Dietitian

Main Duties And Responsibilities SPECIFIC

Clinical Care Quality of work

• Maintain consistent standards of care
• Conduct nutritional assessment through analysis of relevant data and clinical reasoning
• Formulate an appropriate nutrition diagnosis
• Develop and implement the appropriate medical nutrition therapy and nutritional care plan
• Set treatment goals in collaboration with patient
• Monitor and review patient’s progress and adjust care plan accordingly
• Provide patient education and caregiver training
• Work with caregivers and multi-disciplinary team
• Documentation of nutrition care process in accordance with the guidelines determined by the department and the hospital
• Adhere to organizational and departmental guidelines
• Practice according to the clinical standards set by the department and hospital
• All expected clinical competency must be achieved according to the competency checklist
• Maintain and manage workload
• Achieve target caseload and clinical key achievement areas
• Plan and complete work effectively within time frame
• Prioritize workload appropriately
• Assist in quality improvement activities/projects (relating to improvement in clinical care)
• Adhere to patient quality service according to standards by the hospital and department
• Actively participate as a member for quality improvement projects at hospital/department level
• Maintain consistent CEP standards
• Maintain professional communication with patients, caregivers, doctors, nurses and other allied healthcare workers
• Uphold professional ethics
• Safe care
• Maintain zero harm to patient
• Follows infection control practices as determined by the hospital

Education

• Supervision and mentoring
• Assist in the co-supervision/co-training of staff
• Assist in the supervision of 1st – 2nd year student
• Supervise polytechnic student project
• Co-placement educator for university student placements
• Delivery of education
• Deliver in-service training and education to intra-department colleagues
• Prepare training material and conduct in-house and public forums as required
• Present in continual educational in-services and forums
• Deliver education to patients/public
• Participate and contribute in voluntary and community organizations in the provision of nutritional activities
• Contribute to media responses
• Assist to conduct professional workshops and seminars
• Planning and development
• Assist to organize, coordinate and provide continuing education to colleagues
• Assist to organise health related education event or community event
• Assist to develop resource materials
• Assist to review and update curriculum exam papers for student

Research

• Update knowledge in practice
• Apply and demonstrate evidence based practice
• Critically evaluate research literature and share with others
• Develop research
• Participate and support research data collection/design and analysis
• Create and communicate evidence
• Assist to develop abstracts/posters/oral presentations

Management/Leadership

• Mange services and resources
• Assist to manage services and resources to achieve department/hospital targets
• Coordinate and assist to manage food and beverage services
• Implement new service programmes under the supervision of senior dietitian to meet patients’ needs
• Collaboration and communication
• Assist to lead department workgroup to deliver and improve service and care
• Participate in department project
• Set strategic direction
• Assist to manage information and data to identify gaps and potential areas of change
• Assist to evaluate and present findings to department to influence change

GENERAL

• Actively involved in hospital and department’s initiatives
• Any other relevant duties as assigned by the supervisor / HOD