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Reno, Nevada

CLINICAL DIETITIAN, Per Diem

DietitianPer Diem

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Job Description

Responsibilities

Sierra Medical Center is part of Northern Nevada Health System, a regional multi-facility system that has excelled at offering quality care to residents of the greater Truckee Meadows. Sierra Medical Center is a 170-bed acute care hospital offering services including 24/7 ER care, cardiology, oncology, labor and delivery, level II NICU, surgical and orthopedic services, and much more. Learn more at northernnevadahealth.com

What we at Sierra Medical Center value:

  • Compassion: We treat everyone with kindness and warmth because we genuinely care about every patient, employee and physician like they are family.
  • Empathy: We put ourselves in our patient’s shoes and deliver clinical care with a personalized touch.
  • Teamwork: We foster a caring and friendly work environment to bring the best possible outcomes in our patient’s lives.
  • Quality: We strive to provide excellence in clinical care.
  • Ethics: We conduct our business with the highest ethical and moral standards.
  • Respect: We promise to honor the dignity, individuality and rights of everyone.
  • Service Excellence: We provide personalized and professional service that exceeds the expectations of those we serve.
  • Innovation: We continually invest in technology and process improvements to develop new and better ways of delivering clinical care

Learn more at northernnevadahealth.com

Job summary: Plans and delivers nutritional care to patients according to the physicians’ diagnoses. Performs as a member of the multidisciplinary care team. Supervises nutritional services diet clerks and other support personnel. Exercises independent judgment under the general supervision of the Nutritional Services Director.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

  • Assesses patients’ nutritional status according to established standards
  • Obtains necessary information from the medical record to determine patient’s nutritional status.
  • Develops nutritional care plans based on the cultural orientation of the patient

Evaluates the results of nutritional intervention on the patient’s nutritional status to determine the need to revise the nutritional care plan.

Benefits for Full and Part Time Employees

  • Challenging and rewarding work environment
  • Competitive Compensation & Generous Paid Time Off
  • Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plans
  • 401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan

Tuition Reimbursement/Repayment Program

  • Career development opportunities within UHS and its 300+ Subsidiaries!
  • More information is available on our Benefits Guest Website: benefits.uhsguest.com

If you would like to learn more about the position before applying, please contact Michelle Lopez-Reyes, Recruiter @ michelle.lopezreyes@uhsinc.com.

About Universal Health Services

One of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance.

During the year, UHS was again recognized as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune; and listed in Forbes ranking of America’s Largest Public Companies.

Operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located all over the U.S. States, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom. uhs.com

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in course work approved by the Commission of the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics (AND) and completion of dietetic internship and be eligible to take the national examination for registered dietitian

NV Dietitian licensure or within 1 year with Provisional RD License in place

Proof of current registration approved by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) within 1 year.

EEO Statement

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

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Qualifications

Education
Bachelor degree

Key Skills

Nutritional assessmentClinical dieteticsNutritional care planningMultidisciplinary team collaborationPatient careMedical record analysisDietary intervention evaluation

Dietitian Career Context

Of the 50 active Clinical Nutrition listings this role was benchmarked against, 46% are remote, 22% have no call, 68% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Nevada is 100.0 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 57.5% of Nevada clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Location & Logistics

Nevada has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states.

Top contract/1099 Dietitian Jobs

37 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution30 jobs

6
<$85k
14
$85k-100k
6
$100k-115k
4
$115k-130k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks25 jobs

401k / retirement match
72% this job
CME allowance
52%
Sign-on bonus
28%
Relocation assistance
4%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

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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 3,186 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Reno

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$547k
Typical market rent
$1,967/mo
Residents’ average commute
20 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
101.0
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Reno, NV metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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

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Benefits & Perks

Competitive Compensation
Generous Paid Time Off
Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plans
401(K) with company match
Discounted stock plan
Tuition Reimbursement/Repayment Program
Career development opportunities