Dietitian (Full Time, Lynchburg General Hospital)
Listed compensation
$62k-$94k
The week · per this posting · weekdays assumed
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Job Description
Provides medical nutrition therapy using evidence-based practice to optimize patient care. Provides consultation to the healthcare team to ensure efficient and effective nutrition care to patients. Monitors and evaluates patient care and nutrition outcomes on an ongoing basis.
Educates patients, healthcare members, dietetic interns, and members of the community. Participates in ongoing process improvement activities with the Nutrition Services Department. Maintains customer service, patient-centered approach at all times when fulfilling job duties. Meets the qualifications to provide care to patients in the assigned clinical areas.
Key Responsibilities
Provides medical nutrition therapy and consultation to the healthcare team to optimize patient outcomes. Educates patients, staff, and the community while participating in departmental process improvement activities.
Requirements
Requires a bachelor's or master's degree in Dietetics or Nutrition from an accredited program. Candidates must have completed a CDR-approved internship or be registration-eligible.
Qualifications
- Education
- Master's degree (postgraduate degree)
Key Skills
Dietitian Career Context
Of the 47 active Clinical Nutrition listings this role was benchmarked against, 13% are remote, 19% have no call, 83% require no weekends.
In Virginia, the Clinical Nutrition weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$75k (82 salary observations; 250 listings), vs ~$78k nationally (2,428 salary observations; 8,305 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 Virginia is 101.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$78k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $77k in an average-cost state. 61.1% of Virginia clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
Centra Health holds silver-tier status on WeekdayDoc's Top Employers work-life index, composite score 70/100, 47 active listings.
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Living in Lynchburg
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $281k≈ 4.5× annual pay
- Typical market rent
- $1,283/mo≈ 25% of gross pay
- Residents’ average commute
- 17 min
- Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
- 89.4
- State income tax
- Up to 5.8%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
BEA 2024 · Lynchburg, VA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.
Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.