**Job Description** **Make a difference every single day!** At Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital, we are dedicated to going above and beyond for our patients, their families, and the community, while maintaining a strong customer-centric approach. We actively seek individuals who embody excellence, courtesy, teamwork, respect, communication, and enthusiasm to become part of our team. If you are eager for fulfilling career opportunities that offer growth potential, we welcome you to join us at Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital! **$5,000 Sign on Bonus for External Hires** The **Clinical Nutrition Manager** provides leadership, management, and monitoring of all clinical aspects of the department's programs and nutrition services, including clinical competency of nutrition programs, patient safety, compliance with California Board of regulations, and quality improvement. The clinical nutrition manager oversees the clinical content development, updating, and maintenance of collaborative practice agreements, protocols, and training of existing and new food therapy management programs. In addition, the clinical nutrition manager is responsible for coordinating and directing all activities of the nutrition staff in the provision of safe, cost-effective and clinically appropriate medication and nutrition therapies. **What you’ll be doing in this role:** Provides leadership and support in the maintenance of nutrition services to ensure clinical services meet the requirements and needs of the physicians and patient population. Assures compliance with MDRH programs policies and procedures. Assesses daily schedules of staff to ensure efficiency, access and department needs are met, oversight for colleague time away, overtime work, and policies/procedures are followed. Supports clinical, quality and financial initiatives through the provision of nutrition services in programs promoting cost-effective, clinically appropriate, high-quality care, patient satisfaction. Establishes goals for the department and develops tactics to meet those goals, in collaboration with the Executive Director. Leads process improvement and quality initiatives and evaluate operational efficiency and efficacy data for Nutrition Services. Revises strategies as changes in condition/response occur. Provides drug information and education to healthcare providers, staff, and patients/caregivers, including Drug Safety Alerting to physicians, other departments, patients. Identifies need for and implements comprehensive assessment consistent with policy; directs the nutritional assessment process in conjunction with the interdisciplinary team. Collects pertinent data and interprets appropriately. Collaborates with patient/family/significant other where appropriate in the assessment process; facilitates their active participation in establishing nutrition related goals and objectives. Evaluates the patient’s nutritional related education needs; provides education and documents as appropriate in the medical record. Documents various systems (VST, MR, WEB/VS), makes for good follow-up care by other staff (next RD/DTR to follow). Keeps updated on and uses evidence based practice guidelines/measures for appropriate value(s) for control or improvement of the disease or conditions as defined and supported in the literature. Determines patient centered outcomes that are clear, concise, observable and measurable, during the initial assessment and on follow up and documents consistently in the plan of care; oversees and mentors staff in this regard giving constructive and timely feedback when warranted. Responds promptly to the patient’s need for education, need for change in orders, or any other circumstance that requires change for demonstration of the best outcome. Refers patients to appropriate resources in the community as needed. Collaborates with other colleagues and health care professionals in expediting orders that lead to the best practice outcomes for the individual patient, this includes attendance at patient care conferences, rounds, etc. where care can be discussed and orders quickly obtained for required changes. Plans, develops facilitates and evaluates clinical nutrition care within the section. Performs audits and utilizes operational data to improve efficiency and quality of medical nutrition therapy. Collaborate with culinary team to develop and maintain patient menus that adhere to regulatory compliance and ensure patient satisfaction. Oversight on software optimization. Support and education for diet clerks and culinary team. Maintain open dialog with kitchen and clinical team. Other duties as assigned. **Qualifications** **Education:** Bachelor's Degree, minimum. Master's Degree, preferred. **Licenses/Certifications:** Certification as a Registered Dietitian by the Commission on Dietetic Registration, required. Certification such as CNSD, CSP, CDE, preferred. Membership in the American Dietetic Association, preferred. **Experience:** Three (3) years of experience in clinical nutrition, minimum. Management/supervisor experience, highly desired **About Us** Cedars-Sinai is a leader in providing high-quality healthcare encompassing primary care, specialized medicine and research. Since 1902, Cedars-Sinai has evolved to meet the needs of one of the most diverse regions in the nation, setting standards in quality and innovative patient care, research, teaching and community service. Today, Cedars- Sinai is known for its national leadership in transforming healthcare for the benefit of patients. Cedars-Sinai impacts the future of healthcare by developing new approaches to treatment and educating tomorrow's health professionals. Additionally, Cedars-Sinai demonstrates a commitment to the community through programs that improve the health of its most vulnerable residents. **About the Team** Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital is a nonprofit community hospital committed to serving the needs of the surrounding coastal and westside communities. In addition to general acute medical services and 24/7 emergency care, the hospital offers expertise in specialty areas including spine, weight loss and orthopaedics. Choose this if you want to work in a growing community focused hospital where every staff member feels like family. **Req ID** : HRC1563939B **Working Title** : Clinical Nutrition Manager (Registered Dietitian) - Marina del Rey Hospital ($5,000 Sign on Bonus) **Department** : Clinical Nutrition **Business Entity** : Cedars-Sinai Marina Hospital **Job Category** : Clinical Operations **Job Specialty** : Nutrition **Overtime Status** : EXEMPT **Primary Shift** : Day **Shift Duration** : 8 hour **Base Pay** : $82929.60 - $136864 Cedars-Sinai is an EEO employer. Cedars-Sinai does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of the race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics or any genetic information), marital status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age (40 or older), military and/or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal or state law.