Nutritionist (Diet & Nutrition)

Job description / Role

• Assess patients’ and clients’ nutritional needs, diet restrictions and current health plans to develop and implement dietary-care plans and provide nutritional counseling.
• Creating meal plans, taking both cost and clients’ preferences into account
• Evaluate the effects of meal plans and change the plans as needed
• Consult with engaged physician and health care personnel to determine nutritional needs and diet restrictions of patient or client.
• Advise patients and their families on nutritional principles, dietary plans and diet modifications, and food selection and preparation.
• Write reports to document patient progress
• Counsel individuals and groups on basic rules of good nutrition, healthy eating habits, and nutrition monitoring to improve their quality of life.
• Promote meal plans by effective counselling to the patients.
• Assist in developing and analyzing the menus as and when required.
• Attends marketing events and deliver workshops leading Nutrition Talks promoting good nutrition and healthy eating habits
• Promote better nutrition via press, website content, collateral (E.g. blog articles and social media posts)
• Liaising with media, e.g. journalists, radio, television and contributing to news reports and relevant programs;
• Keep up with the latest nutritional science research

Requirements

• Candidates must be a Degree Holder from Accredited, Educational Institution, College or University
• 3+ years’ full-time experience as a Nutritionist, preferably in Holistic nutrition.
• Fluent in English, good Arabic knowledge desirable
• DHA license is mandatory.
• Commitment to continuous medicine education.
• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to communicate effectively with patients, family, nurses and doctors
• Ability to project a positive and professional image of self, department and clinic.

About the Company

As a fully-integrated medical centre, The Dubai Herbal & Treatment Centre’s range of health and wellness treatments and therapies complement each other. Our team of both allopathic and CAM (Complementary and Alternative medicine) practitioners are experts in their field, dedicated to their work and sensitive to the individual needs of each patient.

Focusing on the harmony between Conventional (Allopathic) and Complementary & Alternative Medicine, the health and wellness programmes we design for you may consist of one or a combination of conventional and CAM treatments.

Under the auspices of His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, The Dubai Herbal and Treatment Centre meets a broad spectrum of needs – from more chronic medical conditions to programmes that simply maintain good health and well-being.