<p>Job Summary:</p> <p>Provides nutrition education and clinical services within established guidelines.</p> <p>Essential Responsibilities:</p> <ul> <li>Upholds Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities and applicable state, federal and local laws. </li><li>Participates in establishing department strategic goals and priorities. </li><li>Assesses member needs, establishes priorities, designs, develops, recommends, updates, implements and evaluates programs, curriculum, materials (written and audiovisual), protocols, procedures and standards for health/nutrition education. </li><li>Plans, participates and evaluates community events and coordinates use of community resources as appropriate. </li><li>Implements nutrition care plans to include follow-up and referrals to government, community and/or other Kaiser Permanente facilities for continuity of nutrition care. </li><li>Educates/counsels members, family and caregivers regarding health and nutrition on an individual or group setting (classes). </li><li>Develops meal plans as appropriate to meet members lifestyle, socio-economic background, age, culture, diagnosis and religious affiliation. </li><li>Consults and educates physicians and other healthcare providers regarding member and population specific nutrition/health related issues. </li><li>Participates in multidisciplinary care teams and committees. </li><li>Collects data, plans, prepares and implements reports for performance improvement and/or quality assurance audits. </li><li>Develops grants and proposals for health/nutrition programs. </li><li>Plans, conducts and evaluates in-service education programs for department staff, the multidisciplinary care team and physicians. </li><li>Individual Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) as appropriate: </li><li>Provides high quality, evidence-based, efficient, customer-focused MNT, including nutrition screening, assessment, care planning and education for appropriate nutrition intervention. </li><li>Develops, implements, and monitors ongoing plan of care based on the screening and assessment of the patient specific nutrition care plans/education and based on the patients age, nutrition and psychosocial status, diagnosis, cultural background and religious affiliation. </li><li>Other duties as assigned. </li></ul>