Nutritionist

Nutritionist Occupation NUTRITIONIST Job Description & Requirements Responsibilities: • Counsel individuals and groups on basic rules of good nutrition, healty eating habits, and nutrition monitoring to improve their quality of life. • Assess nutritional needs, diet restrictions and current health plans to develop and implement dietary-care plans and provide nutritional counselling. • Advise patients and their families on nutritional principles, dietary plans and diet modifications, and food selection and preparation. • Consult with physicians and health care personnel to determine nutritional needs and diet restrictions of patient or client. • Monitor food service operations to ensure conformance to nutritional, safety, sanitation and quality standards. • Organize, develop, analyse, test, and prepare special meals such as low-fat, low-cholesterol and chemical-free meals. • Develop curriculum and prepare manuals, visual aids, course outlines, and other materials used in teaching. • Plan, conduct, and evaluate dietary, nutritional, and epidemiological research. • Coordinate diet counselling services. • Select, train and supervise workers who plan, prepare and serve meals. • Manage quantity food service departments or clinical and community nutrition services. • Develop policies for food service or nutritional programs to assist in health promotion and disease control. • Inspect meals served for conformance to prescribed diets and standards of palatability and appearance. • Advise food service managers and organizations on sanitation, safety procedures, menu development, budgeting, and planning to assist with the establishment, operation, and evaluation of food service facilities and nutrition programs • Write research reports and other publications to document and communicate research findings. • Coordinate recipe development and standardization and develop new menus for independent food service operations. • Prepare and administer budgets for food, equipment and …