Dietitian Ii, Eating Disorders - Vancouver, Canada - PHSA

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Dietitian II, Eating Disorders
BC Children's Mental Health

Vancouver, BC


What you'll do
***- Conduct comprehensive nutritional assessments utilizing advanced knowledge and expertise of the medical risks and psychopathology of children, adolescents and young adults with eating disorders by maintaining awareness of the significant increased risk or mortality including high suicide risks, and ensuring nutritional assessments include the history of the eating disorder such as binging, purging, starvation, and exercise patterns and physical nutritional assessments include anthropometric measurements and assessment of risk for refeeding syndrome.

  • Develop and implement individual nutrition care plans based upon comprehensive assessments, utilizing appropriate standards and guidelines, and incorporating individual patient/resident's lifecycle stages, culture, and religion to ensure nutritional requirements are met.
  • Provide comprehensive individual, family and group counselling to normalize the eating experience by methods such as determining the appropriate counselling methods including cognitive behavioral therapy to identify dysfunctional thoughts regarding food, body image and exercise to support them with the process of change; motivational enhancement therapy for eliciting behaviour change by helping patients/residents to explore and resolve ambivalence; and food related experientials such as progressive responsibility in menu choices, cooking group, and restaurant group.
  • Manage and monitor the patient/resident response to the nutritional care plan by focusing on issues of disordered thoughts and feelings around food, eating and body image utilizing an advanced understanding of the psychopathology behind the eating disorder, transference, countertransference and boundary issues; monitoring menus to minimize dysfunctional eating behaviours and challenging patients/residents with new practices to achieve normalization of eating behaviours; and reviewing and adjusting the patient/resident menu selections in order to meet individual goals.
  • Provide patients/residents and families instruction regarding how to manage the patient/resident's response to the nutrition care plan and their ability to meet goals as inpatients and while transitioning back to the community/home by giving information, providing resource material, answering questions on topics such as limit setting, and modeling appropriate eating behaviours for patients/residents and their parents.
  • Participate in the triage process, weekly patient/resident care rounds, and team family meetings by providing expert opinion related to the nutritional care of the patient/resident, working collaboratively within an interprofessional environment, and utilizing knowledge of the complexities of eating disorders such as comorbid illness, medical and psychological complications and boundary issues.
  • Develop, coordinate, implement and evaluate patient/resident education and nutrition care resources, provide ongoing continuous planning and assessment of treatment protocols and act as a clinical resource person to dietitians, physicians and health care professionals in the province by providing guidance for program delivery and the management of individual cases.
  • Identify food service requirements for the Eating Disorders patient/resident population treatment to support with program treatment protocols by methods such as, liaising with Food Services provider with respect to daytoday issues regarding patient/resident menus and monitoring quality and patient/resident satisfaction, and representing Eating Disorders at the monthly review meeting with Food Service provider.

What you bring

Qualifications:


  • Graduation from an academic program in dietetics approved by the College of Dietitians of British Columbia.
  • Three (3) years recent, related clinical experience working with the designated patient/resident population within the program (Adult or Child and Youth) with disordered eating plus additional eating disorders or nutrition counselling training (such as the eating disorders boot camp training workshop for professionals, counselling psychology, accredited advanced intensive nutrition counseling course) or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
  • Full registration in the College of Dietitians of British Columbia.
You will also have

  • Broad knowledge of clinical nutrition theory and practice in health and disease.
  • Broad knowledge of the standards of practice and guidelines for clinical practitioners established by the College of Dietitians of B.C.
  • Comprehensive knowledge of disordered eating and its effects on nutrition, body composition metabolic parameters, psychopathology, behaviour, including risks of refeeding syndrome, its prevention and treatment.
  • Demonstrated ability to design, implement and monitor age appropriate therapeutic diets delivered via oral and enteral routes.
  • Demonstrate
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