Job Description:

About the Job

This is an entry-grade position focusing on preparing and implementing therapeutic diets, providing nutrition counselling, and implementing nutrition programs.

Responsibilities

• Preparing and implementing therapeutic diets for outpatients and inpatients
• Providing guidelines on therapeutic diets for existing and emerging diseases for hospital use and home based care and other institutions
• Treating and counselling patients using specialized dietetic nutritionally modified products
• Implementing the nutrition and dietetic process including screening; assessing, formulating and implementing nutrition interventions and evaluating outcomes
• Providing nutrition support in patient management in health care facilities
• Developing and disseminating nutrition behaviour change communication, information, education, and communication materials
• Implementing nutrition health programmes
• Collecting and compiling nutrition and dietetic data

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in any of the following disciplines: Foods, Nutrition² and Dietetics, Dietetics/Clinical Nutrition, Food Science and Nutrition or Home Economics from a recognized institution
• Registration by the Council of the Institute of Nutritionists and Dieticians (CIND)
• Certificate in Computer Application Skills from a recognized institution