Clinical Dietitian
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Job Description
- Shift’s Available: Days
- Hours: 8 hour shift
- Employment Type: Per Diem (PD / PRN)
- Location: Riverview Regional Medical Center – Gadsden, AL
We are seeking a Clinical Dietitian, also referred to as a Registered Dietitian. The Registered Dietitian (RD) in our hospital designs and implements nutrition care plans for patients, tailoring diets to medical needs.
Clinical Dietitian’s assess nutritional status, monitor progress, educate patients and families, collaborate with healthcare teams, and ensure dietary staff prepares meals that meet safety and health standards. The Registered Dietitian’s goal is to improve patient outcomes through effective nutrition management. This position is on a per diem basis, meaning PRN as needed.
Responsibilities
Essential Duties and Responsibilities (includes, but not limited to):
Nutritional assessment: evaluate patients' dietary needs based on medical conditions, lab results, and health history
Develop meal plans: create individualized nutrition plans to support recovery, manage chronic diseases, or address specific conditions like diabetes, heart disease, or malnutrition
Track patients’ progress, adjust meal plans as needed, and ensure nutritional goals are met
Work closely with doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to integrate nutrition into patient care plans
Educate patients and their families about proper nutrition education, special diets, or post-discharge meal planning
Ensure meals prepared by the dietary staff align with prescribed diets and safety standards
Qualifications
- Before we go any further, we do have some deal-breakers. You must have:
- Registered Dietitian (RD) license
- Minimum 1-2 years of experience in a clinical setting providing patient nutritional care
Additional Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Strong understanding of medical nutrition therapy (MNT)
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills
- Ability to educate and motivate patients and families on healthy eating habits
- Proficient in electronic medical records (EMR) systems
- Full benefits at Prime Healthcare: primehealthcare.com
Employment Status: Per Diem
Shift: Days
Equal Employment Opportunity
Company is an equal employment opportunity employer.
Company prohibits discrimination against any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age (subject to applicable law), disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
The Company also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. Know Your Rights: eeoc.gov
Key Skills
Dietitian Career Context
Of the 50 active Clinical Nutrition listings this role was benchmarked against, 36% are remote, 34% have no call, 80% require no weekends.
In Alabama, the Clinical Nutrition weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$75k (13 salary observations; 89 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 Alabama is 88.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.3% of Alabama clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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