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Registered Dietitian – Eating Disorder Partial Hospitalization Program

Full-Time | Benefits Eligible | Immediate Opening
The Healing Connection, Inc.
1320 University Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607

Program: Eating Disorder Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP)
Reports To: Clinical Director / Medical Leadership
Schedule: Full-Time, Days
Supervisory Responsibilities: Oversee chef

Join a Mission-Driven Team Making a Difference

For 17 years, The Healing Connection, a nonprofit licensed by the New York State Office of Mental Health (NYS OMH), has supported individuals and families in our community. As we continue to expand our continuum of specialized eating disorder care, we are looking for passionate professionals who want to grow with us and make a meaningful difference.

The Healing Connection is seeking a compassionate and experienced Registered Dietitian (RD/RDN) to join our Eating Disorder Partial Hospitalization Program.

This is an exciting opportunity for a dietitian who believes deeply in the role nutrition plays in eating disorder recovery and who enjoys working intensively with patients and families as part of a highly collaborative multidisciplinary team.

Our Registered Dietitians are not simply providing nutrition education. They are essential members of the treatment team and play an active role in nutrition rehabilitation, individualized meal planning, therapeutic meal support, exposure work, patient and family education, treatment planning, and preparation for successful transition to a lower level of care.

The Registered Dietitian works alongside therapists, psychiatric providers, medical providers, nurses, other dietitians, and program leadership to provide coordinated and individualized eating disorder treatment.

If you are passionate about helping individuals rebuild their relationship with food and their bodies while working within a collaborative, mission-driven nonprofit organization, we would love to hear from you.

About The Healing Connection

The Healing Connection's mission is to provide high-quality, accessible, and compassionate care to individuals and families affected by eating disorders and related mental health concerns.

Our continuum of specialized treatment includes:

• Outpatient (OP)

• Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)

• Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP)

• Adolescent Residential Treatment

Our culture is grounded in:

• Respect and Humility

• Integrity

• Collaboration

• Clinical Excellence

• Compassionate Care

• Continuous Learning and Growth

Our multidisciplinary team includes therapists, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, medical providers, nurses, registered dietitians, and support staff who work together to help patients and families achieve lasting recovery.

Position Summary

The Registered Dietitian provides specialized nutrition assessment, intervention, education, and therapeutic support to patients receiving treatment within The Healing Connection's Eating Disorder Partial Hospitalization Program.

The RD is an integral member of the patient's multidisciplinary treatment team and is responsible for creating menus, supporting food preparation, assessing nutritional needs, developing individualized nutrition plans, monitoring nutrition rehabilitation and progress, providing individual nutrition counseling, supporting therapeutic meals and snacks, educating patients and families, and contributing to treatment and discharge planning.

The RD works closely with medical providers to integrate relevant medical information, laboratory findings, vital signs, medications, nutrition status, and other clinical considerations into the patient's overall nutrition treatment plan.

The RD also collaborates closely with therapists and psychiatric providers to ensure that nutrition interventions are integrated with the patient's behavioral health treatment.

The goal of nutrition treatment is not simply meal-plan adherence. Our dietitians help patients work toward greater nutritional stability, flexibility with food, reduced eating-disorder behaviors, increased confidence, and the skills necessary to continue recovery beyond PHP.

Essential Responsibilities

Nutrition Assessment & Individualized Treatment Planning

• Conduct comprehensive nutrition assessments for patients entering PHP.

• Evaluate nutrition history, current intake, eating patterns, food-related behaviors, dietary restrictions, food beliefs, allergies, gastrointestinal concerns, and other factors relevant to treatment.

• Review relevant medical information and collaborate with medical providers regarding patient health and nutritional status.

• Develop individualized nutrition and meal plans based on each patient's clinical, medical, developmental, and nutritional needs.

• Establish appropriate nutrition goals as part of the overall multidisciplinary treatment plan.

• Monitor nutritional progress throughout treatment.

• Adjust nutrition plans and interventions based on patient progress, clinical presentation, medical recommendations, and treatment goals.

• Identify barriers to nutrition rehabilitation and collaborate with the treatment team on appropriate interventions.

• Participate actively in multidisciplinary treatment planning and treatment-plan reviews.

Individual Nutrition Counseling

• Provide scheduled individual nutrition counseling to assigned PHP patients.

• Help patients understand their individualized nutrition goals and treatment recommendations.

• Provide evidence-informed nutrition education appropriate to the patient's stage of recovery.

• Help patients challenge eating-disorder beliefs and behaviors related to food and nutrition within the RD's scope of practice.

• Support increasing flexibility, variety, adequacy, and consistency in nutrition.

• Address appropriate food-related fears and avoidance patterns as part of the multidisciplinary treatment approach.

• Reinforce recovery-focused language and behaviors.

• Collaborate with the patient's therapist when nutrition concerns intersect with broader behavioral health treatment goals.

• Adjust nutrition interventions based on treatment progress and readiness.

Therapeutic Meals & Meal Support

Meals and snacks are an essential component of PHP treatment.

The Registered Dietitian will:

• Participate in therapeutic meals and snacks as part of the multidisciplinary treatment team.

• Provide appropriate meal support and nutrition coaching.

• Observe eating-disorder behaviors and identify barriers impacting nutrition rehabilitation.

• Help patients utilize strategies for navigating difficult meals and food-related challenges.

• Maintain a calm, consistent, compassionate, and recovery-oriented approach during meals.

• Collaborate with clinical staff regarding significant observations occurring during meals and snacks.

• Help maintain consistency among treatment-team members regarding meal-support practices.

• Participate in appropriate food exposures, challenges, and therapeutic nutrition interventions.

• Support patients in developing skills they can increasingly apply outside of the structured PHP environment.

Family & Caregiver Support

Family and caregiver involvement can be an important component of eating disorder recovery, particularly for adolescent patients.

The Registered Dietitian will:

• Provide nutrition education to parents, caregivers, and other appropriate support persons.

• Help families understand nutritional rehabilitation and the role of consistent nutrition in recovery.

• Educate families regarding individualized meal recommendations and expectations.

• Help caregivers prepare to support nutrition needs outside of the structured PHP environment.

• Collaborate closely with therapists regarding family treatment goals.

• Participate in family meetings or family education as clinically appropriate.

• Support caregivers in developing confidence around appropriate meal support.

• Help identify and address barriers that could interfere with successful nutrition support at home.

• Prepare patients and families for increasing independence and eventual transition to lower levels of care.

Nutrition Groups & Therapeutic Programming

• Facilitate nutrition education and therapeutic nutrition groups as assigned.

• Develop engaging and developmentally appropriate nutrition programming.

• Provide education on topics relevant to eating-disorder recovery.

• Support patients in developing greater flexibility and confidence around food.

• Collaborate with therapists and other team members on interdisciplinary programming.

• Participate in appropriate food exposures and experiential nutrition activities.

• Assist in evaluating and refining nutrition groups based on patient and program needs.

Multidisciplinary Collaboration

Eating disorder treatment requires close integration of nutritional, medical, psychiatric, and behavioral health care.

The Registered Dietitian will work collaboratively with:

• Medical providers

• Psychiatrists

• Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners

• Therapists

• Nurses

• Other Registered Dietitians

• Clinical leadership

• Intake Clinicians

• Program support staff

Responsibilities include:

• Participate in regular multidisciplinary treatment-team meetings.

• Present relevant nutrition findings, progress, barriers, and recommendations.

• Collaborate with medical providers regarding nutritional status and relevant medical concerns.

• Communicate significant changes in nutritional presentation to appropriate team members.

• Collaborate with therapists regarding eating-disorder behaviors, exposures, treatment goals, and family needs.

• Coordinate with psychiatric providers when medications or psychiatric symptoms affect appetite, intake, eating behavior, or nutrition treatment.

• Contribute actively to level-of-care, continued-stay, and discharge discussions.

• Maintain open, professional, and collaborative communication across disciplines.

Medical & Nutrition Collaboration

• Work closely with The Healing Connection's medical providers to support safe and effective nutrition rehabilitation.

• Review and incorporate relevant medical findings into nutrition treatment planning.

• Communicate nutritional concerns that may have medical implications.

• Collaborate regarding patients requiring increased medical or nutritional monitoring.

• Incorporate provider recommendations into individualized nutrition plans as appropriate.

• Recognize findings that warrant additional medical evaluation and communicate concerns promptly to the medical team.

• Work within professional scope while maintaining strong interdisciplinary collaboration.

Transition & Discharge Planning

Nutrition discharge planning begins throughout the course of PHP treatment.

The Registered Dietitian will:

• Continually assess progress toward nutrition goals and readiness for transition.

• Prepare patients for increased independence with nutrition as clinically appropriate.

• Help patients and families understand nutrition recommendations for the next phase of recovery.

• Develop appropriate nutrition recommendations for discharge or transition to a lower level of care.

• Coordinate with outpatient or community dietitians as authorized and clinically appropriate.

• Communicate relevant nutrition information to continuing providers to support continuity of care.

• Participate in multidisciplinary discharge planning.

• Help identify potential nutrition-related barriers to successful transition and work with the patient, family, and team to address them.

Program Development & Quality Improvement

As The Healing Connection continues to grow its continuum of eating disorder services, the Registered Dietitian will have opportunities to contribute to the ongoing development of our nutrition programming.

Responsibilities may include:

• Help develop and refine nutrition programming within PHP.

• Participate in development of nutrition education materials, groups, meal-support practices, and patient/family resources.

• Identify trends, barriers, and opportunities to improve nutrition services.

• Participate in quality-improvement initiatives.

• Contribute nutrition expertise to organizational policies and clinical workflows.

• Participate in continuing education and professional development.

• Help foster a collaborative culture of learning and clinical excellence.

Documentation & Compliance

• Complete nutrition assessments and clinical documentation accurately and within required timeframes.

• Document individual nutrition sessions, meal plans, treatment interventions, progress, goals, family contacts, and other required services.

• Complete treatment-plan and treatment-plan-review documentation as required.

• Maintain documentation consistent with professional, regulatory, payer, accreditation, and organizational standards.

• Maintain patient confidentiality.

• Participate in utilization review, quality improvement, and risk-management activities as appropriate.

• Maintain professional credentials and continuing education requirements.

Required Qualifications

Education

• Master's Degree in Nutrition, Dietetics, or related field consistent with professional credentialing requirements.

Credentials

Required:

• Registered Dietitian / Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RD/RDN)

• Current registration in good standing through the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR)

• New York State certification/credentialing appropriate to the role, as required

Experience

Required

• Professional clinical dietetics experience.

• Experience conducting nutrition assessments.

• Experience providing individualized nutrition counseling.

• Experience developing and adjusting nutrition plans.

• Strong ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary healthcare team.

Strongly Preferred

• Eating disorder treatment experience

• PHP, residential, inpatient, IOP, or another higher-level-of-care setting

• Experience working with adolescents and adults

• Experience providing therapeutic meal support

• Experience providing family and caregiver nutrition education

• Experience facilitating nutrition groups

• Experience with food exposures and eating-disorder nutrition rehabilitation

• Experience working collaboratively with medical and behavioral health providers

Skills & Competencies

Successful candidates will demonstrate:

• Strong knowledge of nutrition rehabilitation in eating disorder treatment

• Strong clinical assessment and nutrition counseling skills

• Ability to establish meaningful therapeutic relationships with patients

• Strong family-engagement and education skills

• Comfort providing meal support and working directly with challenging eating-disorder behaviors

• Ability to collaborate effectively within a multidisciplinary team

• Excellent verbal and written communication

• Strong clinical judgment

• Strong organization and time-management skills

• Ability to balance individual sessions, meal support, groups, treatment planning, documentation, and team responsibilities

• Compassionate, nonjudgmental, and recovery-oriented approach

• Strong professional boundaries

• Commitment to ongoing learning and evidence-informed practice

• Proficiency with electronic health records and clinical documentation systems

Benefits

The Healing Connection offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the professional, personal, and financial well-being of our staff, including:

• Employer-paid Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

• Employer-paid Life Insurance

• Professional Liability Coverage

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Generous Paid Time Off

• Paid one-hour lunch breaks

• 403(b) retirement plan with employer match

• Continuing education and professional development support

• Annual training stipend

• Specialized eating-disorder professional development opportunities

• Free on-site parking

• Supportive multidisciplinary team environment

• Opportunities to contribute to program development and organizational growth

Why Join The Healing Connection?

At The Healing Connection, dietitians are core members of the treatment team, not ancillary providers.

You will work closely with patients, families, therapists, medical providers, psychiatric providers, nurses, and other dietitians to help people move toward sustainable recovery.

You will also join an established nonprofit at an exciting time. After 17 years of supporting individuals and families in our community, The Healing Connection is continuing to expand access to specialized eating disorder treatment and strengthen our continuum of care.

If you are an RD who believes in compassionate, collaborative, patient-centered eating disorder treatment and wants to work somewhere your expertise is genuinely valued, we would love to hear from you.