Clinical Dietitian - Wellness Center
Listed compensation
$32.19-$43.46/hr
The week · per this posting
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Job Description
Schedule: Part Time Weekdays (Mon, Wed, Thurs – 8hr days)
Location: Wellness Center
Hourly Range: $32.19-$43.46
Your Experience Matters
Fauquier Health is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network with facilities coast to coast. We are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others.
As a Clinical Dietician on the team, you’re embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier ®. Join us on this meaningful journey where your skills, compassion and dedication will make a remarkable difference in the lives of those we serve.
More About Our Team
Fauquier Health’s Wellness Center offers a Pritikin Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation program within a wellness-focused environment, and our Clinical Dietitians play an important role in educating and supporting our members throughout their wellness journey. In addition to providing 1:1 dietary consultations as part of cardiac rehabilitation, our dietitians lead educational workshops, create and present educational videos, and participate in our hands-on Cooking School.
Specialized education will be provided through Pritikin and must be successfully completed in order to teach Pritikin programming.
How you’ll contribute
A Clinical Dietician Who Excels in This Role
- Assesses patient's nutritional status and needs. Develops and implements patient care plans and assesses patient responses.
- Collaborates with physicians, nursing, pharmacy and other healthcare team members/departments to determine, coordinate, and provide medical nutrition therapy.
- Develops and provides education, training, consulting, and counseling services throughout the organization and for the community on topics including eating disorders, weight loss, and dietary modifications for healthy lifestyles.
Why Join Us
We believe that investing in our employees is the first step to providing excellent patient care. In addition to your base compensation, this position
also offers:
- Comprehensive Benefits: Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage — with medical plans starting at just $10 per pay period — tailored benefit options for part-time and PRN employees, and more.
- Financial Protection & PTO: Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, and paid time off.
- Financial & Career Growth: Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.
- Employee Well-being: Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).
- Professional Development: Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.
What We’re Looking for - Position Specific
Applicants should have licensure in Virginia as Registered Dietician (new hires have 6 months to obtain).
- Bachelor’s degree in dietetics or nutrition is required.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) is required within first week of hire.
More About Fauquier Health
Fauquier Health is a 97-bed acute care hospital offering surgical services (including robotics), a 24-hour Emergency Department, extensive medical imaging capabilities, an Intensive Care Unit and much, much more.
The Fauquier Health system offers patient care for a variety of specialty services including Orthopedics and Spine, a Cardiac Catheterization Lab, and robotic-assisted surgery. The fourth floor of the hospital is devoted to our Family Birthing Center and Intermediate Care Nursery.
Fauquier Health is proud to be nationally recognized as a Top General Hospital by the Leapfrog group with a dedication to quality, patient-centered care. We are also accredited by the Joint Commission, a certified Primary Stroke Center, Center for Excellence in Joint Replacement, and an accredited Chest Pain Center.
EEOC Statement
Fauquier Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Fauquier Health is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment.
Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier.
Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities.
We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.
We employ and provide care to people from all walks of life. We are committed to promoting healing, providing hope, preserving dignity and producing value with an inclusive workforce in which diversity is leveraged, respected, and reflective of the patients, family members, customers and team members we serve.
Key Responsibilities
The Clinical Dietitian assesses patient nutritional needs and develops care plans while collaborating with the healthcare team to provide medical nutrition therapy. They also lead educational workshops and participate in hands-on cooking programs to support community wellness.
Requirements
Applicants must hold a Bachelor’s degree in dietetics or nutrition and possess or obtain Virginia licensure as a Registered Dietitian within six months. Basic Life Support (BLS) certification is required within the first week of employment.
Qualifications
- Education
- Professional certificate or licensure
Key Skills
Dietitian Career Context
Of the 42 active Clinical Nutrition listings this role was benchmarked against, 36% are remote, 19% have no call, 76% require no weekends.
In Virginia, the Clinical Nutrition weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$75k (85 salary observations; 258 listings), vs ~$78k nationally (2,478 salary observations; 8,477 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).
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Clinical Dietitian - Wellness Center at Lifepoint Health a 6.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 35% of all Clinical Nutrition dietitian listings evaluated on our platform. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements.
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