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Shriners Children's
Chicago, Illinois

Clinical Dietitian

DietitianPart-Time

Pay as listed: $35.37-$53.05/hr · part-time · Chicago, Illinois.

Listed compensation

$35.37-$53.05/hr

The week · per this posting

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Job Description

Company Overview

Shriners Children’s is an organization that respects, supports, and values each other. Named as the 2025 best mid-sized employer by Forbes, we are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact.

We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience define us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.

With 20+ hospitals, outpatient clinics, ambulatory care centers and outreach locations across the globe, we provide excellent care to children up to age 18 regardless of their family’s ability to pay or insurance status. Please click here to learn more about our locations.

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Job Description

Shriners Children's Chicago has an opportunity for a part-time Clinical Dietician. In this position you will be responsible for developing and implementing nutrition care plans for all hospitalized patients. Functions as an integral part of the interdisciplinary team.

Contributes to the values and mission of the hospital by promoting best practices in nutrition, participating in performance improvement initiatives and optimizing patient outcomes through education and research.

Key Responsibilities

Develops and implements nutrition care plans including initial assessment of patients’ nutritional status, patient risk and estimated nutrient requirements.

  • Determines appropriate route and composition of nutritional therapy.
  • Determines and ensures use of appropriate parameters to monitor patient response to nutritional therapy and makes modifications as necessary to achieve desired outcome.
  • Performs metabolic cart studies to identify patient energy requirement.
  • Determines criteria for patient nutrition education and provides nutrition counseling to patients consistent with their comprehensive needs and long term goals.
  • Collaborates with Care Coordinator to address special nutritional needs for patients discharge planning.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Dietetics or Food and Nutrition Science
  • Current Illinois Clinical Dietician license
  • 3 years clinical experience
  • 3 years nutrition support experience

Preferred Qualifications

  • Master's in Dietetics or Food and Nutrition Science
  • Pediatric Clinical Nutrition

The pay range for this position is $35.37 - $53.05.

Compensation is determined based on years of relevant experience and departmental equity.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a Bachelor's degree in Dietetics or Food and Nutrition Science and possess a current Illinois Clinical Dietician license. The role requires at least 3 years of clinical experience and 3 years of nutrition support experience.

Qualifications

Education
Bachelor degree
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Clinical assessmentInterdisciplinary collaborationPatient educationPediatric nutrition

Dietitian Career Context

Of the 40 active Clinical Nutrition listings this role was benchmarked against, 35% are remote, 30% have no call, 70% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Illinois is 100.0 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$92k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $92k in an average-cost state. 62.6% of Illinois clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks24 jobs

401k / retirement match
63%
Sign-on bonus
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CME allowance
33%
PSLF eligible
4%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.0this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Clinical Nutrition (Dietitian) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 3,187 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Chicago

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$356k
Typical market rent
$2,342/mo
Residents’ average commute
33 min
State income tax
Up to 5%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.