Dietitian (For Cancer Patients) Up 6.5K #HJC

Dietitian (For Cancer Patients) Up 6.5K #HJC

Singapore | Posted: Sep 12, 2024

Primary Responsibilities:

• Adopts a patient-centered approach and principles of the social determinants of health for patient management.
• Provides nutrition assessment, nutrition support, counselling and education to patients and carers, individually or in groups (specialised discipline).
• Provides nutrition intervention based on various therapeutic diets through different modes of communication (e.g., phone/virtual/home visit/centre visit consultation).
• Reviews nutrition progress and documents patient management (specialised discipline).
• Participates in multidisciplinary team discussion for patient care.
• Organises and participates in delivery of nutrition education programmes for patients, carers, public, community providers and healthcare professionals.
• Acts as a mentor for junior Dietitians on issues regarding nutrition and Dietetics when applicable.
• Supervises junior Dietitians and/or Dietetic Technician.
• Develops and updates patient education materials for nutrition counselling and education.
• Reviews literature for evidence-based nutrition guidelines and updates Dietitians.

Secondary Responsibilities:

• Leads and participates in approved nutrition-related research.
• Facilitates and participates in continuing professional development to maintain professional standards and technical skills.
• Provides leadership in quality improvement programmes.

Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics.
• Completed clinical dietetic internships in approved institutions.
• At least 3 years of dietetic experience in public healthcare institutions.
• Ability to apply nutrition/dietetic knowledge to patient management appropriately.
• Basic financial knowledge in non-financial professionals.
• Familiar with specialised dietetic disciplines.