Nutritionist

Key Responsibilities

• Evaluating and assessing nutritional needs, diet restrictions, and current health plans, and screening patients for nutritional risk in accordance with established department protocols and standards.
• Developing and implementing dietary care plans and providing nutritional counseling.
• Consulting with physicians and healthcare personnel to determine nutritional needs and diet restrictions of patients.
• Planning and initiating medical nutrition therapy to patients if indicated by patient requirements and clinical protocol.
• Communicating individual nutritional care plans to other healthcare providers as a member of a healthcare team.
• Calculating and writing enteral and parenteral feeds for patients according to patients' nutritional requirements.
• Advising patients and their families on nutritional principles, dietary plans and diet modifications, and food selection and preparation.
• Monitoring food service to ensure conformance to prescribed diets and patients' nutritional needs.
• Coordinating recipe development and standardization and developing new menus for different vulnerable groups in the hospital.
• Preparing departmental reports.
• Performing any other duties as may be assigned from time to time.

Qualifications & Requirements

• BSc in Food, Nutrition & Dietetics.
• Expertise in dietary counseling.
• Experience in the preparation of therapeutic diets.
• Minimum of 2 years of working experience in clinical nutrition.
• Must be registered with the Kenya Nutritionists and Dieticians Institute (KNDI).