Dietitian - As Needed (PRN)

DietitianPer Diem

Compensation

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Job Description

Use Your Expertise to Promote Health, Healing, and Recovery.

Join CenterPointe Hospital of Columbia as a PRN Registered Dietitian and play a vital role in supporting patients through expert nutrition care.

In this position, you'll assess nutritional needs, develop individualized dietary plans, provide nutrition counseling, and collaborate with physicians and interdisciplinary treatment teams to support positive patient outcomes.

If you're passionate about helping others improve their health through nutrition, we'd love to have you on our team.

What You'll Do

  • Conduct nutritional assessments and develop individualized nutrition care plans
  • Provide nutrition counseling and education to patients and families
  • Review and approve patient menus, therapeutic diets, and nutritional supplements
  • Collaborate with physicians, nursing staff, and treatment teams regarding patient nutritional needs
  • Monitor patient progress and modify nutrition plans as needed
  • Participate in treatment team meetings and patient care planning
  • Review menus and ensure compliance with nutritional, safety, and quality standards
  • Provide support and coverage as needed to meet facility and patient care needs

What You'll Bring

  • Bachelor's degree in Dietetics, Nutrition, or a related field from an accredited university
  • Experience in clinical nutrition preferred
  • Experience with Eating Disorders and Substance Use Disorders strongly preferred
  • Strong assessment, counseling, communication, and documentation skills
  • Ability to work collaboratively with interdisciplinary treatment teams

Certifications & Licensure

Current Registered Dietitian (RD/RDN) credential required, or eligibility for state endorsement as applicable

ServSafe Certification or similar food safety certification preferred or required by state/facility regulations

Why Join CenterPointe?

  • Flexible PRN scheduling
  • Opportunity to make a meaningful impact on patient recovery
  • Collaborative multidisciplinary treatment environment
  • Rewarding work supporting behavioral health and wellness
  • Professional growth in a respected healthcare organization

Essential Functions

Assess nutritional needs, diet restrictions and current health plans to develop and implement dietary-care plans and provide nutritional counseling.

  • Approve patient menus and nutritional supplements.
  • Advise patients and their families on nutritional principles, dietary plans, diet modifications and food selection and preparation.
  • Provide nutritional assessments per facility policy and regulation.
  • Review and approve menus developed by the facility.

Counsel individuals and groups on basic rules of good nutrition, healthy eating habits and nutrition monitoring to improve their quality of life.

Consult with physicians and health care personnel to determine nutritional needs and diet restrictions of patient.

Participate in treatment team as appropriate.

Review and approve facility diet manual annually in conjunction with medical staff.

Promote better health by speaking to groups about diet, nutrition and the relationship between good eating habits and preventing or managing specific diseases.

Monitor food service operations to ensure conformance to nutritional, safety, sanitation and quality standards as needed.

Other Functions

Perform other functions and tasks as assigned.

Education/Experience/Skill Requirements

Bachelor's degree from an accredited University in Dietetics, Nutrition or similar field acceptable for licensure.

Experience with Eating Disorders and Substance use strongly preferred in facilities working with those patient populations.

Licenses/Designations/Certifications

Current registered dietician or registration as required by state or eligible for endorsement by the state in which the facility provides services.

ServSafe certification or similar food safety certification where required by the state or facility.

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment regardless of an individual’s characteristics protected by applicable state, federal and local laws.

Qualifications

Education
Bachelor degree
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Nutritional assessmentDietary care planningEating disorders treatmentSubstance use disorders treatmentMenu planningPatient educationInterdisciplinary collaborationFood safety compliance

Dietitian Career Context

Of the 50 active Clinical Nutrition listings this role was benchmarked against, 48% are remote, 38% have no call, 60% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Missouri is 90.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.1% of Missouri clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

How many Clinical Nutrition jobs are remote?
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed paynot listedClinical Nutrition median $73k (middle half $73k–$78k)33 comparable listings, Nov 2026
Cost of livingMissouri index 90.8US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Clinical Nutrition listings in Missouri54 active2,951 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 48% remote · 38% no call · 60% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedUS Dietitian listings: 16% state a sign-on bonus (median $4k) · 3% offer loan repayment1,000 active listings, Nov 2026
New Clinical Nutrition listings1,097 in the last 30 days596 the 30 days before (+84%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Clinical Nutrition pay trend+4.0% vs prior quarter—through Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

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Salary Distribution

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

29 jobs
401k / retirement match
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CME allowance
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Sign-on bonus
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Relocation assistance
10%
Loan repayment
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Work-life snapshot

median 6.0this job 4.8
Better work-life than 30% of Clinical Nutrition (Dietitian) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 2,913 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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About CenterPointe Hospital Columbia

Hospitals and Health Care
Columbia, Missouri
11-50 employees

Benefits & Perks

Flexible PRN scheduling
Professional growth opportunities

Living in Columbia

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$287k
Typical market rent
$1,464/mo
Residents’ average commute
16 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
89.4
State income tax
Up to 5.3%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Columbia, MO metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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