Registered Dietitian

DietitianFull-Time

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Job Description

Hospital Name: CoxHealth Rehabiliation in Partnership with Select MedicalPosition: Registered DietitianLocation: Ozark, MOSchedule: Full-time

Our Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospital is committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care to best address the medical, physical, emotional, and vocational challenges for individuals with brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, neurological disorders, orthopedic issues, amputation, and multiple traumas.

  • At our company, we support your career growth and personal well-being.
  • Start Strong: Extensive and thorough orientation program to ensure a smooth transition into our setting

Recharge & Refresh: Generous PTO and Paid Sick Time for full-time team members to maintain a healthy work-life balance

Your Health Matters: Comprehensive medical/RX, health, vision, employee assistance program (EAP), and dental plan offerings for full-time team members

Invest in Your Future: Company-matching 401(k) retirement plan, as well as life and disability protection for full-time team members

Your Impact Matters: Join a team of over 44,000 committed to providing exceptional patient care

Responsibilities

Provides quality nutrition services including, but not limited to, screening, initial assessment, re-assessments, nutrition counseling and education, therapeutic diet calculations, and calorie counts. Develops an appropriate nutritional care plan.

Considers religious, cultural, and ethical factors when completing nutrition assessments and creating plan of care.

Evaluates potential food/drug interactions, and/or herb/supplement interactions. Provides nutrition education/counseling as appropriate.

Communicates and implements the nutritional plan of care with the interdisciplinary care team.

Attend Interdisciplinary Care meetings, when assigned, for the development of patient care plans. Participates with the interdisciplinary team in various medical rounds (as available at the facility) i. e., wound rounds, or dysphagia rounds.

Develops and implements educational programs for patients and staff. Works with the patient to identify a nutrition education plan and sets achievable goals.

Keeps current with nutritional practices and theories. Maintains current ADA requirements, (i. e., Professional Portfolio, self-development, and continuing education classes.)

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • Current state licensure/certification, if required by state.
  • Current registration by the Commission on Dietetics Registration.
  • One (1) year of work experience in a facility setting with clinical responsibilities or equivalent.
  • Additional Data
  • Equal Opportunity Employer/including Disabled/Veterans

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure

Key Skills

Nutrition assessmentNutritional care planningPatient educationClinical nutritionDysphagia managementWound care rounds

Dietitian Career Context

Of the 50 active Clinical Nutrition listings this role was benchmarked against, 34% are remote, 36% have no call, 76% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Missouri is 90.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.1% of Missouri clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Clinical Nutrition pay on WeekdayDoc is down 2.7% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

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Salary Distribution26 jobs · 25 employers

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$80k-95k
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$110k-125k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks21 jobs

401k / retirement match
67% this job
CME allowance
52% this job
Sign-on bonus
38%
Relocation assistance
10%
Visa sponsorship
5%

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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 3,176 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Ozark

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$282k
Typical market rent
$1,419/mo
Residents’ average commute
24 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
88.6
State income tax
Up to 5.3%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Springfield, MO metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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

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About CoxHealth Rehabilitation Hospital

Hospitals and Health Care
Mechanicsburg, PA
10,000+ employees

Benefits & Perks

Extensive orientation program
Generous PTO
Paid Sick Time
Comprehensive medical/RX
Health, vision, dental plan
Employee assistance program (EAP)
Company-matching 401(k) retirement plan
Life and disability protection