Registered Dietitian-Eating Disorders (Remote-Oregon)

Responsibilities

• Assist patients and families in helping the patient transform their maladaptive eating patterns into a healthy relationship with food through provision of ongoing support.
• Develop and implement individualized treatment plans to facilitate patients' progress based upon patient's unique needs. This is accomplished through regular meetings with families via telehealth, which will include an initial nutrition assessment, prescription of a meal plan (utilizing Equip's feeding philosophy and meal planning approach) and assessment of target weight ranges.
• Guide process of exposure to fear/challenge foods.
• Communicate patient's meal plan, and any other special nutrition related concerns clearly to all team members, and provide education around how to alleviate or resolve nutrition related concerns.
• Echo treatment team's directives in interactions with families (presents as a united front).
• Assist with discharge planning.
• Update treatment plans weekly with patient's progress, treatment goals, nutrition related assignments or directives, nutrition related concerns.
• Reassess nutritional needs on an ongoing basis and communicates recommendations to treatment team (and families).
• Deliver evidence-based nutrition education geared toward challenging irrational thoughts and beliefs around food/nutrition, weight and shape that fuel the eating disorder behaviors.
• Establish a therapeutic relationship with families, including rapport building, appropriate boundary setting, and a working alliance with team and family toward treatment goals.
• Thorough documentation within Equip's electronic medical record in accordance with Equip's policies and procedures.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Must currently reside in Oregon State and hold an active Oregon State Registered Dietitian license.
• Minimum of a bachelor's degree or college and course work accredited or approved by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND).
• Licensed RDN required, and eating disorder experience preferred (also prefer some exposure/experience to family based eating disorder treatment approaches, but not required).
• Strong skills in communication and collaboration with diverse teams.
• Experience working on interdisciplinary teams.
• Organized and results-driven.
• Ability to understand and balance business needs and clinical priorities.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment, subject to rapid change and innovation.

Working Hours

Equip supports patient scheduling Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–8:00 PM in the working/covered time zone. Full Time. Ability to provide 30 hours a week of availability for direct patient care, including new patients and follow-up sessions. Ability to commit to a minimum of 16 hours of direct patient care after 2 pm in your working time zone throughout the week. Ability to commit to working until 7pm two evenings per week (you choose which evenings). Ability to attend mandatory meetings (i.e Group Supervision, Treatment Huddles, Labs/All Hands, Individual Supervision, etc.). Pacific Time Zone Hours.

Physical Demands

Work is performed 100% from home with no requirement to travel. This is a stationary position that requires the ability to operate standard office equipment and keyboards as well as to talk or hear by telephone. Sit or stand as needed.