Registered Dietitian

About This Role

As a Registered Dietitian in the Over-18 Eating Disorders Program, you’ll provide nutrition therapy and support to patients whose relationship with food is the primary target of treatment. You’ll meet with patients individually, facilitate clinical nutrition groups, and provide direct support during meals and snacks. You’ll partner closely with Primary Therapists, Group Therapists, Family Therapists, and Prescribers to ensure comprehensive and compassionate care. Reports to the Associate Director of the Eating Disorders Program, with a dotted line clinically to the Director of the Eating Disorders Program, who oversees all clinical aspects of the program.

What You'll Do:

Nutrition Assessment and Care Planning

Complete nutrition assessments at admission, including all aspects of nutrition care process—diagnosis, intervention, monitoring, and evaluation planning
Develop individualized meal plans that support nutritional rehabilitation and progressive exposure to avoided and feared foods
Establish and revise individually determined, biologically appropriate weight ranges in collaboration with the treatment team
Collaborate with nursing and prescribers to assess and monitor ongoing medical status, including weights, vital signs, and lab values, and adjust nutrition interventions accordingly
Revise the nutrition plan as intake, medical status, and treatment targets change
Individual Nutrition Sessions

Meet with patients individually to review intake, adjust the meal plan, and set nutrition-related treatment targets
Address food rules, ritualized eating, compensatory behaviors, and avoidance directly
Support provision of nutrition interventions, including structured food exposure planning
Address exercise, movement, and compensatory activity in collaboration with the treatment team
Prepare patients for independent eating at step-down and discharge, including grocery preparation and restaurant planning
Group Facilitation and Eating Support

Facilitate clinical nutrition groups within the program curriculum
Facilitate applied nutrition groups, including in vivo food-based interventions
Provide required coverage during supported meals and snacks
Coach patients through meal completion, distress, and post-meal urges
Communicate intake and behavioral observations to the treatment team

Care Coordination

Partner with the Primary Therapist to align nutrition targets with the case formulation and treatment targets
Contribute nutrition and medical observations during interdisciplinary rounds
Serve as the program’s resource on nutrition status and needs for prescribers, nursing, and clinical staff
Provide nutrition education to families and support people in partnership with the Family Therapist
Coordinate with outpatient dietitians and medical providers through nutrition aftercare handoff
Contribute nutrition documentation supporting initial and continued insurance authorization
Program Operations

Participate in required program training, fidelity monitoring, supervision, and consultation
Complete required documentation throughout treatment
Contribute to development of program nutrition standards, meal structure, curriculum development and revision, and food sourcing practices

Other duties, as assigned

Who You Are:

Credentials and Experience

Master’s degree in dietetics or related field, or bachelor’s degree if licensed prior to 2024 (required)
Registered Dietitian credentialed through the Commission on Dietetic Registration (required)
State licensure or certification as required for practice
2+ years of experience as a Registered Dietitian, with experience in eating disorder treatment (required)
Experience in PHP, IOP, residential, or inpatient setting (preferred)
Skills and Approach (preferred)

Practices from a weight-inclusive framework
Adopts an "all foods fit" approach toward clinical nutrition
Comfortable providing nutrition care in a behavioral treatment context, where the meal plan is an exposure rather than only a prescription
Able to hold the meal plan under patient distress without negotiating, accommodating, or reassuring
Recognizes how co-occurring OCD, trauma, and mood symptoms present around food, and adjusts approach accordingly
Comfortable with medical acuity and with escalating medical concerns promptly
Works within a defined curriculum and fidelity expectations rather than an idiosyncratic model
Practices as an independent clinical discipline and collaborates with therapists as peers
Seeks and uses supervision and consultation