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**This position is eligible for a $7,500 Sign-On Bonus

403B, Health insurance, Paid time off, registration reimbursement, AND or ASPEN membership reimbursement, and much more!

Join the Center for Human Nutrition within the Digestive Disease Institute as a Clinical Dietitian supporting adults with complex acute and critical-care needs. This role combines clinical practice, interdisciplinary collaboration, and evidence-based nutrition care in a setting where dietitians can directly influence recovery, safety, and continuity of care.  This is a great opportunity for a new graduate or an experienced registered dietitian looking for a pathway for clinical experience, professional growth, and opportunities to develop or enhance their skills.

People seek guidance from a Registered Dietitian (RD) for many reasons. Some individuals want to maximize wellness and learn to eat healthier to decrease the risk of chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, or cancer. Others would like to learn more about sports nutrition, maintaining a healthy weight or aging healthfully. No matter what the reason is, Registered Dietitians help develop personal diet plans to help every patient achieve their goals. 

A caregiver in this position will work from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM, with a shared weekend rotation approximately once a month or every five weeks. Weekend coverage includes both Saturday and Sunday, with one day at Marymount Hospital and the other at South Pointe Hospital. Holiday coverage is on-call only.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Provide individualized medical nutrition therapy, education, and counseling to patients.

• Implement nutritional care plans, communicate plans, establish a follow-up system, and maintain documentation.

• Write changes for diet orders, initiate nutrient intake assessments, assess patients for nutritional deficiencies, evaluate fluids and electrolytes, review laboratory and clinical progress notes and inform physicians of their patients’ nutritional status and need for diet changes.

• Create and revise education materials, participate in program development develop, as well as develop, implement, and market services.

• Support the dietetic internship program as a supervised practice rotation preceptor and class instructor, as needed.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:  

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition, Dietetics or a related field 

• Current licensure as a Licensed Dietitian (LD)  

• Active certification as a Registered Dietitian (RD) 

• One year of experience as a Registered Dietitian in Clinical Nutrition OR successful completion of CCF Dietetic Internship Program 
  

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to navigate extensively to provide services to a large number of patients throughout the hospital and manual dexterity sufficient to perform computer entry.
• Must have physical ability to measure and weigh patients.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required. 

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.

Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.

Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility. 

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