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New Kent, Virginia

Registered Dietitian

DietitianFull-Time

Compensation

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Job Description

Responsibilities

Cumberland Hospital is now offering a $5,000 sign-on bonus for a full-time Dietitian!

Cumberland Hospital for Children and Adolescents, located in New Kent, Virginia, provides comprehensive medical, behavioral, rehabilitative, and educational services for children and adolescents ages 2 through 22 who are challenged by co-occurring medical and behavioral diagnoses.

Cumberland Hospital is one of the few specialty children’s hospitals providing dual treatment protocols for both medical and mental health issues. Cumberland includes a 62 bed Hospital Program, a 16 bed Inpatient Acute Program, and 30 bed Residential Treatment Program.

Our goal is to stabilize medical problems and help children develop positive behavioral coping strategies using an interdisciplinary approach.

Visit us online at: cumberlandhospital.com

The Registered Dietitan: initiates and completes nutritional screening and assessments of all assigned patients admitted to the hospital; determines appropriateness of tube feeding and/or diet order and provides appropriate recommendations to the medical staff for adjustments to meet patient needs; interprets, adjusts and checks accuracy of diet orders for kitchen staff so that appropriate food items are prepared; provides nutritional education and counseling to all patients and families; provides services to residential units on a consult basis; participates in the discharge planning/meeting of patients with specific nutritional concerns and goals

Benefit Highlights

  • Challenging and rewarding work environment
  • Competitive Compensation
  • Tuition Reimbursement Program
  • Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plan
  • 401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan
  • Generous Paid Time Off
  • Career development opportunities within UHS and its 300+ Subsidiaries

If you would like to learn more about this position before applying, please contact Madison Reddell, Clinical Recruiter, at Madison.Reddell@uhsinc.com or by phone at (484)-584-2790.

About Universal Health Services

One of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance, growing since its inception into a Fortune 500® corporation.

Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has 101,500 employees. Through its subsidiaries, UHS operates 29 acute care inpatient facilities, 346 behavioral health inpatient facilities and 168 outpatient and other facilities in 40 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Dietetics or Food and Nutrition required. Registered Dietitan license required. Experience working with children and adolescents who experience behavior dysfunction secondary to brain injury, autism, and other developmental disabilities, chronic medical disorders and other severe and chronic impairments, and their caregivers preferred.

EEO Statement

All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.

Notice

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Qualifications

Education
Bachelor degree
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Nutritional assessmentDietary planningTube feeding managementPatient counselingInterdisciplinary collaborationClinical documentationMedical nutrition therapyPediatric nutrition

Dietitian Career Context

Of the 50 active Clinical Nutrition listings this role was benchmarked against, 34% are remote, 30% have no call, 78% require no weekends.

In Virginia, the Clinical Nutrition weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$75k (85 salary observations; 258 listings), vs ~$78k nationally (2,475 salary observations; 8,466 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)). 61.1% of Virginia clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Top Dietitian Jobs

40 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution29 jobs

3
<$75k
5
$75k-85k
7
$85k-95k
12
$95k-105k
2
$105k+

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks31 jobs · 29 employers

401k / retirement match
74% this job
CME allowance
48%
Sign-on bonus
42% this job
Loan repayment
10%
Relocation assistance
6%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

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$35.06-$54.43/hr
#2

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$72k-$106k
#3

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$40-$50/hr
#4

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.0this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Clinical Nutrition (Dietitian) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 3,208 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in New Kent

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$419k
Residents’ average commute
32 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
97.9
State income tax
Up to 5.8%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Richmond, VA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About UHS

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Benefits & Perks

$5,000 sign-on bonus
Tuition Reimbursement Program
Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plan
401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan
Generous Paid Time Off
Career development opportunities