Job Objective/Purpose
To evaluate and assess nutritional needs, diet restrictions and nutrition health plans in accordance with established protocols and standards.
Key Responsibilities
To conduct daily review of inpatients ‘to evaluate and assess their nutrition status.
Screen patients for nutritional risk and initiate appropriate intervention.
Plan and initiate medical nutrition therapy for patients if indicated by patient requirements and clinical protocol.
Consult with physicians and other caregivers to determine nutritional needs and diet restrictions of patient or client.
Communicate individual nutritional care plans to other health care providers as a member of a care team.
Coordinate recipe development and standardization and develop new menus for different vulnerable groups in the hospital. 7. Monitor food service to ensure conformance to prescribed diets and patient’s nutritional needs.
Educate and counsel patients and families on nutritional issues and maintain updated and necessary patient education materials and nutrition references.
Advise food service managers and organizations on sanitation, safety procedures, menu development.
Interpret physician diet orders and modify diet according to diet patterns and patient preferences.
Instruct patients in diet principles and restrictions per physician diet orders and document pertinent clinical information.
Advise on substitutions if the patient is unable to eat the meal provided, per diet restrictions.
Advise and with the support of the food service, plan between-meal nourishments for patients as necessary.
Complete nutritional assessments on patients receiving tube feeding or parenteral nutrition and compute nutritional value of constituents when necessary.
Complete diet histories for nutritional assessment of patients
Evaluate appropriateness of diet order for diagnosis and recommend diet order changes as indicated.
Prepare departmental reports.
Any other duty as assigned by the supervisor in line with the job description.
Personal Specifications
BSc Food, Nutrition & Dietetics
Higher Diploma in Food, Nutrition & Dietetics
Licensed by the Kenya Nutritionists and Dieticians Institute
2 years’ experience.
Customer Focus.
Result Oriented.
Application documents (CV and Certificates) must be emailed to [email protected] with the job position you are applying for as the subject of the email
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