Job Requirement
Diploma in either Community Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition or Nutrition and Dietetics or its equivalent qualification from a recognized training institution;
Registration by the Council of the Institute of Nutritionists and Dieticians (CIND);
Job Description
Providing nutrition services in health care facilities;
Conducting nutrition assessments;
Undertaking ward rounds and supervising administration of inpatient feeding;
Collating and analyzing nutrition data;
Counselling patients with specific nutritional needs;
Implementing and monitoring outpatient and inpatient supplementary and therapeutic feeding programmes;
Promoting maternal, infant and young children feeding programmes;
Conducting nutrition health education and demonstrations;
Disseminating nutrition and dietetic information, education and communication materials;
Facilitating district health and nutrition steering groups;
Supervising and implementing baby friendly hospital initiatives;
Assessing and reviewing nutrition of referral cases;
Overseeing the nutrition management of patients in health care facilities; preparing monthly nutrition reports in health care facilities.