Dietitian III
About NYC Health + Hospitals
NYC Health + Hospitals/Gouverneur is a 295-bed Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) with a 5-Star CMS Quality Rating located in Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood. Gouverneur offers enhanced, cutting edge healthcare services in a state-of-the-art space. It provides 24-hour care for individuals in need of sub-acute care, long-term care or hospice care which include services like physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech and vocational rehabilitation. Gouverneur is an academic affiliate of NYU School of Medicine and Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine.
From more than 600 Nursing Homes, Gouverneur ranks #7 in Newsweek’s Best Nursing Homes in New York2024; and also received high-performance ratings for Long-term Care and Short-term Rehabilitation from U.S. News & World Report’s Best Nursing Homes in America 2024.
At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.
Work Shifts
8:00 A.M – 4:00 P.M
Duties & Responsibilities
Under administrative direction, this position organizes, plans and directs the operation of the dietary service for an agency. Responsibilities include:
- Make nutritional assessments. Interviews clients and/or their families to obtain history of food habits and preferences. Explain diet to clients and/or their families and monitors reaction to diet
- Organize, plans, and directs functions of the dietary service. Plans Dietitians’ schedules ensuring adequate coverage. Ensure their full compliance with prescribed clinical standards.
- Plan staff orientation and in-service educational programs. Develop and coordinate ongoing quality assurance program. Implements performance indicators and pursues corrective remedies, to ensure strict adherence to established standards.
- Ensure that diet manual is prepared, revised and updated.
- Plan and conduct staff meetings, to discuss issues pertinent to the agency’s clinical program.
- Assist the Director in the review, planning, and updating of menus for the general population, as well as for therapeutic and religious diets.
- In the absence of the director, assume full responsibility.
- Plan and/or supervise staff orientation, in-service educational programs, and client or family education. May develop and coordinate ongoing quality assurance program.
- Review and modify menu plans submitted by subordinate dietary staff.
- Supervise the selection and inventory control of foods, supplies and equipment.
- Conduct staff conferences and participates in the implementation of new and/or revised policies, procedures and regulations that are consistent with dietary practices established by the facility, State Health Code and/or other regulatory agencies.
- Participate in the evaluation of the dietary service and preparation of audit by regulatory agencies.
- Direct the issuance of food and supplies to various dietary units.
- Evaluate and approves performance evaluations of subordinate staff.
- Maintain records and writes reports.
- Other duties as assigned
Qualification Requirements:
For appointment to Assignment Levels III
1. Registration by the CDR as a Registered Dietitian or New York State Certification as a Dietitian-Nutritionist.
Special Note for Dietitians assigned to Post-Acute Care (Long-Term Care) facility:
Under the Medicare and Medicaid Programs, Reform of Requirements for Long-Term Care Facilities, as outlined in Section 483.60 of Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations all newly-hired Dietitians, Levels I-IV assigned to a Post-Acute Care (Long-Term Care) facility, are required to have New York State Certification, issued by the New York State Education Department (NYSED), as a Dietitian-Nutritionist at the time of hire. Dietitians, Levels I-IV hired prior to November 28, 2016, assigned to a Post-Acute Care (Long-Term Care) facility are required to obtain New York State Certification, issued by the NYSED, as a Dietitian-Nutritionist on or before November 28, 2021.
Benefits
NYC Health and Hospitals offers a competitive benefits package that includes:
- Comprehensive Health Benefits for employees hired to work 20+ hrs. per week
- Retirement Savings and Pension Plans
- Paid Holidays and Vacation in accordance with employees' Collectively bargained contracts
- Loan Forgiveness Programs for eligible employees
- College tuition discounts and professional development opportunities
- College Savings Program
- Union Benefits for eligible titles
- Multiple employee discounts programs
- Commuter Benefits Programs