What are the responsibilities and job description for the Licensed Dietician position at Perimeter Healthcare Careers?
Our team ensures patients receive the high-quality, personalized care they need to overcome mental health and behavioral challenges. We offer a range of settings including inpatient psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment centers, and outpatient counseling and therapies.
We are seeking a Part-Time Registered Dietitian to support the nutritional health, emotional well-being, and developmental needs of adolescents in a residential treatment setting. This role provides trauma-informed, developmentally appropriate nutrition services and works collaboratively within an interdisciplinary treatment team to promote safety, trust, empowerment, and healing.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct trauma-informed intake and ongoing nutritional assessments for adolescent residents
- Complete dietary assessments and develop individualized, culturally responsive nutrition care plans
- Provide family consultations to support continuity of care and reinforce therapeutic nutrition goals
- Facilitate trauma-informed nutrition education groups tailored to adolescents
- Provide specialized consultations and staffing support as needed
- Collaborate closely with kitchen and food service staff to ensure menus support medical, therapeutic, and cultural dietary needs
- Participate in interdisciplinary treatment team meetings to support individualized treatment planning
- Knowledge of adolescent growth and development within a trauma-informed care framework
- Ability to make competent clinical decisions regarding nutritional needs while maintaining sensitivity to trauma histories
- Strong ability to work collaboratively with clinical, residential, and management teams
- Ability to provide safe, respectful, and empowering nutrition services in a structured residential environment
- Commitment to quality, ethical, and cost-effective care
- Age: Must be at least 21 years of age
- Education and Experience:
- Graduation from an accredited college or university with an undergraduate degree in Food Systems Management or Dietetics
- Or Clinical Dietetics course work approval by the American Dietetic Association
- And completion of a one-year dietetic internship
- Licensure & Certification:
- Current Registered Dietitian (RD/RDN) licensure in the state, as applicable
- Active registration with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR)
- Active membership with the American Dietetic Association
- Availability to work 15–20 hours per week
- Availability across at least three (3) days per week to meet resident and facility needs
- Ability to work on-site in a residential adolescent treatment environment
- Experience working with adolescents in residential, behavioral health, or trauma-informed settings
- Familiarity with eating disorders, mood disorders, or co-occurring diagnoses in youth populations
Perimeter Healthcare is one of the leading behavioral health care providers in the country for children, adolescents, adults, and senior adults. We deliver hope to our patients through the delivery of comprehensive and dedicated treatment programs. Our focus and commitment on service excellence is available across several states and in different care settings. Our team ensures our patients receive the required care that they or their loved one needs. We offer several programs for our patients including inpatient acute treatment and residential treatment. We are seeking staff who exhibit daily the following values: C- Compassion A- Accountability R – Respect and E- Empowerment.
EEO
We are committed to providing an environment of diversity and inclusion where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and fellow employees. Perimeter Behavioral Health is an equal opportunity employer regarding all recruitment, training, and selection process within the company regarding race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, and gender identity, genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
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