Nutrition Educator Job Description Template

Nutrition Educator Job Responsibilities:

Promotes health through nutrition by designing, implementing, and teaching nutrition techniques and programs; maintaining third-party reimbursement approvals.

Nutrition Educator Job Duties:

• Teaches nutrition by developing, implementing, and marketing nutrition education services and programs to hospital patients, hospital employees, home care patients, outpatients, and the community.
• Designs nutrition education services by researching, developing, writing, and updating policies, procedures, methods, and guidelines.
• Improves quality results by studying, evaluating, and re-designing processes; implementing changes.
• Encourages and maintains third-party reimbursements by using quality assurance results to substantiate the cost-effectiveness of nutrition education services and programs.
• Promotes nutrition programs by arranging media coverage; presenting nutrition information presentations within the hospital, in the local school system, in social services community programs, and in civic community organizations.
• Conducts in-service training for professional staff by reviewing special diet plans; presenting latest research on nutrition-related subjects; introducing new nutrition programs and services.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
• Serves and protects the hospital community by adhering to professional standards, hospital policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements, and jcaho standards.
• Enhances nutrition department and hospital reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

Nutrition Educator Skills and Qualifications:

Presentation Skills, Nutrition, Health Promotion and Maintenance, Training Management, Listening, Quality Management, Energy Level, Teaching, Tracking Budget Expenses, Food Research, Written Communication