Travel Dietitian/Registered Dietitian in Bethesda, MD

Company: GLC Group, GLC On-The-Go
Location: Bethesda
Posted on: March 28, 2026

Job Description:

Dietitian/Registered Dietitian Location: Bethesda, MD Agency: GLC Group, GLC On-The-Go Pay: Competitive weekly pay (inquire for details) Shift Information: 5 days Contract Duration: 52 Weeks Start Date: ASAP About the Position Duties of the Position Include All clinical and research nutrition services will be under the direction of a Registered Dietitian credentialed by the Clinical Center, NIH. The contractor will provide services once training has been completed and competency has been established. All clinical documentation in the Clinical Research Information System (CRIS) will be audited, reviewed for compliance, and co-signed/co-authored by a Registered Dietitian credentialed by the Clinical Center, NIH. Provides nutrition research services to support clinical research protocols. Maintains patient appointments and schedules on calendars. Educates patients on keeping food records and completing questionnaires. Reviews research food recalls, records, and questionnaires with patients. Codes research food recalls, records, and questionnaires. Reviews research food recalls, records, and questionnaires coded by other staff for accuracy and completeness. Conducts body composition assessments, including utilizing skinfold calipers, tape measures, and bioelectrical impedance. Plans, implements, and manages metabolic diets or special nutrient controlled diets that are a component of research protocols. This includes utilizing ProNutra to create diets, assign diets, and print menus, checklists, and labels and providing menu packets to the Metabolic Kitchen food service staff. Plans menus for complex clinical and research diets, monitors meals served for compliance with physician/protocol diet order, monitors patient’s compliance with diet order, and manages daily dietary needs of patients. This includes utilizing CBORD to manage patients’ meal, supplement, and formula requirements. Collects and records data on amount of food consumed for clinical calorie counts and research meal energy/nutrient consumption. Ensures research participant compliance with research diets. Collaborates with Metabolic Kitchen food service staff to ensure performance outcomes are met. Communicates with Metabolic Kitchen food service staff on metabolic diets, subjects, and delivery schedules. Answers food service staff’s questions or refers questions to the appropriate staff. Conducts inventory of goods and supplies for the Metabolic Kitchen including protocol-required foods and formulas. Places order requests to ensure adequate supplies to meet protocol requirements. Maintains nutrient databases for the Metabolic Kitchen, including a database in ProNutra and a photo repository. Updates the nutrient databases with nutrient, food composition, labelling, and packaging information. Collects, organizes, and manages nutrition research data from a variety of sources for a variety of research protocols. Downloads and organizes data for protocol teams as requested. Assists with planning nutrition research services and procedures related to future protocols. This includes: Menu design per protocol Creation of spreadsheets needed for energy or nutrient calculations and other relevant tracking Creation of educational and assessment materials for screening, patient education, diet assessment, and anthropometric measures Documentation of protocol procedures for nutrition staff Screens newly admitted patients and gains pertinent background information and diet history to assess the medical and research care priorities. Documents findings in the patient electronic medical record. Interviews patients to obtain pertinent background information, diet history, eating patterns, economic situation, cultural background, and other conditions which influence food preferences and preparation. Provides patient education in individual or group classes in accordance with clinical needs and research protocol requirements on topics such as prescribed diets, research diets, basic nutrition, drug-nutrient interactions, and nutrition research components of protocols. Contributes to program objectives through participation in workgroups, projects and quality teams. Serves as a first-line report for problem resolution from patients or staff. Documents problems, researches solutions, notifies supervisors as needed, and directs resolution. Attends nutrition and protocol team meetings as assigned Documents nutrition services in the electronic health record (Clinical Research Information System). Collects and organizes quality control data and projects which may include medical record documentation timeliness and accuracy, food weight accuracy, tray accuracy, enteral formula preparation accuracy, scale calibration, and research tool calibration. Investigates errors or factors reported via the Safety Tracking and Reporting System (STARS). Actively supports and participates in performance improvement activities. Assists with providing training and in-services for professional and nonprofessional staff, dietetic interns, students, and support personnel. Qualifications The contractor(s) must have: Bachelor's degree from an accredited university in Dietetics/Nutrition or related field. Professional knowledge of the science of nutrition and principles and procedures required to provide nutrition services to patients Skill in assessing dietary habits and nutritional status and the ability to apply this information to the diet prescription and to develop a dietary plan to meet the requirements of a given protocol or disease state Ability to instruct a patient/patient family members or provide group counseling about diet and demonstrated skill in influencing patient compliance

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