Inova Fairfax Hospital is looking for a dedicated Transplant Nutrition Educator to join the Heart & Lung team. This role will be Full-Time; regular office hours, Monday – Friday; no on-call.

Inova is consistently ranked a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.

Featured Benefits:

Committed to Team Member Health: offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.
Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions – starting on your first day.
Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.
Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.
Work/Life Balance: offering paid time off, paid parental leave, & flexible work schedules.

Transplant Nutrition Educator Job Responsibilities:

Develops, reviews, and revises organ-specific transplant nutritional assessment policies at least annually or as needed to comply with updates to best practices or regulatory changes. Evaluates literature, new products, and techniques, and develops standards/protocols to ensure consistent evidence-based therapies.
Provides individual clinical, educational, and behavioral assessments specific to organ transplant appropriateness including frailty and functional assessments. Develops patient-specific medical nutrition therapy programs including assessment, instruction, and evaluation of program effectiveness. Conducts nutrition-focused physical exams; functional/frailty testing including but not limited to Fried frailty evaluation; pre/post-transplant evaluations (assess nutritional status, diet adherence, lab management, weight loss/gain).
Provides recommendations regarding pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapies.
Attends all meetings as needed including Quality, Ad-Hoc, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and serves as a transplant nutrition expert resource to the interdisciplinary team. Participates in unit-based, disease-specific, and interdisciplinary rounds; participates in transplant selection committee weekly meetings; and acts as a consultant/resource to all members of the health care team.
Represents the transplant nutritional assessment and education program in department, hospital, and system-level continuing education offerings. Provides nutrition lectures and in-services to nutrition and medical staff as assigned; develops and facilitates orientation for new staff, and acts as mentor for team members.
Develops and facilitates patient education and support groups; may serve as Guest speaker for Transplant Support Group; provides biweekly pre/post-transplant education nutrition classes.
Develops and facilitates quality assessment and practice improvement initiatives.
Represents the transplant nutritional assessment and patient education program to regulatory surveyors as required.
Collaborates with outside health services during patient evaluations: i.e. dialysis centers, physical therapy services, weight loss services, and other Inova departments.
Indexes hospitalization: attends in-patient rounds, assesses malnutrition, blood glucose, renal electrolyte management, and nutrition support-enteral/parental.
Completes for outpatients: Telehealth visits, glucose management, weight loss/gain management.
Assesses Social Determinants of Health including food insecurity including community referrals as needed.
Serves as liaison/ambassador between patients/units and exercises advanced decision-making on patients’ behalf.
Collaborates with and mentors dietetic interns/students.
May perform additional duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education: Bachelor's degree in food and nutrition or dietetics
Experience: 4 years of solid organ transplant nutrition experience
Certification: Certified Clinical Transplant Dietitian (certifying body is NATCO) as a certification to be required within 12 months of date in the job; Registered Dietitian Upon Start

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Inova Health System is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, pregnancy (including childbirth, pregnancy-related conditions and lactation), race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristics protected by law.