Location: New York,NY, USA
About NYC Health + Hospitals
NYC Health + Hospitals/Gouverneur is a 295-bed Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) with a 5-Star CMS Quality Rating located in Manhattans Lower East Side neighborhood. Gouverneur offers enhanced, cutting edge healthcare services in a state-of-the-art space. It provides 24-hour care for individuals in need of sub-acute care, long-term care or hospice care which include services like physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech and vocational rehabilitation. Gouverneur is an academic affiliate of NYU School of Medicine and Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine.
From more than 600 Nursing Homes, Gouverneur ranks #7 in Newsweeks Best Nursing Homes in New York2024; and also received high-performance ratings for Long-term Care and Short-term Rehabilitation from U.S. News & World Reports Best Nursing Homes in America 2024.
At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.
Job Description
Under administrative direction, organizes, plans and directs the operation of the dietary service for an agency. In addition to performing the duties of lower Assignment Levels at a more difficult and responsible level, performs the following:
1. Organizes, plans, and directs functions of the dietary service. Plans Dietitians schedules ensuring adequate coverage. Ensures their full compliance with prescribed clinical standards.
2. Plans staff orientation and in-service educational programs. Develops and coordinates ongoing quality assurance program. Implements performance indicators and pursues corrective remedies, to ensure strict adherence to established standards.
3. Ensures that the agency diet manual is prepared, revised and updated.
4. Plans and conducts staff meetings, to discuss issues pertinent to the agencys clinical program.
5. Assists the Director in the review, planning, and updating of menus for the general population, as well as for therapeutic and religious diets.
6. In the absence of the director, assumes full responsibility.
7. Plans and/or supervises staff orientation, in-service educational programs, and client or family education. May develop and coordinate ongoing quality assurance program.
8. Reviews and modifies menu plans submitted by subordinate dietary staff.
9. Supervises the selection and inventory control of foods, supplies and equipment.
10. Conducts staff conferences and participates in the implementation of new and/or revised policies, procedures and regulations that are consistent with dietary practices established by the facility, State Health Code and/or other regulatory agencies.
11. Participates in the evaluation of the dietary service and preparation of audit by regulatory agencies.
12. Directs the issuance of food and supplies to various dietary units.
13. Evaluates and approves performance evaluations of subordinate staff.
14. .Maintains records and writes reports
Minimum Qualifications
Baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university, with a major in Dietetics or Foods and Nutrition in a program approved by the American Dietetic Association (ADA); or,
Registration or eligibility for registration by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) as a Registered Dietitian or New York State Certification as a Dietitian-Nutritionist.
Registration by the CDR as a Registered Dietitian or New York State Certification as a Dietitian-Nutritionist.
Under the Medicare and Medicaid Programs, Reform of Requirements for Long-Term Care Facilities, as outlined in Section 483.60 of Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations all newly-hired Dietitians, Levels I-IV assigned to a Post-Acute Care (Long-Term Care) facility, are required to have New York State Certification, issued by the New York State Education Department (NYSED), as a Dietitian-Nutritionist at the time of hire. Dietitians, Levels I-IV hired prior to November 28, 2016, assigned to a Post-Acute Care (Long-Term Care) facility are required to obtain New York State Certification, issued by the NYSED, as a Dietitian-Nutritionist on or before November 28, 2021.
This positional is PROVISIONAL
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NYC Health and Hospitals offers a competitive benefits package that includes: