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Summary Job Description: Registered Dietitian Full-Time, 1st Shift Outpatient Oncology The Oncology Pathway supports patients throughout the cancer care continuum by coordinating services across diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up care. The department works collaboratively with multidisciplinary clinical teams to ensure timely access to care, evidence-based treatment planning, and a patient-centered experience that promotes quality outcomes and continuity of care. Under limited supervision, provides professional medical nutrition therapy to individuals and groups of all ages and abilities in a variety of outpatient settings. Follows established standards of practice and evidence-based guidelines from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, USDA, American Diabetes Association, and other recognized resources to assess patients and develop, implement, and evaluate individualized nutrition care plans and education. Ensures continuity of care for outpatients requiring medical nutrition therapy while collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality nutrition education and services. Additionally, provides support for outpatient diabetes education services as needed. Job Description: Provide oncology nutrition services across outpatient cancer care settings, including chemotherapy, radiation oncology, and physician offices. Assess patients' nutritional needs, identify risks, and develop individualized Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) plans throughout cancer treatment. Provide nutrition counseling, education, and ongoing support to patients and families. Collaborate with multidisciplinary healthcare teams to coordinate care and improve patient outcomes. Maintain accurate and timely documentation of nutrition assessments, interventions, and patient progress. Participate in tumor boards, oncology committees, and continuing education activities. Develop nutrition education resources and promote oncology nutrition services within the healthcare system and community. Requirements: Bachelor’s Degree 1 year of experience Preferred 3 years Clinical Experience/Oncology Experience Preferred Current registration or registration-eligible with the Commission on Dietetic Registration. Those registration-eligible must become registered within 6 months of date of hire unless extension is granted. Licensed Dietitian in Kentucky or licensed-eligible after receiving CDR registration. Those licensed-eligible must become licensed in KY within 6 months after receiving CDR registration unless extension is granted. Benefits: Health, Vision, Dental and Pet Insurance Life Insurance Short Term and Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance Identity Theft Protection Tuition Reimbursement up to $6,000 annually Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave 5 days of Paid Time Off available upon hire Bereavement Leave (includes pets) PTO Sell Back Program Compassionate Leave Sharing Program (PTO Donation) Employee Support Fund, for employees in need of emergency financial support Retirement with Company Match If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to apply now! Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians. EEO Statement: Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. 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Lexington - 1700 Nicholasville Road
Registered Dietitian – Outpatient Oncology.
FULL TIME