Dietitian

Full Time

St. Louis, MO, US

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Job Summary

Monitor food service operations to ensure conformance to nutritional, safety, sanitation and quality standards. Consult with physicians and health care personnel to determine nutritional needs and diet restrictions of patients and will follow-up with patients to ensure adequate understanding of the instructions and for the effectiveness of the Nutrition Therapy

Major Duties:

• Practice conduct that displays respect for all KVC colleagues and community stakeholders regardless of age, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, or veteran status
• Shall provide dietary consultations for clients referred by the physician within a maximum of 2 business days. Communicate with multidisciplinary team as appropriate
• Modify menus to accommodate individual diet restriction and obtain items as needed
• Monitor food service operations to ensure conformance to training, nutritional, safety, sanitation and quality standards 
• Provide quarterly house menu audits  
• Remain appropriately licensed in the State of Kansas and Missouri while employed by KVC
• Coordinate recipe development and standardization and develop new menus for independent food service operations
• If needed, advise clients and their families on nutritional principles, dietary plans and diet modifications, and food selection and preparation
• Programming: Counsel individuals and groups on basic rules of good nutrition, healthy eating habits and nutrition monitoring to improve their quality of life
• Develop policies for food service or nutritional programs to assist in health promotion and disease control 
• Inspect meals served for conformance to prescribed diets and standards of palatability and appearance 
• Work Hospital Leadership to purchase food in accordance with health and safety codes 
• Shall apply for professional staff privileges at the Hospital and become and remain an active member of the professional staff of the Hospital 
• Shall actively participate in the Hospital’s overall client care evaluation program and assist Hospital in the performance of utilization review and cost containment functions 
• Attend DESE trainings, forms, reports as required by DESE for meal reimbursement, etc.
• Work with catering service to ensure meal reimbursement requirements are being met and documentation is complete if applicable to site

Minimum Requirements

Education:

Bachelor's Degree in related field.

Licensure/Certification: 

Missouri, Kansas License and registrations with the CDR.

Valid driver’s license and auto insurance.

Experience:

One to two years of dietary experience.

Preferred Experience/Skills: 

Master’s degree preferred.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, talk, or hear, and taste or smell. The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to sit for intermittent amounts of time. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Benefits & More

Employee benefits and culture fall under the KVC Health Systems umbrella. KVC is a family of private, nonprofit organizations that strengthen families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and help people achieve mental health wellness. Through our broad continuum of care, we are proud to be a national leader in mental health, child welfare, and health and human services transformation.

At KVC, we offer a positive, supportive workplace where each person can do work they love. In fact, we’re so proud of our culture that we see it as our top competitive advantage in the health and human services field. Based on the voice of our employees, KVC has an incredible 83 Work Wellbeing score on Indeed, a rating so high and rare that it places KVC among the top 1% of employers nationally. KVC was also named #15 on Glassdoor’s Best-Led Companies 2025 list, a recognition achieved entirely based on anonymous employee reviews. In addition to being mission-driven, we offer employees an unparalleled level of flexibility, wellbeing, learning, inclusion, recognition, and rewards.