Nutrition Director jobs in Portland, OR
Nutrition Director directs and oversees all aspects of an organization's or institution's nutrition guidelines and initiatives. Oversees institution of basic nutrition plans including individualized menu plans and monitors intake and acceptance of meals, snacks, and supplements. Being a Nutrition Director monitors and ensures proper nutrition education is provided. May oversee menu planning or food service operations. Additionally, Nutrition Director requires a bachelor's degree. Requires Registered Dietitian (RD) or Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) from Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Typically reports to top management. The Nutrition Director manages a departmental sub-function within a broader departmental function. Creates functional strategies and specific objectives for the sub-function and develops budgets/policies/procedures to support the functional infrastructure. To be a Nutrition Director typically requires 5+ years of managerial experience. Deep knowledge of the managed sub-function and solid knowledge of the overall departmental function. (Copyright 2024 Salary.com)
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Director, Food & Nutrition Services (Regional)
- Kaiser Permanente
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Clackamas, OR
OTHER
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Job Summary:
Holds managers accountable for ensuring the completion of cleaning/sanitary logs and revises and aligns company standards to meet regulatory and compliance guidelines; plans the selection of vendor that will support the long-term needs of the or organization and ensures vendor contracts are in place, establishes vendor performance metrics, and drives practices to ensure service delivery is safe, sanitary, supports patient satisfaction, and is compliant with vendor agreements and regulatory standards; provides strategic direction and signs off on procurement budgets, and directing the strategic planning and continuous improvement of procurement, inventory management, labeling, storage, utilization, and recall of perishable and nonperishable food items; ensures a clear understanding across teams on protocols used to assemble patient meal trays and deliver/cater of food; coordinates with leaders across departments to support workplans to ensure food supply, delivery, and services are efficiently maintained during times of crisis or emergency; and reviews reported patient responses to quality control survey questions and integrates knowledge across businesses related to quality metrics to align initiatives that improve food service operations and the patient care experience.
Essential Responsibilities:- Prepares individuals for growth opportunities and advancement; builds internal collaborative networks for self and others. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; drives collaboration to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to foster performance improvement. Demonstrates continuous learning; oversees the recruitment, selection, and development of talent; ensures performance management guidelines and expectations to achieve business needs. Stays up to date with organizational best practices, processes, benchmarks, and industry trends; shares best practices within and across teams. Motivates and empowers teams; maintains a highly skilled and engaged workforce by aligning resource plans with business objectives. Provides guidance when difficult decisions need to be made; creates opportunities for expanded scope of decision making and impact.
- Oversees the operation of multiple units within a department by identifying member and operational needs; ensures the management of work assignment completion; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; ensures products and/or services meet member requirements and expectations while aligning with organizational strategies. Gains cross-functional support for business plans and priorities; assumes responsibility for decision making; sets standards, measures progress, and fosters resolution of escalated issues. Communicates goals and objectives; analyzes resources, costs, and forecasts and incorporates them into business plans; prioritizes and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; ensures teams accomplish business objectives.
- Contributes to sanitation and maintenance of food services work areas and equipment by: revising and establishing companys standards for cleaning and sanitizing procedures, and working with senior directors or above on future budget needs for new equipment or related expenditures are maintained.
- Contributes to sanitation and maintenance of food services work areas and equipment by: establishing long-terms needs and aligning relationships with vendors to ensure vendor contracts are in place; implementing standards to ensure vendors are providing services consistent with vendor agreements, regulatory compliance standards; and establishing vendor metrics to ensure service delivery is compliant, safe, sanitary, and supports patient satisfaction.
- Contributes to food procurement, storage, and distribution by: directing planning for inventory needs across the company, reviewing inventory usage, and providing strategic direction for and signing off on procurement budgets; setting strategic direction and planning/forecasting for stock levels, sufficient inventory, and makes considerations such as budget and quality of foods; and driving the use of best practice strategies and procedures for labeling and storage of perishable items to align with company standards and regulatory requirements, within procurement budget.
- Contributes to food recall management by: establishing strategies to return food that has been recalled or is at risk of contamination; and refining communication plans to patients and staff about ongoing updates or actions being taken resolve food recall issues.
- Contributes to meal planning, preparation, and production by: directing the strategic planning and continuous improvement of menu items to meet patient/customer needs, and setting standards for how teams are processing meals according to a variety of recipes and/or production schedules, and advising and signing off on budgets as needed; driving state-of-the art solutions to ensure food is prepared in a safe manner, according to food preparation standards, and is safe for patients; and ensuring a clear understanding across teams on protocols used to assemble patient meal trays and cafeteria and/or catering services, and directing the planning of resources so that team members can cater food items according to scheduled mealtimes.
- Contributes to emergency planning by: coordinating with leadership across other departments to support workplans that ensure food supply, delivery, and services are efficiently maintained during times of crisis or emergency.
- Serves customers and patients by: driving open communication and collaboration across teams to develop innovative solutions that increase customer/patient satisfaction and advising senior management on the resolution of service recovery issues; ensuring operational and strategic plans are in place so that unit based teams are able to support food service and delivery operations and help the business unit deliver quality care; reviewing reported patient responses to quality control survey questions, establishing cohesive strategies used by others to submit quality control reporting, and integrating knowledge of metrics to assess quality control and quality performance across businesses to align on strategy; driving state-of-the-art efforts to reduce critical control points to acceptable levels and improve the care experience; and participating in interdisciplinary teams that review customer/patient concerns, ensuring that each is addressed/resolved.
- 9 Days Ago
Registered Dietitian (50% remote)
- RD Nutrition Consultants
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Portland, OR
FULL_TIME
- Join our dynamic team at RD Nutrition Consultants LLC, a leading Dietitian Nutritionist Consulting firm providing expert services to healthcare facilities nationwide. We are currently looking for a pa...
- 17 Days Ago
Registered Dietitian
- RD Nutrition Consultants
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Gresham, OR
FULL_TIME
- RD Nutrition Consultants LLC is seeking a Clinical Registered Dietitian for 10-12 hours per month in the Gresham, OR area! (50% of the position completed remotely via telehealth) Schedule: Flexible da...
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Consultant Registered Dietitian
- S&S Nutrition Network
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Portland, OR
CONTRACTOR
- About us S&S Nutrition Network Our expert team of nearly 90 registered and licensed dietitians have extensive knowledge of regulations and nutrition standards for health care facilities and senior liv...
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Registered Dietitian - 30% Remote
- RD Nutrition Consultants
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Portland, OR
FULL_TIME
- Join our dynamic team at RD Nutrition Consultants LLC, a leading Dietitian Nutritionist Consulting firm providing expert services to healthcare facilities nationwide. We are currently looking for a pa...
- 12 Days Ago
Registered Dietitian - 30% Remote
- RD Nutrition Consultants
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Beaverton, OR
FULL_TIME
- Join our dynamic team at RD Nutrition Consultants LLC, a leading Dietitian Nutritionist Consulting firm providing expert services to healthcare facilities nationwide. We are currently looking for a pa...
- 12 Days Ago
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On Call Nurse RN -Withdrawal Management
- Fora Health
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Portland, OR
- Job Description Job Description POSITION SUMMARY The Withdrawal Management Nurse provides nursing support, assessment an...
- 4/23/2024 12:00:00 AM
Nurse LPN -Night Shifts- Withdrawal Management
- Fora Health
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Portland, OR
- Job Description Job Description The withdrawal management/urgent care nurse joins a dynamic, interdisciplinary team of p...
- 4/23/2024 12:00:00 AM
Barre3 Portland Instructor
- Barre3
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Portland, OR
- WHO WE ARE: Barre3 is a fitness company with a revolutionary vision: to redefine what success in fitness means. Profiled...
- 4/22/2024 12:00:00 AM
Market Manager, Pac NW
- Pernod Ricard Usa
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Portland, OR
- Position Title: Market Manager, Pac NWLocation:Portland ,OR, RemoteCareers that unlock the magic of human connectionWho ...
- 4/22/2024 12:00:00 AM
Produce Team Member
- Zupans
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Lake Oswego, OR
- Works with other associates to ensure that all objectives and goals of the department and store, as communicated by the ...
- 4/21/2024 12:00:00 AM
Barre3 Portland Instructor
- barre3
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Portland, OR
- WHO WE ARE: Barre3 is a fitness company with a revolutionary vision: to redefine what success in fitness means. Profiled...
- 4/19/2024 12:00:00 AM
Staff Development Coordinator (LPN or RN)
- Prestige Care, Inc
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Vancouver, WA
- Position Details * Salary: 38.00 - 57.00 Hourly Wage range DOE and length of time with Prestige SDC-LPN $33.00-$46.00 SD...
- 4/19/2024 12:00:00 AM
Territory Manager - Structural Heart, MitraClip (Oregon/Idaho)
- Abbott Laboratories
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Portland, OR
- Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-chan...
- 3/19/2024 12:00:00 AM
About Portland, Oregon
Portland is the largest and most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County. It is a major port in the Willamette Valley region of the Pacific Northwest, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers. As of 2017, Portland had an estimated population of 647,805, making it the 26th-largest city in the United States, and the second-most populous in the Pacific Northwest (after Seattle). Approximately 2.4 million people live in the Portland metropolitan statistical area (MSA), making it the 25th most populous MSA in the United States. Its Combined Statist...
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Income Estimation for Nutrition Director jobs
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Portland, Oregon area prices
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What does a Nutrition Director do?
Nutrition Director in Bradenton, FL
A Nutrition Manager (NM) plays an important role in healthcare delivery, working closely with many other healthcare professionals to ensure patients receive the best nutritional care possible, and have the best healthcare experience and outcome.
February 02, 2020
It's essential that clinical food service is always operating in accordance to safety, sanitation, and quality nutrition standards set by the government.
December 26, 2019
Nutrition Director in Atlanta, GA
“CEP is a powerful new tool that allows high-need schools to offer breakfast and lunch at no cost to all students, eliminating paperwork, lowering the administrative burden on our schools, and increasing participation in critical nutrition programs,” McAuliffe said, adding taking advantage of the federally funded program is a way to bring Virginia’s federal tax dollars back to its schools.
February 01, 2020
Nutrition Director in New Orleans, LA
Abbott director of user experience and research and development Dan Schmitz Abbott Nutrition.
January 15, 2020