lasting impact on patients across the kidney care continuum, from dialysis to transplant readiness and post-transplant success.

The Senior Dietitian will serve as a nutrition expert, supporting patients and their families through complex dietary needs, educating staff, and collaborating with physicians, nurses, social workers, and other healthcare professionals to ensure high-quality, patient-centered care.

Responsibilities

Provide individualized nutrition assessments, education, and counseling for patients receiving dialysis and for those undergoing pre- and post-transplant evaluation.

Develop, monitor, and adjust nutrition care plans in alignment with CMS ESRD guidelines and transplant program standards.

Collaborate closely with nephrologists, transplant surgeons, nurses, and interdisciplinary team members to optimize patient outcomes.

Lead patient education initiatives, including group classes, written materials, and in-unit teaching.

Serve as a resource and mentor for dietitians and staff within the dialysis and transplant programs.

Participate in QAPI (Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement) activities, regulatory compliance, and data reporting requirements.

Promote health literacy, empowerment, and improved quality of life for patients navigating dialysis and transplant journeys.

Why Join Us?

Opportunity to practice at the top of your profession across two specialized programs.

Be part of a supportive, innovative team committed to quality, safety, and patient-centered care.

Access to Sanford's enterprise-wide resources and professional development opportunities.

Make a meaningful difference in the lives of patients and families managing end-stage renal disease and transplantation.

Job Summary

Plans, develops, and provides diet interventions, medical nutrition therapy, nutrition care and preventive counseling to individuals and groups in all areas of primary and specialty patient/resident care, acute care, skilled nursing, out-patient, and/or community settings. Evaluates treatments or procedures for effectiveness using an evidence-based approach. Works on nutrition care protocols for the assigned area and acts as leader for the health care team in the implementation of the nutrition therapies. Identifies nutritional intervention methods within own specialty. Educates on diet according to disease state, medical condition and health risk. Incorporates new trends and techniques as necessary to design care plan and update standards of care policy manuals and educational material. Assists in tailoring clinical education and associated materials for use with clients/patients/residents, families and caregivers. Performs quality control and maintains a high standard in relation to infection control mechanisms for safety.

Optimizes nutritional status by providing medical nutrition therapy to clients/patients/residents with nutrition risk. This includes determination of nutritional status through nutritional assessment, individualized care plans, provider order recommendations and implementation of nutrition therapy (including verbal orders/order writing, diet modification, nutrition support, oral nutrition supplements, vitamin/mineral supplements, etc.), education and counseling for disease and nutrition risk management, and evaluation of outcomes of medical nutrition therapy interventions. Additionally includes: optimization of self-management education and skills in the care of clients/patients/residents with chronic conditions. Provides nutrition therapy and monitors nutritional care of clients/patients/residents of all ages including neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric. Ability to recognize, evaluate, and provide for nutritional needs based on cultural, ethnic, and religious beliefs. This includes the responsibility to develop, coordinate and conduct educational activities for individuals with illnesses/diseases associated with nutrition, and to their families. Provides leadership, guidance and acts as a resource to peers. Serves as a resource to other disciplines and community agencies as appropriate. Coordinate, plan, and participate in community activities regarding medical nutrition therapy according to quality standards. Aware and conscious of individual's insurance coverage and reimbursement circumstances, and participates in clinical performance improvement activities, including research that tests new treatments or procedures for clinical evidence of outcomes.

Qualifications

Minimum of a bachelor's degree in dietetics or food and nutrition through an Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND) accredited program. For graduates after January 1, 2024, a master's degree designation will be required by ACEND.

Clinical nutrition experience through an approved coordinated undergraduate program or successful completion of post graduate internship required. Five (5) years experience as a clinical dietitian required.

Currently holds Registered Dietitian (RD) license within the applicable state(s). Registered by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) required. Possesses and maintains advanced certification from recognized entity such as: the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR), the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN), the national Certification Board for Diabetes Care and Education (CBDCE).

Certification should support primary area of practice and be supported by leadership.

Benefits

Sanford Health offers an attractive benefits package for qualifying full-time and part-time employees. Depending on eligibility, a variety of benefits include health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, work/life balance benefits, and a generous time off package to maintain a healthy home-work balance. For more information about Total Rewards, visit .

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Sanford Health has a Drug Free Workplace Policy. An accepted offer will require a drug screen and pre-employment background screening as a condition of employment.

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Job Function: Allied Health
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