About City of Hope
City of Hope, an innovative biomedical research, treatment and educational institution with over 6000 employees, is dedicated to the prevention and cure of cancer and other life-threatening diseases and guided by a compassionate, patient-centered philosophy.
Founded in 1913 and headquartered in Duarte, California, City of Hope is a remarkable non-profit institution, where compassion and advanced care go hand-in-hand with excellence in clinical and scientific research. City of Hope is a National Cancer Institute designated Comprehensive Cancer Center and a founding member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, an alliance of the nation's leading cancer centers that develops and institutes standards of care for cancer treatment.
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Position Summary
Designs and implements appropriate plan of nutritional care for patients at nutrition risk. Provides on-going nutritional care and monitors patient progress toward nutrition goals. Provides nutrition counseling and follow-up. Serves as a resource and provides educational sessions to staff, other health care professionals and the community on current nutrition topics. He or she is responsible for assessing educational needs of patients/staff; planning and implementing staff development activities; evaluating the effectiveness of those activities for patient/ staff.
"Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist or Certified Diabetes Educator® (CDCES or CDE ®) is a health professional who possesses comprehensive knowledge of and experience in diabetes prevention, prediabetes, and diabetes management. The CDCES or CDE ® educates, supports, and advocates for people affected by diabetes, addressing the stages of diabetes throughout the lifespan. The CDCES or CDE ® promotes self-management to achieve individualized behavioral and treatment goals that reduce risks and optimize health outcomes". Defined by the Certification Board for Diabetes Care and Education.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Provides services that are accurate, reliable, courteous and timely.
- Delivers care that is consistent with professional practice standards and the mission and values of City of Hope.
- Demonstrates competence appropriate to their role and function in age-specific care and nutrition management and diabetes self-management education.
- Delivers quality care consistent with the scope of practice of the discipline.
- Provides timely, comprehensive and complete education/teaching to patients and families and documentation of progress towards achievement of outcomes.
- Delivers care for a defined group of patients using effective delegation, supervision and decision-making skills.
- Provides timely, evidence-based, and appropriate education to medical staff, other health care professionals and the community.
- Ensures that all professional and regulatory standards are met and maintained.
- Effectively communicates with all customers/team members to meet organizational goals and customer service expectations.
- Maintains current knowledge, skills and competencies through involvement in professional continuing education activities.
- Promotes the efficient and effective utilization of resources.
- Demonstrates performance improvement activities to promote continuous improvement in care delivery.
- Demonstrates assimilation of core organizational values within own performance.
- May participate in research activities related to the field of nutrition and diabetes.
- May assist in the preparation of manuals, guides and other materials contributing to improving clinical performance, updating staff instruction and the maintenance of patient care services.
- Conducts well planned, organized, relevant and clinically oriented programs in response to needs.
- Coordinates continuing education workshops.
- May plan orientation program to meet individual learning needs: develops objectives for each instructional program.
Minimum Education:
- Bachelor's Degree with four years recent experience or Master's degree with two years of experience as a clinical dietitian.
- 3+ years recent experience as a clinical dietitian.
- Registered Dietitian;
- For Endocrinology position, Certification as a Diabetes Educator
- For pediatric service, CCS Panel provider or complete application within 60 days of hire
- Nutrition.
- Board Certification as a Specialist in Oncology Nutrition, Diabetes Educator or Nutrition Support Clinician."
- Full Time
- Days
- To protect the health of patients and staff and to comply with new State of California mandates, City of Hope staff are required to show proof of full vaccination by September 30, 2021. Compliance is a condition of employment.
- Posting Date: Oct 15, 2021
- Job Field: Allied Health
- Employee Status: Regular
- Shift: Day Job