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

• Senior Dietitian (Tengah General and Community Hospital)

  National University Health System · Singapore, Singapore

• Dietitian

  National University Hospital · Singapore, Singapore