Job Type: Dietitian
FTE: 0.6 Part Time

Responsibilities

- The Dietitian provides therapeutic services to individual residents working in with the Support Services Manager to ensure food services meet all legislative standards, PPSL policy and resident satisfaction.
- In collaboration with the interdisciplinary care team and the resident and/or family, assesses all residents upon admission and annually to complete a documented, in-depth nutritional assessment, based on the resident’s needs, abilities and goals.
- Performs swallowing assessments and makes recommendations on diet textures, meal assist techniques and safety precautions.
- Counsels residents and family members on therapeutic diets, and other nutritional concerns.
- Prescribes dietary supplements as appropriate (eg. resident with weight loss, wounds) and monitors their effectiveness and use.




- Responsible for routinely reviewing resident weight data and following up with an in-depth nutritional assessment and plan revision as appropriate.
- Responsible for both the Minimum Data Set (MDS) and the Resident Assessment Protocols (RAPs) as it pertains to nutrition, which includes but is not limited to: care plans, progress notes, assessments, profiles and/or tracking.

Qualifications include:

- Must have a university degree in Food and Nutrition or related field of study.
- Two (2) years recent related experience an asset.
- Experience in a seniors care workplace.

The successful applicant for this job posting must be able to provide satisfactory proof that they have received the COVID-19 vaccination and any required COVID-19 booster vaccination. This requirement shall be waived if the applicant has not received the vaccination due to any legislated protected human rights grounds.

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📌 Silverado Creek - Part Time Dietitian (Calgary)
🏢 parkplaceseniorsliving
📍 Calgary