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Albany Medical Center
Town of Bethlehem, New York

Clinical Dietitian - Bariatric Program

DietitianIncludes weekendsNo nightsFull-Time

Listed compensation

$59k-$89k

The week · per this posting · weekdays assumed

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Posted 1mo ago

Job Description

Department/Unit

HBD - Surgery Bariatric

Work Shift

Day (United States of America)

Salary Range

  • $59,066.00 - $88,599.00
  • Clinical Dietitian
  • Bariatric Program
  • Albany, NY

Responsible for providing comprehensive, high quality nutrition care to patients throughout the organization. Primary area of focus includes the assessment and care of patients determined to be malnourished or at risk for malnutrition. Staff will serve as role models by practicing exemplary behaviors when working with patients, visitors and fellow staff members.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities Include

  • Maintain ethics standards within the professional and hospital guidelines.
  • Design and implements individualized nutrition care plans for hospitalized and ambulatory patients across the life span, considering cultural and religious diversity.
  • Prioritizes patient caseload based on assigned level of risk.
  • Collaborates daily with interdisciplinary care teams on nutrition care plan development in the context of the medical management.
  • May be asked to assist with orientation and training of new level 1 dietitians and nutrition assistants
  • Provides cross-coverage of RD assignments as needed.
  • Participates in weekend & holiday clinical nutrition coverage.
  • Complete productivity data.

Participates in clinical team by providing input to team decisions, facilitating open communication among the group, and by attending all team meetings.

Participates in service-specific graduate medical education and other educational opportunities (after 1 year).

  • Assists with data collection and projects as requested.
  • Practices within the ADA scope of practice.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Registered Dietitian as delineated by the Commission on Dietetic Registration.
  • Maintenance of continuing education requirements for dietetic registration.
  • Experience (see also competency based objectives and level advancement criteria)
  • Thank you for your interest in Albany Med Health System!
  • Albany Med Health System is an equal opportunity employer.

This role may require access to information considered sensitive to Albany Med Health System, its patients, affiliates, and partners, including but not limited to HIPAA Protected Health Information and other information regulated by Federal and New York State statutes. Workforce members are expected to ensure that:

Access to information is based on a “need to know” and is the minimum necessary to properly perform assigned duties. Use or disclosure shall not exceed the minimum amount of information needed to accomplish an intended purpose. Reasonable efforts, consistent with Albany Med Health System policies and standards, shall be made to ensure that information is adequately protected from unauthorized access and modification.

Key Responsibilities

The Clinical Dietitian is responsible for designing and implementing individualized nutrition care plans for hospitalized and ambulatory patients. They collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to manage patients at risk for malnutrition and participate in weekend and holiday clinical coverage.

Requirements

Candidates must be a Registered Dietitian as delineated by the Commission on Dietetic Registration. The role requires the ability to maintain professional ethics and adhere to hospital guidelines regarding patient care and data privacy.

Key Skills

Malnutrition assessmentPatient caseload managementInterdisciplinary collaborationPatient educationHIPAA complianceClinical documentation

Dietitian Career Context

Of the 50 active Clinical Nutrition listings this role was benchmarked against, 10% are remote, 26% have no call, 86% require no weekends.

In New York, the Clinical Nutrition weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$83k (129 salary observations; 331 listings), vs ~$78k nationally (1,680 salary observations; 8,126 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 New York is 107.9 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$74k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $68k in an average-cost state. 64.6% of New York clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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  • No nights
  • Includes weekends