Certified Diabetes Educator - Dietician - Primary Care

Address: 8536 Palmetto Commerce Parkway, Ladson, SC 29456

Schedule: Monday-Friday; 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Job Summary 

To provide high quality healthcare through the provision of diabetes self-management training in a variety of settings to meet the needs of patients, their families and other healthcare professionals. To create and coordinate a multi-disciplinary lifestyle modification program to help participants lower their risk of heart and vascular disease through healthy exercise and eating patterns. 

Minimum Qualifications 

Education 

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university required; master’s degree preferred.  Completion of an Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) approved internship program.  

Licensure/Certification 

• Must be a Licensed Registered Dietitian, a Registered Dietitian by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) and Certified as a Diabetes Educator by the National Certification Board of Diabetes Educators (NCBDE).  

• Recent graduates will be considered but must be Registered and Licensed (preferred in Virginia).

Knowledge/Skills 

• Possesses comprehensive knowledge of and experience in diabetes prevention, prediabetes, and diabetes management.  

• Educates, supports, and advocates for people affected by diabetes, addressing the stages of diabetes throughout the lifespan.  

• Promotes self-management to achieve individualized behavioral and treatment goals that reduce risks and optimize health outcomes. 

• Ability to provide education and/or consultation for patients, family, and other healthcare professionals.  Ability to communicate with the healthcare team information that impacts patient care. 

• Conducts diabetes self-management education according to best practices in both individual and group setting.  

• Coordinates care, collects diabetes data, and serves as a diabetes resource to healthcare team.  

• Must be able to follow oral and written instructions and procedures and to communicate clearly. 

• Responsible for professional growth and development, functions as a clinical resource for the interdisciplinary care team, utilizes evidence-based practice to guide the provision of care. mentoring/precepting dietetic interns as assigned.   

• Participates in health fairs and other community activities that promote health, wellness, and CareAlliance Health Services.   

• Serves as a resource for compliance with modified diets through direct and indirect interaction with the diet office.  

• Patients, families and/or significant others, hospital and medical staff, employees, and visitors. 

Work Demands/Environment 

• Frequently standing, walking, sitting. Intermittent stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling.  

• Intermittent lifting, moving, or carrying up to 25 lbs.  

• Frequent pushing or pulling up to 25 lbs.  

• Corrected hearing and vision to normal range.  

• Possible exposure to wet floors, steam pipes and/or variable kitchen temperatures. 

• Possible exposure to toxic or caustic chemicals, infectious materials, communicable diseases and/or other conditions common to a healthcare environment.  

• Requires work under stressful conditions, deadlines, and/or irregular hours.  

• Travel may be required.  

• Positions located in the Home Health department may have occasional exposure to communicable diseases, body fluids, unclean environments, toxic substances, pharmaceutical preparations, hazardous and unsafe driving conditions, and other conditions common to delivery of health care in the community.  

Responsibilities 

• Assesses and teaches diabetes self-management education skills including blood glucose monitoring, insulin action timing and administration, medication education, symptoms and treatment of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia, exercise guidelines, stress management techniques, post-partum follow up guidelines, insulin pump therapy, Continuous Glucose Sensor, reduction of risks, and survival skills. 

• Responsible for data collection utilizing appropriate documentation tools. 

• Participates in ADA accreditation activities. 

• Assesses, documents, and helps coordinate plan of care for appropriate measures including: HbA1c/ glucose screening tests, dilated retinal eye exams, nephropathy screening, EKG, foot exams, and patient goal setting. 
  Participates in program development as well as marketing.  

• Responsible for making outreach visits to physician offices to promote and grow diabetes related services.  

• Serves as the nutrition and diabetes resource for the interdisciplinary team. 

• Provides education and develops resources as needed.   

• Communicates patient information to referring providers and appropriate staff in a timely manner. 

• Promotes wellness to patients, families, team members and the community by participating in health fairs, speaking engagements and other community events 

• Performs other job duties and responsibilities as required.