Job Description
Registered Dietitian – Dialysis (Full-Time, 40 Hours/Week)
Now Offering a $10,000 Sign-On Bonus!
We are seeking a Registered Dietitian to join our dialysis team in a full-time, 40-hour-per-week role. This is a split-site position , providing nutrition services and patient support across two outpatient dialysis facilities in the Metro Detroit area. The successful candidate will divide their time between both locations and collaborate with interdisciplinary care teams to support optimal patient outcomes.
Work Locations:
Troy Dialysis (70% of the time)
2050 Livernois, Suite A
Troy, MI 48083
Home Dialysis Specialty Center (30% of the time)
29001 Harper Ave.
St. Clair Shores, MI 48081
Duties & Responsibilities:
Ready to make a real difference in patients' lives? Here's what you'll be doing:
- Get to know your patients through initial and ongoing assessments—interviews that help you understand their unique nutritional needs and goals
- Assess and monitor nutritional status like a detective, catching issues early and keeping patients on track
- Create personalized nutrition plans that actually work—calculating, prescribing, and teaching patients and staff how to succeed with their diets
- Be the nutrition educator your patients need—delivering engaging nutritional guidance to patients, caregivers, and unit staff
- Build bridges between care settings by coordinating with hospitals, extended care facilities, home health agencies, senior centers, and community programs like Meals on Wheels
- Keep tabs on adherence and celebrate wins when patients stick to their plans
- Recommend smart solutions for phosphorus binders, renal vitamins, supplements, and other medications that support patient health
- Review labs together with patients each month—turning numbers into meaningful conversations about progress
- Problem-solve creatively around nutritional challenges, from alternate feeding routes to supplemental nutrition strategies
- Jump into action during critical moments—responding quickly to urgent situations like hyperkalemia with confidence and expertise
- Connect the dots between medications and nutrition, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks
- Collaborate like a pro in interdisciplinary team meetings, contributing your expertise to comprehensive patient care plans
- Drive quality improvements by actively participating in unit quality initiatives and GHS dietitian committees
- Hunt down resources that help your patients thrive nutritionally
- Be a team player who makes and receives referrals, shares knowledge, and develops educational materials that make a real impact
- Lead by example as a professional role model for colleagues and interns
- Stay sharp through professional development—attending conferences, maintaining memberships, and diving into nephrology-focused learning
- Keep your RD credentials current through continuing education in nephrology
- Support kinetic modeling efforts and protocol management as needed
- Mentor dietetic interns when the opportunity arises—passing on your expertise to the next generation
- Tackle other duties as they come your way, because great teams are flexible!