Registered Dietitian

About the Role:

The Registered Dietitian will be responsible for all nutrition related aspects of care, and will work closely with family members to Equip them with the skills needed to nutritionally restore their child. Equip is a “virtual clinic”, which means that care is delivered remotely through our telehealth platform. The Registered Dietitian is responsible for consulting in a collaborative fashion with the Equip treatment team to provide evidence-based care for families undergoing eating disorder treatment for their child (via Equip’s family-based treatment approach).

Responsibilities:

• Assist patients and families in helping the patient transform their maladaptive eating patterns into a healthy relationship with food through provision of ongoing support.

• Develop and implement individualized treatment plans to facilitate patients' progress based upon patient’s unique needs. This is accomplished through regular meetings with families via telehealth, which will include an initial nutrition assessment, prescription of a meal plan (utilizing Equip’s feeding philosophy and meal planning approach) and assessment of target weight ranges.

• Guide process of exposure to fear/challenge foods.

• Communicate patient's meal plan, and any other special nutrition related concerns clearly to all team members, and provide education around how to alleviate or resolve nutrition related concerns.

• Echo treatment team’s directives in interactions with families (presents as a united front).

• Assist with discharge planning.

• Update treatment plans weekly with patient’s progress, treatment goals, nutrition related assignments or directives, nutrition related concerns.

• Reassess nutritional needs on an ongoing basis and communicates recommendations to treatment team (and families).

• Deliver evidence-based nutrition education geared toward challenging irrational thoughts and beliefs around food/nutrition, weight and shape that fuel the eating disorder behaviors.

• Establish a therapeutic relationship with families, including rapport building, appropriate boundary setting, and a working alliance with team and family toward treatment goals.

• Thorough documentation within Equip’s electronic medical record in accordance with Equip’s policies and procedures.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree or college and course work accredited or approved by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND).

• Licensed RDN required, and eating disorder experience preferred (also prefer some exposure/experience to family based eating disorder treatment approaches, but not required).

• Strong skills in communication and collaboration with diverse teams.

• Experience working on interdisciplinary teams.

• Organized and results-driven.

• Ability to understand and balance business needs and clinical priorities.

• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment, subject to rapid change and innovation.

• Ability to work Pacific Hours.

Working Hours:

Equip allows Patient Scheduling, Monday - Friday, between 8am-8pm in the working timezone.

• Ability to provide 30 hours a week of availability for direct patient care, including new patients and follow-up sessions.

• Ability to commit to a minimum of 16 hours of direct patient care after 2 pm in your working time zone throughout the week.

• Ability to commit to working until 8pm two evenings per week (you choose which evenings).

• Ability to attend mandatory meetings (i.e Group Supervision, Treatment Huddles, Labs/All Hands, Individual Supervision, etc.).

• PST Hours.