Dietitian-Nutritionist - Champlain-Jean-Louis-Lapierre

Champlain Group Inc. is a grouping of 13 private, contracted Long-Term Care Facilities (LTCFs) located in various regions of Quebec, whose mission is to offer quality, deeply human, continuous care and services in a secure living environment to individuals with complex needs throughout their life journey in long-term care.

Our team and residents are currently looking for a DIETITIAN-NUTRITIONIST 4/14 days embodying the values of Kindness, Excellence, and Responsibility.

Do you enjoy teamwork and have excellent analytical skills?

Do you want to play a major role in the autonomy of our residents?

If so, do not hesitate to join us, we share the same philosophy!

Participate in the healthy and balanced nutrition of our residents by:

• Assessing the nutritional status and specific needs of our residents;
• Developing and implementing clear and concise procedures for the nutrition service and all associated partners;
• Helping to prevent and treat the consequences of inadequate nutrition for our residents;
• Specific Functions:

Develop intervention plans using a scientific approach; design, organize, execute, and evaluate intervention plans within your professional competence and aimed at complex or varied nutritional issues.

Evaluation

• Assess and reassess nutritional status;
• Analyze, interpret, and identify nutritional issues;
• Assess the functional capacity to eat;
• Assess an individual's eating behavior;
• Develop and adjust the nutritional intervention plan adapted to the user's living conditions.

Treatments

• Write and implement the nutritional intervention plan in consultation with the user's interdisciplinary intervention plan;
• Coordinate with relevant organizations for users requiring ultra-specialized food products, equipment, and materials;
• Provide counseling, including individual or group teaching;
• Evaluate the user's progress, consider treatment reactions, and adjust interventions accordingly;
• Write progress notes and maintain files according to professional standards and facility policies;
• Act as a consultant to the family, user, interdisciplinary team members, and colleagues;
• Communicate necessary clinical information to interdisciplinary team members and health and social services partners to ensure user follow-up in the continuum of care;
• Ensure necessary follow-ups with the user and ensure the implementation of the treatment plan in accordance with best practices;
• Participate in interdisciplinary team meetings and meetings related to your function; and update the interdisciplinary intervention plan in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.

Other Tasks

• Keep your knowledge up-to-date in your field of activity;
• Complete periodic professional activity statistics according to discipline policies;
• Regularly check renewable nutrition materials and inform your supervisor of materials to be ordered;
• Seek assistance from staff and determine some of your activities in connection with your area of expertise;
• Perform any other tasks as requested by your immediate supervisor.
• Join us and benefit from the following advantages and privileges:
• Be part of an accredited Group with a "mention" from Accreditation Canada, thus recognized for its quality of services beyond the requirements.
• Join a warm and family-oriented facility, promoting mutual aid and teamwork.
• Our proximity management allows our employees to be creative and participate in the center's life.
• Continuous training throughout your career with us.
• You will benefit from the same working conditions and social benefits as in the public health network (advantageous retirement and insurance collective regimes, 4 weeks of annual vacation, 13 holidays per year...)

Skills and Requirements Sought

We are looking for a person who loves working in a team and is concerned about the autonomy and well-being of our residents:

• Hold a bachelor's degree in dietetics or nutrition;
• Be a member in good standing of the Professional Order of Dietitians of Quebec;
• French spoken and written;
• Professional autonomy;
• Ability to work in an interdisciplinary team;
• Leadership;
• Communication skills;
• Good organizational sense;
• Open-mindedness and adaptability.

We thank all those who apply; only selected candidates will be contacted.

We subscribe to the principle of equal access. Applications from visible minorities, ethnic minorities, Indigenous peoples, people with disabilities, and women are encouraged. Adaptation measures may be offered to people with disabilities based on their needs.

A few extras...

Our Champlain Jean-Louis-Lapierre center, located in Saint-Constant, offers its clientele a pleasant living environment with nearby shops.