Employment Opportunities

General Description

Responsibilities & Duties

• Formulates modified diet plans and provides nutrition counseling to clients with therapeutic diet orders.
• Provides Medical Nutrition Therapy to high risk patients identified through patient registers, nutrition screening assessments and staff referrals.
• Provides clinic and community based nutrition and lifestyle change education programs focused on diabetes prevention and self-management.
• Actively participates/facilitates community events focused on health promotion and disease prevention for tribal communities.
• Maintains and updates documentation of nutrition counseling in patient records as needed to meet the nutritional needs of the patient.
• Facilitates delivery of the National Diabetes Prevention Program and maintains all necessary de-identified data required to achieve and maintain CDC recognition as a NDPP provider.
• Prepares, reviews, selects culturally appropriate nutrition education materials.
• Prepare, write and submit monthly news articles to Tribal media publications. Works with other program staff in development of handouts, exhibits, visual aids and brochures for distribution.
• Adheres to professional ethical standards and professional standards of practice.
• Takes reasonable action to inform a client’s physician and any appropriate allied health care provider in cases where a client’s nutritional status indicates a charge in medical status.
• Plans, conducts or participates in and interprets, evaluates and utilizes pertinent current research related to nutritional care.
• Complies with the provisions of the Oklahoma Controlled Substances Act.
• Complies with the applicable state and federal regulations in regard to the security, safety and confidentiality of any health services record they create, maintain, transfer, or destroy whether the record is written, taped, computerized, or stored in any other medium.
• Maintains verifiable records at an institution of facility that has a published records retention policy that is equal to or exceeds the retention required by federal and/or state regulations.
• Practices only within the boundaries of their competence, based on their documented education, training, supervised experience, state and national professional credentials, and appropriate professional experience.
• Maintains knowledge and skills required doe continuing professional competence.
• Maintains the confidentiality of any information received from any person or source about a client, unless authorized in writing by the client or otherwise authorized or required by law or court order.
• Notifies the Oklahoma State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision within thirty (30) days od any change in address, telephone number, and employment and shall supply an updated copy to Absentee Shawnee Tribe Human Resources.
• Renews licenses or certifications and specialty designations before the expiration date.
• Provides Absentee Shawnee Tribe Human Resources with a copy of all licensure, certifications, renewal of licensures and certifications upon receipt thereof.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Education Reuirements and Qualifications

• Must possess a baccalaureate or post-baccalaureate degree received from American colleges or universities which held accreditation, at the time the degree was conferred, from accepted regional educational accrediting associations as reported by the American Association of Collegiate Registrar and Admissions Officers which includes a minimum of 24 semester hours from the fields of human nutrition, food and nutrition, dietetics, or food systems management, or an equivalent major course of study as may be approved by the Board. A substantial equivalent major course of study shall be defined as either:
• A baccalaureate or post-baccalaureate degree including a minimum of 30 semester hours specifically designated to train a person to apply and integrate scientific principles of human nutrition under different health, social cultural, physical, psychological and economic conditions to the proper nourishment, care and education of individuals or groups through the life cycle. Of these 30 semester hours, a minimum of 18 semester hours must be from human nutrition, food and nutrition, dietetics, or food systems management; or
• A baccalaureate or post-baccalaureate degree including a major course of study meeting the minimum academic requirements to qualify for examination by the Commission.
• After meeting the academic requirements persons applying for licensure must be registry eligible with the Commission on Dietetic Registration by having completed ab internship or pre-planned professional experience program approved by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND).
• One year clinical dietetics experience preferred.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual should have proficient knowledge of Spreadsheet software and Word Processing software.
• Must be certified as a National Diabetes Prevention Program Lifestyle Coach or able to obtain certification within 3 months of employment.
• Must have a valid Oklahoma Driver’s License.
• Must be able to pass a background check.

• Must be able to sit, stand, stoop, bend or kneel for long periods of time.
• Sitting or standing or walking for long period of time; occasional bending, squatting, kneeling, stooping; good finger dexterity and feeling; frequent repetitive motions; talking hearing and visual acuity

• Frequent lifting (up to 15 lbs)
• Occasional lifting (up to 30 lbs)