Nutritionist A0 – CENTRE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF KIGALI (CHUK)

Job responsibilities

. To assess patients’ nutritional needs, develop and implement nutrition programs, evaluate and record the results, 2. To confer with doctors and other health care professionals in order to coordinate medical and nutritional needs 3. To provide patients with current evidence based practice, service delivery and dietary intervention most appropriate to their needs. This includes identifying and establishing the nutritional needs basing on patient’s diagnosis; 4. To conduct nutritional counselling and nutritional education to assigned inpatients; basing on anthropometric measures and/or biological values; 5. To conduct a nutritional consultation for outpatients; 6. To develop nutritional care pathways and effectively manage a clinical caseload and provide a comprehensive service to the assigned patient/ patient group, 7. To contribute to quality improvement through research, audit, project work, and service development; 8. To comply with professional hospital standards, guidelines and policies related to dietetic service; 9. To design special dietary plan (menu plan) for assigned patients, 10. To participate effectively in the department (Consultation with all disciplines of the interdisciplinary team about the management plan for patients). This includes attending and contributing to relevant multidisciplinary ward rounds, projects and educational meetings; 11. To participate in the departmental, committees meetings and/or conferences, as deemed appropriate by the Responsible Person; 12. To participate in the clinical training of student dieticians in line with departmental practice; 13. To provide quality service to the selected patients supported by partners; 14. To supervise the distribution of nutrition rehabilitation products decided and recorded in the patient file; 15. To supervise the activities of the hospital food service and dietetic kitchen (area for preparation of therapeutic milk and RESOMAL; 16. To provide the technical support to the health system, 17. To develop monthly report to the responsible of dietetic service, 18. Submit monthly, quarterly and annually report to the supervisor 19. Perform other related duties as required

Qualifications

    • Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health

      3 Years of relevant experience

    • Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition & Dietetics

      3 Years of relevant experience

    • Bachelor’s Degree in Human Nutrition

      3 Years of relevant experience

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Nutritional science

    3 Years of relevant experience

Required certificates

  • Valid License to practice issued professional council in Rwanda

Required competencies and key technical skills

    • Resource management skills
    • Problem solving skills
    • Decision making skills
    • Time management skills
    • Risk management skills
    • Results oriented
    • Digital literacy skills
    • Strong analytical skills and leadership skills
  • Fluent in Kinyarwanda, English and/ or French; knowledge of all is an advantage

Psychometric Languages

  • English

Psychometric Domains

    • Problem solving

      Competence / Skills

    • Decision making

      Competence / Skills

    • Analytical skills

      Competence / Skills

    • Time management

      Competence / Skills

    • Attention and concentration

      Behavior and attitude

    • Coordination

      Behavior and attitude