Dietician at Lily Hospitals Limited - Delta and Edo

Lily Hospitals Limited, established since 1986 remains one of the foremost hospitals in Nigeria and within the South-South region of the country. It is the first private hospital in Nigeria to achieve ISO 9001:2000 quality management system certification from the Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON) and was also recently accredited with COHSASA (Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa) Certificate.

We are also consistently committed to high standards; continuous improvement, service excellence, organizational citizenship, and outstanding work ethics. Currently running residency training programs in family medicine and radiology.  Lily Hospitals is also involved in housemanship training, internship training in Pharmacy and Radiology.

We are recruiting to fill the vacant position below:

Job Title: Dietician

Locations: Warri - Delta and Benin - Edo
Type: Full Time
Job Category: Senior Level

Job Summary

• This role is responsible for translating scientific information about nutrition into practical advice to help patients make health-conscious decisions about food.
• The dietician will also assess, diagnose and treat diet-related problems and aim to raise awareness of the link between food and health to prevent future problems.

Key Result Areas (KRA)
The key result areas of this role are:

• Practice as a member of an interdisciplinary team to determine nutritional needs of patients and to plan normal and therapeutic menus.
• Plan, Calculate and transcribe therapeutic diet into food according to prescription.
• Supervision and preparation of special diets
• Feeding of the critically ill, via the preparation of Nasogastric Tube feeds.
• Responsible for the nutritional rehabilitation of the malnourished adults and children in the Hospital.
• Participate on medical Consultants’ ward round
• Educate patients through different media on different issues related to diet.
• Attendance at the Clinical meetings.
• Routine visits and dietary counseling of inpatients on the Wards, as may be scheduled by the physician.

The Person

• Minimum academic qualification of a B.Sc./HND in Food Science, Culinary Science, nutrition,
• 2 to 5 years relevant work experience on a similar role preferably in the Health sector.
• Membership of the Dietetics Council of Nigeria would be an added advantage.
• Excellent customers service skills
• Outstanding communication, interpersonal and people management skills
• Intermediate Knowledge of Microsoft office packages
• Possess high degree of accuracy and attention to details.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Remuneration
Salary in line with industry standard.

Application Closing Date
21st September, 2018

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their word doc CV's only to: [email protected] using the job title as the subject of the mail.