Senior Dietitian

We're Hiring: Senior Dietitian

Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience Level: Senior

Work Arrangement: Fully Remote

About Us

We are a globally focused healthcare and wellness organization committed to supporting better nutrition, healthy lifestyles, and improved patient and client outcomes across diverse populations.

Our multidisciplinary teams collaborate across Dietetics, Clinical Services, Nursing, Medicine, Pharmacy, Fitness, Wellness, Food Services, Operations, and Care Management to provide evidence-based and personalized nutrition support.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Dietitian to provide advanced nutrition assessment, dietary counseling, clinical nutrition support, care planning, education, and professional guidance to patients, clients, and internal teams.

The ideal candidate will combine strong clinical nutrition expertise with excellent communication, assessment, counseling, documentation, and multidisciplinary collaboration skills. The role will support individualized nutrition interventions while maintaining professional, ethical, clinical, and regulatory standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive nutrition assessments based on medical history, dietary intake, lifestyle, clinical information, and individual needs.
• Review relevant laboratory results, medications, anthropometric measurements, clinical records, and other available information.
• Identify nutrition-related risks, deficiencies, dietary concerns, and areas requiring intervention.
• Develop individualized nutrition care plans based on assessed needs, clinical objectives, preferences, and lifestyle factors.
• Provide evidence-based dietary counseling and nutrition education to patients and clients.
• Support patients with chronic conditions, metabolic disorders, weight-management needs, gastrointestinal conditions, cardiovascular risk factors, and other nutrition-related requirements within professional scope.
• Provide nutrition support for specialized populations and clinical conditions according to qualifications and applicable protocols.
• Develop practical meal plans and dietary recommendations tailored to individual requirements.
• Consider cultural preferences, dietary traditions, allergies, intolerances, food availability, lifestyle, and financial considerations when developing nutrition plans.
• Provide guidance on portion control, meal timing, food selection, hydration, label reading, and healthy eating practices.
• Educate patients and families about nutrition-related aspects of disease prevention and management.
• Support weight-management and healthy-lifestyle programs using evidence-based approaches.
• Monitor patient progress and adjust nutrition interventions according to changing needs and outcomes.
• Conduct follow-up consultations and evaluate adherence, barriers, progress, and patient-reported outcomes.
• Establish measurable nutrition goals and track progress toward agreed objectives.
• Identify barriers to dietary adherence and develop practical strategies to improve long-term behavior change.
• Provide motivational counseling and support patients in developing sustainable nutrition habits.
• Collaborate with physicians, nurses, pharmacists, psychologists, physiotherapists, fitness professionals, and other healthcare providers.
• Participate in multidisciplinary case reviews and contribute nutrition expertise to patient-care planning.
• Communicate relevant nutrition findings and recommendations clearly to healthcare teams.
• Support transitions of care by providing appropriate nutrition guidance and follow-up recommendations.
• Maintain accurate and comprehensive clinical nutrition documentation.
• Record assessments, diagnoses or nutrition problems, interventions, progress notes, follow-up plans, and outcomes as required.
• Ensure documentation is completed accurately and within established timelines.
• Maintain patient confidentiality and comply with applicable privacy and information-management requirements.
• Follow professional standards, clinical protocols, organizational policies, and applicable healthcare regulations.
• Apply evidence-based nutrition guidelines and current clinical recommendations to patient care.
• Review emerging nutrition research, clinical guidelines, and scientific literature relevant to practice.
• Translate relevant scientific evidence into practical nutrition recommendations.
• Evaluate nutrition information, products, supplements, diets, and health claims critically before incorporating them into professional recommendations.
• Provide appropriate nutrition guidance regarding dietary supplements within professional scope and applicable policies.
• Identify potential food-drug, nutrient-drug, allergy, intolerance, or dietary safety considerations and coordinate with appropriate healthcare professionals.
• Support nutrition screening and identification of patients requiring specialist dietetic intervention.
• Develop nutrition education materials, meal-planning resources, handouts, presentations, and digital content.
• Deliver individual and group nutrition education sessions.
• Conduct workshops, seminars, webinars, and community nutrition programs where appropriate.
• Provide nutrition education to healthcare professionals, caregivers, families, and support staff.
• Support wellness, preventive-health, corporate-health, and lifestyle-management initiatives where applicable.
• Contribute to public nutrition and health-promotion programs within the organization's scope.
• Support nutrition-related quality-improvement and clinical-audit activities.
• Establish and monitor nutrition-care quality indicators and patient outcomes.
• Analyze patient outcomes, service utilization, satisfaction data, and nutrition-program performance.
• Identify opportunities to improve nutrition services, care pathways, patient education, and clinical processes.
• Participate in clinical research, outcomes studies, audits, and evidence-generation activities where applicable.
• Support development and review of nutrition protocols, clinical pathways, SOPs, and professional standards.
• Collaborate with Food Services on therapeutic diets, menu planning, food labeling, allergen management, and nutrition standards where applicable.
• Review menus and dietary offerings to ensure alignment with relevant nutrition requirements.
• Provide professional input into food-service programs, wellness packages, and nutrition-focused products or services.
• Mentor junior dietitians, nutritionists, interns, and other team members where applicable.
• Support professional development, case discussions, peer review, and clinical knowledge-sharing.
• Provide guidance on complex nutrition cases within professional competence and scope.
• Escalate cases requiring medical, psychological, pharmaceutical, or other specialist intervention.
• Participate in multidisciplinary meetings, clinical reviews, and service-development initiatives.
• Maintain professional relationships with patients, families, healthcare providers, external partners, and community organizations.
• Prepare regular reports covering caseloads, consultations, outcomes, education activities, quality indicators, and service performance.
• Provide management with recommendations based on clinical outcomes, patient feedback, emerging evidence, and service trends.

Key Performance Indicators

• Nutrition assessment completion rate
• Nutrition care-plan completion
• Follow-up completion rate
• Patient adherence rate
• Nutrition-goal achievement
• Clinical outcome improvement
• Weight-management outcome
• Patient satisfaction
• Patient engagement
• Nutrition counseling completion
• Patient retention
• Follow-up attendance
• Dietary adherence improvement
• Nutrition-risk identification rate
• Nutrition intervention effectiveness
• Clinical documentation accuracy
• Documentation timeliness
• Care-plan review completion
• Multidisciplinary referral response
• Referral completion rate
• Patient education participation
• Group education attendance
• Education-program satisfaction
• Nutrition knowledge improvement
• Clinical protocol compliance
• Professional standards compliance
• Patient privacy compliance
• Clinical audit performance
• Quality-improvement completion
• Evidence-based practice adoption
• Clinical research participation
• Service response time
• Caseload management
• Consultation productivity
• Patient communication quality
• Clinical escalation effectiveness
• Food-service compliance
• Therapeutic-diet accuracy
• Allergen-management compliance
• Menu-review completion
• Team training completion
• Junior staff development
• Stakeholder satisfaction

Ideal Candidate

The successful candidate should have strong experience in clinical dietetics, nutrition counseling, medical nutrition therapy, wellness nutrition, hospital dietetics, community nutrition, or specialized nutrition services , preferably within hospitals, clinics, healthcare organizations, wellness centers, rehabilitation facilities, or integrated care environments.

The candidate should demonstrate:

• Relevant degree or professional qualification in Dietetics, Nutrition, or a closely related healthcare discipline.
• Appropriate professional registration, licensing, or certification required for the relevant jurisdiction.
• Proven experience providing professional dietetic assessment and nutrition counseling.
• Strong knowledge of clinical nutrition and medical nutrition therapy.
• Experience developing individualized nutrition care plans.
• Strong understanding of nutrition assessment, dietary analysis, and clinical documentation.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary healthcare teams.
• Excellent patient counseling and behavior-change communication skills.
• Strong ability to communicate complex nutrition information clearly and practically.
• Experience supporting chronic disease management and preventive nutrition programs.
• Strong understanding of evidence-based nutrition practice.
• Ability to interpret relevant laboratory, clinical, and dietary information within professional scope.
• Strong knowledge of dietary requirements, food allergies, intolerances, and therapeutic diets.
• Experience developing meal plans and practical dietary recommendations.