MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
SPECIFIC
Clinical Care
Quality of work
- Maintain consistent standards of care
- Conduct nutritional assessment through analysis of relevant data and clinical reasoning
- Formulate an appropriate nutrition diagnosis
- Develop and implement the appropriate medical nutrition therapy and nutritional care plan
- Set treatment goals in collaboration with patient
- Monitor and review patient's progress and adjust care plan accordingly
- Provide patient education and caregiver training
- Work with caregivers and multi-disciplinary team
- Documentation of nutrition care process in accordance with the guidelines determined by the department and the hospital
- Adhere to organizational and departmental guidelines
- Practice according to the clinical standards set by the department and hospital
- All expected clinical competency must be achieved according to the competency checklist
- Maintain and manage workload
- Achieve target caseload and clinical key achievement areas
- Plan and complete work effectively within time frame
- Prioritize workload appropriately
- Assist in quality improvement activities/projects (relating to improvement in clinical care)
- Adhere to patient quality service according to standards by the hospital and department
- Actively participate as a member for quality improvement projects at hospital/department level
- Maintain consistent CEP standards
- Maintain professional communication with patients, caregivers, doctors, nurses and other allied healthcare workers
- Uphold professional ethics
- Safe care
- Maintain zero harm to patient
- Follows infection control practices as determined by the hospital
Education
- Supervision and mentoring
- Assist in the co-supervision/co-training of staff
- Assist in the supervision of 1st - 2nd year student
- Supervise polytechnic student project
- Co-placement educator for university student placements
- Delivery of education
- Deliver in-service training and education to intra-department colleagues
- Prepare training material and conduct in-house and public forums as required
- Present in continual educational in-services and forums
- Deliver education to patients/public
- Participate and contribute in voluntary and community organizations in the provision of nutritional activities
- Contribute to media responses
- Assist to conduct professional workshops and seminars
- Planning and development
- Assist to organize, coordinate and provide continuing education to colleagues
- Assist to organise health related education event or community event
- Assist to develop resource materials
- Assist to review and update curriculum exam papers for student
Research
- Update knowledge in practice
- Apply and demonstrate evidence based practice
- Critically evaluate research literature and share with others
- Develop research
- Participate and support research data collection/design and analysis
- Create and communicate evidence
- Assist to develop abstracts/posters/oral presentations
Management/Leadership
- Mange services and resources
- Assist to manage services and resources to achieve department/hospital targets
- Coordinate and assist to manage food and beverage services
- Implement new service programmes under the supervision of senior dietitian to meet patients needs
- Collaboration and communication
- Assist to lead department workgroup to deliver and improve service and care
- Participate in department project
- Set strategic direction
- Assist to manage information and data to identify gaps and potential areas of change
- Assist to evaluate and present findings to department to influence change
GENERAL
- Actively involved in hospital and department's initiatives
- Any other relevant duties as assigned by the supervisor / HOD
