Registered Dietitian Reactivation Care Unit (Job ID: 8151)
St. Joseph's Health Centre, Unity Health Toronto, is proud to announce the opening of a new 21-bed Reactivation Care Unit located on 4G. This unit is dedicated to providing collaborative care for adult and geriatric patients who require therapy, reactivation, and transition planning to successfully transfer to their community or other supportive environments.
The Reactivation Care Unit focuses on patients who no longer need acute care but still require restorative care to aid their transition home or to other settings. As a member of our dedicated interprofessional team, you will deliver patient-centered care based on best practice principles. Our team will work closely with patients, families, and caregivers to provide reactivation therapy aimed at enhancing and optimizing patients' functional abilities and engagement in daily routines.
Note: This unit is not operable until March 2025 (subject to change).
Job Profile
The role of the Registered Dietitian (RD) is to provide evidence-based, high quality, specialized nutrition care unique to individuals as part of their medical treatment to improve or maintain health. This includes:
- Determining the appropriate route and composition of nutrition support,
- Formulation, implementation and evaluation of disease-specific nutrition care plans for energy, macronutrients, micronutrients (vitamins, minerals and electrolytes) and fluids based on a complete nutritional assessment.
- To provide treatment, support, consultation and education to patients, family members/caregivers, external agencies and staff with respect to all aspects of nutrition care.
The Registered Dietitian (RD) is a self-regulated health professional who:
- Uses appropriate tools and methods to gather relevant objective and subjective information related to the factors that support screening, assessing patients for nutritional risk and the need for nutrition intervention.
- Collaborates with the patient*, their family**, and the interprofessional team to make recommendations for appropriate interventions, service frequency, service duration, and monitoring
- Delivers care based on evidence and relevant best-practices
- Supervises additional roles as relevant (e.g. RD with Temporary Registration status)
- Supports the organization's academic mandate by participating in student learning through supervision, evaluation, teaching etc.
- Contributes to intraprofessional and interprofessional education for internal and/or external stakeholders
- Participates in clinical program development, research, and quality assurance activities
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Applied Science in Human Nutrition (or equivalent);
- Registration with College of Dietitians of Ontario (CDO)
- Must have current BLS training
- Knowledge, skills and judgement to safely complete the job requirements
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Must be able to work co-operatively and constructively with other interprofessional team members;
- Demonstrated flexibility in provision of patient care