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Nutritionist job description
A ready advert for a Nutritionist job in Libya, in Arabic and English. Post it on jobs.ly and edit it to fit your organization.
About the job
We are looking for a nutritionist to assess the nutritional status of patients and clients, plan diets suited to their health, and follow up and adjust those plans as needed.
Duties and responsibilities
- Assess patients' nutrition using body measurements, lab results and diet history
- Prepare therapeutic diets for patients with diabetes, high blood pressure, kidney disease or obesity
- Follow up patients and adjust their diets as their condition changes
- Plan tube and intravenous feeding with the medical team on the wards
- Review patients' meals with the hospital kitchen and check they match the prescribed diets
- Run healthy eating sessions for individuals and groups
- Record assessments and diet plans in the patient's file
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in clinical nutrition or food and nutrition science
- 3 to 6 years of experience in clinical nutrition
The years of experience follow the level you choose when posting.
Skills
- Clinical nutrition
- Nutritional assessment
- Meal planning
- Calorie calculation
- Enteral and parenteral nutrition
- Maternal and child nutrition
- Counselling
- Communication
Preferred
- Experience in community nutrition programmes or treating child malnutrition
- Experience with body composition analysers
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