Dietitian II - Registered Dietitian - (Hybrid / Flex Schedule) Pueblo

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Dietitian II - Registered Dietitian - (Hybrid / Flex Schedule) Pueblo

Salary

$67,932.00 - $74,724.00 Annually

Location

Pueblo, CO

Job Type

Full Time

Job Number

IIB 06115 04/25/2024

Department

Colorado Department of Human Services

Division

OBH - CMHIP

Opening Date

05/02/2024

Closing Date

Continuous

FLSA

Determined by Position

Primary Physical Work Address

Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo 1600 W 24th Ave Pueblo, CO

FLSA Status

Exempt; position is not eligible for overtime compensation.

Department Contact Information

Isaac.Phelps@state.co.us

Type of Announcement

A residency waiver has been granted for this announcement. Applications will be considered from residents and non-residents of Colorado.

How To Apply

Please submit an online application for this position at https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/colorado. Reach out to the Department Contact to apply using a paper application, including any supplemental questions. Failure to submit a complete and timely application may result in the rejection of your application. Applicants are responsible for ensuring that application materials are received by the appropriate Human Resources office before the closing date and time listed.

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Department Information

A residency waiver has been granted for this announcement. Applications will be considered from residents and non-residents of Colorado.

Please note: This recruitment may be used to fill multiple vacancies.

Most State of Colorado employees are eligible for a great benefit package! Please see the Supplemental Information section below for details! (https://dhr.colorado.gov/state-employees/state-of-colorado-employee-benefits)

The Nutrition Services Department

The purpose of the Nutrition Services Department is to provide quality food service and medical nutrition therapy to more than 1500 clients in a mental health care facility and the Colorado Department of Corrections. With over 100 employees, the department strives, within available resources, to provide adequate nutrition to clients based on medical, spiritual, ethnic, cultural, and mental health needs.

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Description of Job

Registered Dietitians fulfill a didactic role in providing clinical dietetic services and managing the food service subsystems/resources in execution of the department's mission as stated above. The purpose of this position is to provide medical nutrition therapy to patients in a high and/or medium security setting. Position to assist with administration of CBORD nutrition analysis software; recommends menu changes based on current food costs, food availability and patient requests. This position works in conjunction with nutrition's production and administration to ensure patients obtain appropriate meals.

Job Duties

• Provide clinical nutrition services to patients in a high and/or medium security setting.

• Assesses nutrition status of patients by systematically collecting, recording, and interpreting relevant data from patients, hospital clinicians, caregivers, and other individuals and groups. Utilizes food/nutrition related history; anthropometric measurements; biochemical data, medical tests and procedures; nutrition-focused physical findings; and patient history to determine factors affecting nutrition and health status, and compares data to criteria, relevant norms, and standards for interpretation and decision making. Organizes and categorizes the data in a meaningful framework that links nutrition assessment parameters with nutrition diagnoses, and determines when a problem requires consultation with or referral to another health care professional.

• Finds patterns and relationships among the nutrition assessment data to identify a nutrition problem that can be resolved or improved through medical nutrition therapy. Prioritizes the relative importance of problems for patient safety. Utilizes standard nutrition diagnostic terminology to write a PES (problem, etiology, and signs/symptom) statement that describes the problem, its root cause, and the assessment data that provide evidence for the nutrition diagnosis.

• Formulates a nutrition intervention plan based on the nutrition diagnosis and its etiology that prioritizes diagnoses based on urgency, impact, and available resources including Standards of Practice (SOPs), up-to-date medical nutrition therapy practices/evidence-based nutrition practice guidelines; coordinates care with other healthcare professionals; and considers patients’ values and expected outcomes.

• Identifies patient outcomes relevant to the nutrition diagnosis and intervention plans and goals to determine the amount of progress made and whether goals/expected outcomes are being met. Monitor and measures outcomes by selecting nutrition care indicators that are relevant to the nutrition diagnosis and its etiology and signs/symptoms, as well as to the nutrition intervention, medical diagnosis, and quality management goals for nutrition, patient population, and disease state and/or severity.

• Documents relevant, accurate, and timely information performed in the Nutrition Care Process in the patient’s electronic medical record. Communicates and influences treatment interventions determined by the healthcare team through interdisciplinary team meetings, rounds, and nutrition-related in-services; serves as a subject matter expert and resource of nutrition. Works collaboratively with foodservice staff and other RD/RDNs to assure conformance with and continuation of nutrition care plan.

• This position develops education outlines and participates in patient and/or staff education. Provides training to nutrition services and other hospital staff as needed. Develops and updates all educational material used for classes and patient education. Assists in developing and reviewing clinical nutrition protocols, policies and procedures for use within the hospital.

• Other duties as assigned by supervisor or Appointing Authority.

Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights

Schedule:

Although the workplace arrangements for this position are hybrid remote, that is not a guarantee that this position will remain hybrid, and these arrangements may change without prior notification based on busy demands.

Minimum Qualifications

Education:

• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree in Dietetic or Nutrition,

License/Certification:

• Registered as a dietitian with the American Dietetics Association (Please submit required license at time of application).

  AND

Experience:

• One year of dietetics experience or nutrition experience as a licensed dietitian.

Substitutions:

• Additional appropriate experience and will substitute for the degree requirement, on a year-for-year basis.*

• Additional appropriate education will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis.*

  *But neither will substitute for the required license.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency using Power Point, Excel, and Word

• Familiarity with E-mail

• Familiarity with medical nutritional therapy

• Experience in behavior health or eating disorders

• Clinical experience in hospital setting

• Certificate of Servsafe

• Familiarity with CBORD Food Service software system

Conditions of Employment:

• A pre-employment criminal background check will be conducted as part of the selection process as this position is deemed to have direct contact with vulnerable persons. Felony convictions, conviction of crimes of moral turpitude, or convictions of misdemeanors related to job duties may disqualify you from being considered for this position. Should your background check reveal any charges or convictions, it is your responsibility to provide the CDHS Background Unit with an official disposition of any charges.

• Use, Handling, or Exposure to hazardous -- Exposure to cleaning chemicals

• Required Annual Flu Vaccination, unless an authorized exemption is provided.

• May be required to travel to offsite trainings, meetings and conferences.

• Must possess and maintain registration as a registered dietitian

• TB testing

• Former State employees who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu of termination must disclose the information on the application and provide an explanation why the prior termination or resignation should not disqualify the applicant from the current position. Absent extraordinary circumstances, prior disciplinary termination or resignation in lieu of termination will disqualify the applicant from future State employment with CDHS.

APPEAL RIGHTS:

If you receive notice that you have been eliminated from consideration for this position, you may file an appeal with the State Personnel Board or request a review by the State Personnel Director.

An appeal or review must be submitted on the official appeal form, signed by you or your representative. This form must be delivered to the State Personnel Board by email (dpa_state.personnelboard@state.co.us), postmarked in US Mail or hand delivered (1525 Sherman Street, 4th Floor, Denver CO 80203), or faxed (303.866.5038) within ten (10) calendar days from your receipt of notice or acknowledgement of the department’s action.

For more information about the appeals process, the official appeal form, and how to deliver it to the State Personnel Board; go to spb.colorado.gov ; contact the State Personnel Board for assistance at (303) 866-3300; or refer to 4 Colorado Code of Regulations (CCR) 801-1, State Personnel Board Rules and Personnel Director's Administrative Procedures, Chapter 8, Resolution of Appeals and Disputes, at spb.colorado.gov under Rules.

Supplemental Information

How to Apply (https://cdhs.colorado.gov/information-for-job-applicants#how-to-apply)

The Assessment Process

For additional recruiting questions, please contactisaac.phelps@state.co.us

About Us:

If your goal is to build a career that makes a difference, consider joining the dedicated people of the Colorado Department of Human Services (https://www.colorado.gov/cdhs) (CDHS). Our professionals strive to design and deliver high quality human and health services that improve the safety, independence, and well-being of the people of Colorado. In addition to a great location and rewarding and meaningful work, we offer:

• Strong, secure, yet flexible retirement benefits including a PERA Defined Benefit Plan or PERA Defined Contribution Plan www.copera.org plus 401(k) and 457 plans

• Medical and dental health plans

• Employer supplemented Health Savings Account

• Paid life insurance

• Short- and long-term disability coverage

• 11 paid holidays per year plus vacation and sick leave

• BenefitHub state employee discount program

• Employee Wellness program MotivateMe

• Excellent work-life programs, such as flexible schedules, training and more

• Remote work arrangements for eligible positions

  *Some positions may qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. For more

  information, go to https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/dhr/student-loan-forgiveness-programs .

  Our Values:

  We believe in a people-first approach: To serve the people of Colorado, we develop a culture and work environment that creates an energized, inspired, and healthy team capable of giving their best to Coloradans .

  Balance creates quality of life: We want our team to be resilient through a supportive workplace that values flexibility, health and wellness, and employee engagement.

  We hold ourselves accountable: We take responsibility through our actions, programs, and results for the state of health and human services in Colorado.

  Transparency matters: We are open and honest with employees, our partners, the Coloradans we serve, and the public.

  We are ethical: We abide by what is best for those we serve by doing what is right, not what is easy.

  Collaboration helps us rise together: We work together with all partners, employees, and clients to achieve the best outcomes for Coloradans.

  We are committed to increasing the diversity of our staff and providing culturally responsive programs and services. Therefore, we encourage responses from people of diverse backgrounds and abilities.

  ADAA Accommodations: CDHS is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the application process, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, participating in the employee selection process, and/or to perform essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying or interviewing for this position, please direct your inquiries to our ADAA Coordinator, Nancy Schmelzer, at cdhs_ada@state.co.us or call 1-800-929-0791.

  THE STATE OF COLORADO IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER (https://cdhs.colorado.gov/information-for-job-applicants#eoe)

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The State of Colorado offers permanent employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, life and disability insurance, as well as a comprehensive leave program. Please click the following link for detailed information: www.colorado.gov/pacific/dhr/benefits

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A requirement of this position is to possess and maintain a valid dietitian license. For verification purposes have you attached a copy of you dietitian license (preferred), if not please provide your license number.

02

How years of experience do you have in medical nutritional therapy and/or behavioral health or eating disorders.

• 2 or more years

• 1-2 years

• Less than a year

  03

  How years of experience do you have in a hospital setting.

• 2 or more years

• 1 - 2 years

• Less than a year

  04

  Do you possess a food safety certification(s)? If so, please upload to your application.

• Yes

• No

  05

  Your legal name is used in the hiring process for background checks. Did you use your full legal name in your application?

• Yes

• No

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  If you are a current or former State of Colorado employee, please list your employee number (starts with 997...). Failure to provide this requested information may render your application incomplete, and you may no longer be considered for the position.

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  Former State employees who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu of termination must disclose the information on the application. In the space below, please provide an explanation as to why the prior termination or resignation should NOT disqualify your application from the current position.

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