Clinical Dietitian Jobs in Missouri

INTRODUCTION

This employee is responsible for responding to, as well as initiating incoming and outgoing potential customer inquiries, while using company resources, policies, and procedures to provide complete, accurate data.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

- Responsible for sales to hospitals, oncology, rehabilitation centers, and other referral sources with enteral patient needs, and for all aspects of enteral nutrition care for the home tube fed patient and other medical nutrition related activities
- Uses appropriate technologies and follows processes in accordance with company standards to ensure patient and physician contact is handled with accuracy and operational effectiveness

JOB FUNCTIONS

- Identifies and develops new referral sources
+ Responsible for obtaining a predetermined number of enteral setups from new referral sources each month
- Establishes referral source and customer contact by initiating follow-up outbound calls and receiving inbound return calls
- Promotes products and facilitates referral source needs to utilize company's products or services by adequately assessing referral source qualification, thoroughly explaining product/services benefits, and assisting with facilitating physician communication as necessary
- Stays up to date on current formulary
- Conducts in-service for referral sources, educating them in the use and application of enteral equipment
- Recognizes and respects patient rights during the provision of care or services and conducts business relationships with patients and the public in an ethical manner
- Responsible for a designated territory performing sales activities, tracking daily sales activity, promoting enteral services to physicians, hospitals, home health, and cancer centers, as well as maintaining market information in sales tracking platform
- Contributes to departmental objectives by accomplishing required contact and sales results, with ability to track and report progress of sales results
- Facilitates sales process by communicating/sharing information with appropriate internal and external contacts
- Records customer information and maintains database by obtaining, entering, and verifying required data
- Provides customer follow-up as required
- Educates patients in relation to their enteral feeding to facilitate safe and effective use and desired care, treatment, and service outcomes
- Responsible for maintaining and managing a minimum monthly patient admits/census
- Promotes safe, effective patient and organizational environments and feeding equipment use
- Obtains, utilizes, and updates patient information in a confidential and secure manner for utilization in patient care applications
- Coordinates delivery and pickup of such items as enteral formula, feeding pump(s), IV poles, related feeding supplies to patients' homes or places of business
- Listens to and resolves service complaints appropriate to scope of practice
- Issues sales promotion materials to customers
- Issues or obtains customer signature on admission, pickup, or delivery
- Monitors patients' responses to the care or services provided, the actions or interventions taken, and the outcome of the care or service provided
- Participates in ongoing education, including in-services, training, and other activities, to maintain and improve individual competence
- Provides enteral nutrition recommendations to providers based on clinical evaluation
- Stays up to date on current enteral nutrition practice guidelines
- Analyzes nutritionally comparable formulas

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Education

- Bachelor's Degree Dietetics or Nutrition from an accredited institution, Required
- Registered Dietitian from the Commission on Dietetic Registration

Work Experience

- One year in home healthcare, hospital, clinic, or nursing home, Preferred
- Dietetics, Nutrition, Home Health, or Nursing, Preferred

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

- Read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals
- Calculate figures and amounts such as commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume
- Solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
- Interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form
- Word processing, spreadsheets, and e-mail communications
- Must have excellent communication
- English-oral and written
- Medical industry beneficial
- Type at least 25-30 words per minute

Licenses and Certifications

- Licensed as a Dietitian for geographic areas where employee manages patients