Qualifications & Requirements:

• BSc Food, Nutrition & Dietetics

• Dietary counselling

• Preparation of therapeutic diets

• Minimum of 2 years working experience in clinical nutrition

• Must be registered with KNDI

• Evaluating and assessing nutritional needs, diet restrictions and current health plans and screens patients for nutritional risk in accordance with established department protocols and standards.

• Developing and implementing dietary care plans and provide nutritional counselling.

• Consulting with physicians and health care personnel to determine nutritional needs and diet restriction of patients.

• Planning and initiating medical nutrition therapy to patients if indicated by patient requirements and clinical protocol.

• Communicating individual nutritional care plans to other health care providers as a member of a health care team.

• Calculating and writing enteral and parenteral feeds for patients according to patient’s nutritional requirements.

• Advising patients and their families on nutritional principles, dietary plans and diet modifications, and food selection and preparation.

• Monitoring food service to ensure conformance to prescribed diets and patient’s nutritional needs.

• Coordinating recipe development and standardization and develop new menus for different vulnerable groups in the hospital.

• Preparing departmental reports.

• Any other duties as may be assigned from time to time.