Dietician - UAEn

**DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Assess nutritional needs, diet restrictions and current health plans to develop and implement dietary-care plans and provide nutritional counseling.
- Consult with physicians and health care personnel to determine nutritional needs and diet restrictions of patient or client.
- Advise patients and their families on nutritional principles, dietary plans and diet modifications, and food selection and preparation.
- Counsel individuals and groups on basic rules of good nutrition, healthy eating habits, and nutrition monitoring to improve their quality of life.
- Monitor food service operations to ensure conformance to nutritional, safety, sanitation and quality standards.
- Coordinate recipe development and standardization and develop new menus for independent food service operations.
- Develop policies for food service or nutritional programs to assist in health promotion and disease control.
- Inspect meals served for conformance to prescribed diets and standards of palatability and appearance.
- Develop curriculum and prepare manuals, visual aids, course outlines, and other materials used in teaching.
- Ability to ensure compliance with SEHHI food program.

**DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Assess nutritional needs, diet restrictions and current health plans to develop and implement dietary-care plans and provide nutritional counseling.
- Consult with physicians and health care personnel to determine nutritional needs and diet restrictions of patient or client.
- Advise patients and their families on nutritional principles, dietary plans and diet modifications, and food selection and preparation.
- Counsel individuals and groups on basic rules of good nutrition, healthy eating habits, and nutrition monitoring to improve their quality of life.
- Monitor food service operations to ensure conformance to nutritional, safety, sanitation and quality standards.
- Coordinate recipe development and standardization and develop new menus for independent food service operations.
- Develop policies for food service or nutritional programs to assist in health promotion and disease control.
- Inspect meals served for conformance to prescribed diets and standards of palatability and appearance.
- Develop curriculum and prepare manuals, visual aids, course outlines, and other materials used in teaching.
- Ability to ensure compliance with SEHHI food program.

**QUALIFICATION, LICENSURE, EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, SPECIAL SKILLS**
- **Education**:Requires at least a bachelor degree in dietetics, foods and nutrition, food service systems management, or a related area.
- **Experience**:Experience in hospital settings is required.
- Licensed by DOH to practice in UAE.
- **Special qualifications**:Computer literacy. Demonstrates strong verbal and written communication skills. Must possess leadership knowledge, skills, and abilities including initiative, team building, results orientation, customer service, planning and organization, creativity, and innovation. Must possess technical proficiencies in food service including: food service handler certification and knowledge of health code standards; skilled in marketing and merchandising procedures; working knowledge of industry standards (key result indicators); and strong organizational skills.
- **Core competencies**:Communication, Management, Planning
- Excellent command of oral and written English.