Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center is Louisiana’s leading cancer care organization, caring for more patients each year than any other facility in the region. And with strategic hospital and physician partnerships, we are delivering on our mission to improve survivorship and lessen the burden of cancer.

Mary Bird Perkins and its partners work together to provide state-of-the-art treatments and unparalleled collaborative, comprehensive cancer services. This culture of innovation helps attract the best cancer minds in the country, from expert physicians and highly specialized scientists to forward-thinking leaders in supportive care and other disciplines.

Together, with our hospital and physician partners, we are one-hundred percent focused on cancer care.

Why Join Us? We are looking for talented and highly-motivated individuals who demonstrate a natural desire to support the meaningful work of community oncologists and the patients we serve.

Job Description:

This is a Part-Time Position requiring availability to cover 2 days a week each week.

SCOPE: Assesses and monitors the nutritional status of the patients being treated within the Mary Bird Perkins system and others referred by the physicians, therapists, nurses, and social workers. Manage tube feeding and navigate nutrition prescriptions through insurance and community resources. Recommends nutritional supplements as needed to maintain optimal patient weight. Develops patient educational material related to nutrition. Demonstrates knowledge of growth and development patterns as appropriate for adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients. Maintains awareness of the age of the patient served when providing care plans and follow-up services.  

FUNCTIONS:

1.    Assesses and monitors the nutritional needs of patients with high potential of complications due to treatment-related weight loss.

2.    Assesses the nutritional needs of other patients as referred by physicians, therapists, nurses, and social workers or as identified by evaluation of patient's medical record.

3.    Provides nutritional education to patients in a professional and efficient manner.

4.    Develops/reviews/revises patient educational materials regarding patient nutrition.

5.    Conduct cancer and nutrition related presentations to individuals with cancer, cancer survivors, and the general public.

6.    Assist patients with contacting community agencies or businesses that may assist with nutritional products and equipment.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor's degree in nutrition or nutrition related science    
Experience in the nutritional care of oncology patients is preferred.
CDR registration and licensed as a dietitian/nutritionist by the state of Louisiana.

Demonstrates competency in assessing the nutritional status of all ages of the patient population, including the normal and special patterns of growth and development in these populations and maintains an awareness of the age of the patient served in all patient care responsibilities.