Director of Food & Nutrition (RD)

Position: Director of Food and Nutrition 
CDR Registration as a Registered Dietitian required 

Location: Chicago, IL

Schedule: Full Time 
Compensation: $75,000 - $100,000 / annually (based on experience) 

Rush Specialty Hospital, a partnership between Select Medical and RUSH, is a 100-bed facility that combines a critical illness recovery hospital and an acute inpatient rehabilitation hospital.

Our team is committed to providing world-class inpatient post-ICU services to chronic, critically ill patients who require extended healing and recovery as well as exceptional rehabilitation services to best address the medical, physical, emotional, and vocational challenges for individuals with brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, neurological disorders, orthopedic issues, amputation, and multiple traumas.

At our company, we support your career growth and personal well-being.

• Start Strong: Extensive orientation program to ensure a smooth transition into our setting.
• Recharge & Refresh: Generous PTO for full-time team members to maintain a healthy work-life balance
• Your Health Matters: Comprehensive medical/RX, health, vision, and dental plan offerings for full-time team members
• Invest in Your Future: Company-matching 401(k) retirement plan, as well as life and disability protection for full-time team members
• Your Impact Matters: Join a team of over 44,000 committed to providing exceptional patient care
• Ease the Burden: Company Paid Parking 

In this role, you will lead a team to ensure the overall operations of the hospital for food service and nutritional care are being met. You will also perform inspections of all assigned areas to make certain the highest standards of Quality Assurance Control are being upheld.

• Providing direct, continuous supervision of Food and Nutrition Service personnel.
• Consistently establishing effective relationships with medical personnel and other patient care services.
• Displaying the ability to manage all areas of the department, including budget, food purchasing and food production.
• Preparing and providing in-services for departmental personnel on a regular basis.
• Calculating menus in accordance with diet order and nutritional needs of patients.
• Teaching and counseling patients and their families.
• Scheduling of personnel in your department.

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelors degree with major studies in food and nutrition.
• Current registration as a Registered Dietitian by the Commission on Dietetics Registration.
• Current state Dietitian licensure/certification, if required by state.
• Five or more years in a management capacity in a Food and Nutrition department or healthcare food service department.

Preferred qualifications that will make you successful:

• Thorough knowledge of food products and service, operations, staffing, handling, storage and regulatory requirements.