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Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation

Hospital is Canada’s largest pediatric rehabilitation hospital, and a top 40 Canadian research hospital. Serving over 8,500 families annually in both inpatient and outpatient programs and services, Holland Bloorview is renowned for its expertise in partnering with clients and families to provide exceptional care and is the only organization to ever achieve 100 per cent in three successive quality surveys by Accreditation Canada.

Holland Bloorview’s vision is to support the most meaningful and healthy futures for all children, youth and families. We are an academic hospital, fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. All clinical staff are expected to contribute to the academic agenda through one or more of the following activities: supervising students, teaching, academic service, scholarship and research.

Holland Bloorview has won numerous awards including Greater Toronto's Top Employers, Canada's Top Employers for Young People and Canada's Most Admired Corporate Cultures. We offer an inspiring, inclusive, innovative, and collaborative work environment with competitive compensation and benefit packages and programs that support ongoing learning and professional growth.

The Position

This is an exciting opportunity for an innovative and experienced Registered Dietitian (RD) to join two interdisciplinary clinics, collaborating with a number of different clinicians to assess, make appropriate recommendations and implement treatment plans.

Neurodevelopmental Restrictive Eating clinic (0.4FTE)



- supports the needs of children with neurodevelopmental disorders that also present with ARFID and/or severe restricted food intake.

Feeding and Swallowing clinic (0.2FTE) - assess and manage children and youth with feeding and swallowing safety concerns.

Key Responsibilities

- Conducts nutritional assessments for clients in the programs.
- Implements and evaluates nutritional care plan of referred clients with the overall goal of maintaining and promoting optimal nutritional status
- Provides nutritional counseling to clients and caregivers
- Work collaboratively on an interdisciplinary team to complete assessments and consultations.
- Responsive to the changing needs of clients and families and demonstrate flexibility to adapt treatment goals and approach as necessary in collaboration with other clinical team members
- Contribute to the implementation of the program
- Laises with community care providers to support nutrition care goals and provides education to build capacity with community providers as needed.
- Works in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team to develop educational information for clients, parents, and other service providers about nutritional care or topics as appropriate
- Keep up to date with current dietetic science and practice




- Electronic documentation of all clinical assessments, interventions and related care occurrences. Order entry for enteral feed clients
- Comply with workload measurement statistic entry
- Contributes to innovative approaches for care to clients with neurodevelopmental disorders
- Contributes to the design, implementation and evaluation of continuous quality improvement initiatives.
- Supervises Dietetic students and volunteers, as required
- Research experience an asset.

Qualifications

- Current registration and membership of the College of Dietitians of Ontario
- Current registration with Dietitians of Canada an asset
- Pediatric experience and experience working with children with neurodevelopmental disorders is preferred
- Minimum 2 years of experience within multidisciplinary feeding and swallowing program strongly preferred
- Paediatric experience with physical, developmental, and neurodevelopmental disabilities strongly preferred
- Ability to set priorities and manage a busy workload while meeting required deadlines
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in an interdisciplinary team environment as well as independently.
- Demonstrated problem-solving and critical thinking skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Able to use computer software such as MS Office applications, email and web applications
- Demonstrated commitment to maintain and upgrade skills and knowledge through career development and evidence-based practice.
- Competence of ESHA food analysis program an asset

📌 Registered Dietitian ? Neurodevelopment Restrictive Eating and Feeding & Swallowing (Toronto)
🏢 Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
📍 Toronto