Registered Dietitian - Inpatient Liver
Listed compensation
$58k-$75k
The week · per this posting · Monday – Friday
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Job Description
Primary Location
Burnet Campus
Department: Nutrition Therapy
Shift: Day (United States of America)
Schedule: Full time
- Weekly Hours
- 40
- FTE
- 1
- Employee Status
- Regular
*Expected Starting Pay Range
$58,406.40 - $74,588.80
*Starting pay is based on experience, skills, and equity; exceptions may apply for highly qualified candidates. Additional pay (e. g., shift, on‑call, or weekend differentials) and benefits may apply. Annual pay may vary based on FTE status.
Job Responsibilities
Registered Dietitian for the Inpatient Liver Unit
Location: Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati OH 45229
Status: 40 hours/week during the Monday-Friday work week.
What We Have to Offer
Internationally Recognized: Cincinnati Children’s is nationally ranked in all pediatric specialties. For more than 15 years, we have been named a top-ranked pediatric hospital by U.S. News & World Report and are the #2 recipient of pediatric research grants from the National Institutes of Health.
Family-Centered Care: Dietitians work alongside a medical team of doctors, nurses, and other allied health professionals. We consider the family’s community setting and culture and how family members interact with nutrition and health.
Clinical Ladder: Designed to advance and recognize the knowledge, skills, experience, and leadership abilities of the staff within the Nutrition Therapy Division. Promotional pay opportunities available.
Benefits and Paid Time Off: Benefits start immediately. RDs can accrue 30 days of PTO each year; unused PTO rolls over. Additional PTO for some promotions.
What you will do as a Reg. Dietitian:
Provide personalized nutrition care: Assess each patient’s nutritional needs and develop practical care plans that reflect their medical needs, growth and development, family values, culture, and available resources.
Educate and empower families: Provide nutrition counseling and education that help patients and caregivers confidently follow the nutrition plan at home.
Monitor progress: Evaluate each patient’s response to the nutrition care plan, revise recommendations as needed and use current research to support high-quality practice.
Work as part of the care team: Partner with physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, and internal and community resources to coordinate care and improve outcomes for patients and families.
Support specialized programs: Provide medical nutrition therapy and nutrition expertise for assigned patients, program areas, division initiatives, and community-based efforts such as healthy weight and healthy eating programs.
Share your expertise: Explain pediatric nutrition principles to nutrition staff, care team members, and community partners, and help orient and educate new dietitians.
Guide and develop others: Orient, supervise, and direct diet technicians and interns, as applicable.
Grow professionally: Participate in committees, work groups, process-improvement activities, and learning opportunities that strengthen the department, hospital, and profession.
Support responsible operations: Complete productivity records, enter charges promptly, contribute to team projects, and take ownership of assigned work.
Job Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
- 0+ years of work experience in a related job discipline
- Registered Dietician, Licensed Dietitian in the state of Ohio
About Us
At Cincinnati Children’s, we come to work with one goal: to make children’s health better. We believe in a holistic team approach, both in caring for patients and their families, and in advancing science and discovery. We strive to do better and find energy and inspiration in our shared purpose. If you want to be the best you can be, you can do it at Cincinnati Children’s.
Cincinnati Children's Is
Recognized by U.S. News & World Report as a top 10 best Children's Hospitals in the nation for more than 15 years
- Consistently among the top 3 Children's Hospitals for National Institutes of Health (NIH) Funding
- Recognized as one of America’s Best Large Employers (2025), America’s Best Employers for New Grads (2025)
- One of the nation's America’s Most Innovative Companies as noted by Fortune
- Consistently certified as great place to work
- A Leading Disability Employer as noted by the National Organization on Disability
- Magnet® designated for the fourth consecutive time by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
We Embrace Innovation—Together. We believe in empowering our teams with the tools that help us work smarter and care better. That’s why we support the responsible use of artificial intelligence. By encouraging innovation, we’re creating space for new ideas, better outcomes, and a stronger future—for all of us.
Comprehensive job description provided upon request.
Cincinnati Children’s is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating an environment of dignity and respect for all our employees, patients, and families. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, genetic information, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. EEO/Veteran/Disability
Key Responsibilities
Provide personalized medical nutrition therapy and develop care plans for patients in the inpatient liver unit. Collaborate with a multidisciplinary medical team to monitor patient progress and educate families on nutrition goals.
Requirements
Requires a bachelor's degree in a related field and current licensure as a Registered Dietitian in the state of Ohio. No prior work experience is required for this position.
Qualifications
- Education
- Bachelor degree
Key Skills
Dietitian Career Context
Of the 42 active Clinical Nutrition listings this role was benchmarked against, 14% are remote, 29% have no call, 86% require no weekends.
In Wisconsin, the Clinical Nutrition weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$75k (27 salary observations; 106 listings), vs ~$78k nationally (2,400 salary observations; 8,204 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-01-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.
The cost-of-living index for Wisconsin is 94.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$66k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $71k in an average-cost state. 60.7% of Wisconsin clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Registered Dietitian - Inpatient Liver at Cincinnati Children's a 6.3 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Clinical Nutrition (Dietitian) — ranked against 3,208 active Clinical Nutrition (Dietitian) listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements.
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