{"id":5861,"date":"2024-04-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/?page_id=5861"},"modified":"2026-06-27T19:05:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T02:05:39","slug":"dietitian-1-reg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/dietitian-1-reg\/","title":{"rendered":"Dietitian 1 \/ Dietitian Reg"},"content":{"rendered":"

UW CODE AND REPRESENTATIVE GROUP<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n
Job Title<\/th>\nRepresentative group<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Dietitian 1<\/td>\n18945 (E S SEIU 1199NW HMC SW\/Dietitian)
\n18940 (NE S SEIU 1199NW HMC SW\/Dietitian)
\n23209 (NE H NI SEIU 1199NW HMC SW\/Dietitian)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dietitian Reg<\/td>\n21324 (NE H SEIU 1199NW UWMC Northwest Professional)
\n22961 (NE H NI SEIU 1199NW UWMC Northwest Professional)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

BASIC FUNCTION<\/strong><\/p>\n

Performs professional level nutritional assessment, education and medical nutritional therapy and\/or directs others in professional administrative dietetic services.<\/p>\n

DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Under general supervision, provides for nutritional assessment, management and education of patients, and\/or directs a food service system.<\/p>\n

TYPICAL WORK<\/strong><\/p>\n

Assesses special nutritional needs of patients, residents and clients;<\/p>\n

Assesses, evaluates, and prescribes modified\/therapeutic diets;<\/p>\n

Acts as liaison between clinical dietitians and other clinical professional staff;<\/p>\n

Recommends to medical staff medication use or dosage to optimize nutritional therapy and address food and drug interaction for designated medications;<\/p>\n

Develops criteria and assesses patients with high risk nutritional issues (such as oncology, diabetes, dementia, eating disorders, allergies, substance abuse, etc.);<\/p>\n

Consults with occupational therapists, speech pathologists and\/or nursing staff to determine safe food textures to prevent choking\/aspiration;<\/p>\n

Serves as a member of an interdisciplinary team and\/or participates in the quality assurance process;<\/p>\n

Audits patient\u2019s records as needed to ensure dietary compliance with patient nutritional needs;<\/p>\n

Formulates modified diet menus based on physician’s recommendation for patient; prepares mechanically soft, diabetic, sodium restricted, reduction, and other therapeutic dietetic menus; interprets diet prescriptions;<\/p>\n

Supervises the preparation and serving of special or modified diets; confers with cooks, bakers, and meat cutters regarding their available time for special diet work and kind of food necessary for special diets;<\/p>\n

Sets up and maintains diet recipe file; develops and modifies recipes;<\/p>\n

Inspects food being served for compliance with policies and standards governing proper proportioning, sanitation, and food handling;<\/p>\n

Trains cooks, food service personnel, patients or students in therapeutic meal preparation;<\/p>\n

Maintains case records such as caloric intake and nutritional histories for individual patients; maintains dietary efficiency within budget constraints; prepares reports;<\/p>\n

Coordinates and evaluates food production, food distribution and service systems;<\/p>\n

Integrates nutritional care program with food production and delivery; merchandises food in both personnel and patient areas;<\/p>\n

Establishes and maintains policies and procedures regarding such things as standards of food production and service, sanitation, safety and security, food service system goals;<\/p>\n

Utilizes computerized systems in the evaluation of nutritional care and food control processes;<\/p>\n

Develops, organizes, implements and evaluates nutrition education for patients; arranges discharge nutrition care plans with outside agencies;<\/p>\n

Serves as a consultant on nutrition care as a member of a health care team;<\/p>\n

Implements and monitors all state, federal, local and JCAH standards for dietary departments;<\/p>\n

Performs related duties as required;<\/p>\n

May supervise or direct the work of others.<\/p>\n

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Bachelor’s degree involving major study in food and nutrition or dietetics<\/p>\n

AND<\/p>\n

Registration as a Dietitian by the American Dietetic Association<\/p>\n

OR<\/p>\n

Eligible for registration at the time of hire and pass the registration examination within one year of date of hire.<\/p>\n

Equivalent education and\/or experience may substitute for minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license, certification, and\/or registration.<\/p>\n

CLASSIFICATION HISTORY<\/strong><\/p>\n

07\/16\/2019: Class adopted for UW contract classified staff per PERC decision to add this title to the SEIU Healthcare 1199NW Social Worker bargaining unit (Case #130658-E-18). Incorporates the work of UW classified non-union job code 16005, Dietitian 1\/Washington State Job Code 311E.
\n01\/01\/2020: Add SEIU 1199NW UWMC-NW job profiles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UW CODE AND REPRESENTATIVE GROUP Job Title Representative group Dietitian 1 18945 (E S SEIU 1199NW HMC SW\/Dietitian) 18940 (NE S SEIU 1199NW HMC SW\/Dietitian) 23209 (NE H NI SEIU 1199NW HMC SW\/Dietitian) Dietitian Reg 21324 (NE H SEIU 1199NW UWMC Northwest Professional) 22961 (NE H NI SEIU 1199NW UWMC Northwest Professional) BASIC FUNCTION Performs professional level nutritional assessment, education and medical nutritional therapy and\/or directs others in professional administrative dietetic services. DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS Under general supervision, provides for nutritional…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-5861","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10863,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5861\/revisions\/10863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}