Nutritionist - Essen Medical Associates

Company Overview: Essen Health Care is a growing community healthcare network provides high quality, compassionate, and accessible medical care to some of the most vulnerable and under-served residents of New York State. Guided by a ‘population health’ model of care, Essen has five integrated clinical divisions offering services in primary & specialty offices, urgent care centers, and nursing homes, as well as house calls for home bound patients; all clinical services are also offered via telehealth. Our Care Management division supports patient-centered care through care coordination, complex care management and helping address health-related social needs.

Founded in 1999, Essen provides care in all five boroughs of New York City, with a primary focus in the Bronx. Staffed by over 300 primary and specialty care physicians and advanced clinicians, Essen Health Care is one of the largest, most comprehensive private medical groups in New York City. Essen maintains a Clinical Information Services team that maintains our enterprise-wide electronic medical record system, data repository, clinical analytics and population health capabilities. Our Community Services teams creates and sustains relationship with community organizations and agencies and health plans.

Essen is dedicated to ensuring the quality of care for all patients and has been designated ‘Level 3 Patient Centered Medical Home’ by the National Committee for Quality Assurance. Essen has won awards for its patient care innovations and recently launched Intention Health Ventures to develop and commercialize our technology innovations.

Job Summary: We are seeking a dynamic Nutritionist to work closely with clients to develop healthy eating habits. Our nutritionist will collaborate with an expert medical team and exercise physiologists to develop appropriate nutritional care plans based on extensive and comprehensive evaluation of our patients medical risk factors and current health.

• Counsel patients on any dietary issues and healthy eating habits, provide individual nutritional assessment and counseling.

• Develop nutrition plans while considering the client’s budget and tastes.

• Create a detailed nutrition plan and provide follow up support to patients.

• Assess clients’ nutritional and health needs

• Evaluate if the meal plans have a positive effect on clients’ health

• Develops educational plan that takes into consideration individualized nutrition status, educational level, readiness to learn and barriers.

• Read and contribute to the latest nutritional research

• Speak to groups about the importance of nutrition to prevent specific diseases

• Document patient progress while adhering to HIPPA guidelines regarding confidentiality of medical information.

• Bachelors Degree, Master's preferred, in Nutrition and you must be a Registered Dietitian or Registered Dietitian Nutritionist.

• Minimum of 2+ years experience, preferably in an outpatient setting

• Must have excellent writing and word processing skills, including proficiency in MS Office and Diet Analysis software programs

• Detail-oriented and highly organized

Salary: $70,000-$100,000

Essen Health Care * is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we seek candidates who desire to work in and serve an ethnically-diverse population.*