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Inova Health System
Falls Church, Virginia

Registered Dietitian Adult Nutrition

DietitianIncludes weekendsNo nightsFull-Time

Compensation

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The week · per this posting · Monday – Friday

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Posted 7mo ago

Job Description

Inova Fairfax Hospital is seeking a self-motivated, high performing Clinical Registered Dietitian to provide world-class nutrition care for our adult population. This role is full-time day shift (40 hrs/week) Monday-Friday with rotating weekends and holidays.

Our team is a high performing clinical nutrition team that enjoys working closely with the interdisciplinary team to ensure optimal patient care and mentoring and training new team members. From placing feeding tubes to managing parenteral nutrition to conducting NFPEs, we love what we do and are looking for a team player who is dedicated to inpatient clinical nutrition to join our team.

We offer great pay based on experience! Plus, don’t forget about our other amazing benefits and perks!

Inova is consistently ranked a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.

Inova Featured Benefits

  • Committed to Team Member Health: offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.
  • Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions – starting on your first day.
  • Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.
  • Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.
  • Work/Life Balance: offering paid time off, paid parental leave and more.

Job Responsibilities

  • The Registered Dietitian provides safe and therapeutic nutritional care in a comprehensive and systematic manner.
  • Provides clinical services and acts as a resource to physicians, nurses and other professional healthcare team members, to provide patients with optimum nutritional care.
  • Coordinates the nutrition care plan with the physician and other healthcare providers while serving as a resource in the integration of the nutrition care plan into the comprehensive plan of care for the patient.
  • Formulates an individualized nutrition plan of care based on assessment findings and interpreting trends in patient populations to achieve best practice.
  • May perform additional duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree minimum if licensed before 1/1/2024; Dietitians registered after 1/1/2024 must hold a master’s degree

Certification

  • Registered Dietitian (RD) required within 3 Months of hire
  • Basic Life Support from American Heart Association required within 3 Months of hire

Preferred Qualifications

  • Inpatient clinical experience
  • Adult Nutrition experience
  • RD Certification completed before start

We are Inova, Northern Virginia’s leading nonprofit healthcare provider. Every day, our 26,000+ team members provide world-class healthcare to the communities we serve. Our people are the reason we're a national leader in healthcare safety, quality and patient experience.

And from best-in-class facilities to professional development opportunities, we support them at every step. At Inova, we're constantly striving to be ever better — to shape a more compassionate future for healthcare.

Inova Health System is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, pregnancy (including childbirth, pregnancy-related conditions and lactation), race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristics protected by law.

Key Responsibilities

The Registered Dietitian is responsible for providing safe and therapeutic nutritional care in a comprehensive and systematic manner, acting as a resource to physicians and other healthcare team members. This includes coordinating the nutrition care plan and formulating individualized plans based on assessment findings and population trends.

Requirements

Candidates must meet specific educational requirements based on registration date, requiring a minimum of a Bachelor's degree or a Master's degree, and must obtain Registered Dietitian (RD) certification and Basic Life Support certification within three months of hire. Preferred qualifications include inpatient clinical and adult nutrition experience.

Qualifications

Education
Master's degree (postgraduate degree)

Certifications

BLS

Key Skills

Interdisciplinary Team CollaborationNutrition Plan FormulationAssessment Findings Interpretation

Dietitian Career Context

Of the 50 active Clinical Nutrition listings this role was benchmarked against, 40% are remote, 30% have no call, 74% require no weekends.

In Virginia, the Clinical Nutrition weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$75k (82 salary observations; 250 listings), vs ~$78k nationally (2,424 salary observations; 8,302 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 Registered Dietitian Adult Nutrition at Inova Health System a 6.4 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 25% in Clinical Nutrition (Dietitian) — ranked against 3,172 active Clinical Nutrition (Dietitian) listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no night shifts.

Top Dietitian Jobs

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks28 jobs

401k / retirement match
75% this job
CME allowance
43%
Sign-on bonus
32%
Loan repayment
4% this job
Relocation assistance
4%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.0this job 6.4
Better work-life than 80% of Clinical Nutrition (Dietitian) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 3,172 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No nights
  • On-site
  • Includes weekends

Living in Falls Church

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$781k
Typical market rent
$2,574/mo
Residents’ average commute
29 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
108.9
State income tax
Up to 5.8%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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

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About Inova Health System

Hospitals and Health Care
Falls Church, Virginia
10,000+ employees

Benefits & Perks

Medical, dental, vision coverage
Robust wellness program
Retirement match (first 5% of eligible contributions)
Tuition and student loan assistance up to $5,250/year education, $10,000 student loans
25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions per person per year at no cost
Paid time off
Paid parental leave