Registered Dietitian, Per Diem
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Job Description
Could you be our next Dietitian at Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital?
Why work as a Dietitian with Main Line Health?
Make an Impact! As a Dietitian, you will plan and deliver nutritional care to patients of various age categories by screening patients based on admission diagnosis and providing them with timely intervention as consulted. Use your effective communication skills to communicate clinical findings via documentation as well as educate patient and family members as appropriate.
Develop and Grow your Career! You are encouraged to attend MLH Education & Development Classes that offer a variety of relevant courses, tools, and resources to help achieve your personal and professional goals. On-going feedback and career development are provided by your Manager through the use of performance appraisals and 1:1 communication to further develop yourself professionally.
Join the Team! Like our patients, the Main Line Health Family encompasses a wide range of backgrounds and abilities. Just as each of our patients requires a personalized care plan, each of our employees, physicians, and volunteers, bring distinctive talents to Main Line Health. Regardless of our unique design, we all share a purpose: providing superior service and care.
Position-Specific Benefits include: We offer a number of employee discounts to various activities, services and vendors... And parking is always free!
Position: Dietitian
Shift: Per Diem; Primarily days with weekend rotation as required
Experience
Minimum of two years experience as a clinical dietitian required.
Education
Bachelors of Science degree in Dietetics required.
Licensures/Certifications
Registered dietitian status with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and licensed in the state Pennsylvania.
Key Responsibilities
The Dietitian will plan and deliver nutritional care to patients by screening them based on admission diagnoses and providing timely interventions. They are also responsible for communicating clinical findings through documentation and educating patients and their families.
Requirements
Candidates must hold a Bachelor of Science degree in Dietetics and possess at least two years of clinical experience. Additionally, they must be a Registered Dietitian with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and hold a valid license in the state of Pennsylvania.
Qualifications
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Dietitian Career Context
Of the 50 active Clinical Nutrition listings this role was benchmarked against, 38% are remote, 26% have no call, 70% require no weekends.
In Pennsylvania, the Clinical Nutrition weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$78k (70 salary observations; 305 listings), vs ~$78k nationally (2,400 salary observations; 8,206 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 Pennsylvania is 97.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.7% of Pennsylvania clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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- Includes weekends
Living in Malvern
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $609k
- Typical market rent
- $2,554/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 25 min
- Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
- 102.6
- State income tax
- Up to 3.1%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
BEA 2024 · Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.