This clinician provides virtual nutrition care for children with eating disorders, working with families to support nutritional rehabilitation, meal planning, and progress toward recovery. Care is delivered through telehealth as part of a family-based treatment model, with a focus on ongoing assessment, education, and individualized planning. The role is highly collaborative and includes close coordination with an interdisciplinary treatment team, regular plan updates, and detailed documentation.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct initial nutrition assessments and ongoing telehealth follow-up visits with patients and families.
- Develop individualized meal plans and assess target weight ranges based on each patient’s needs.
- Guide exposure to fear foods and support families in building healthier eating patterns.
- Provide nutrition education that addresses food, weight, and shape-related beliefs driving eating disorder behaviors.
- Coordinate care with the interdisciplinary treatment team and communicate nutrition concerns clearly to team members and families.
- Update treatment plans weekly to reflect progress, goals, assignments, and nutrition-related concerns.
- Assist with discharge planning and ongoing reassessment of nutritional needs.
- Document care thoroughly in the electronic medical record according to organizational policies.
Required
- Bachelor’s degree or completed coursework from an ACEND-accredited or approved program.
- Licensed RDN.
- Ability to provide direct patient care in a full-time schedule.
- Ability to maintain required availability during Central Time Zone hours.
Preferred
- Experience working with eating disorder patients.
- Exposure to family-based eating disorder treatment approaches.
- Experience working on interdisciplinary teams.
Benefits & Perks
- Fully remote, work-from-home position with no travel required.
- W-2 salaried role with full benefits.
- Base compensation range of $68,000 to $85,000 annually plus annual performance-based bonus potential.
- Flex PTO policy plus 11 paid company holidays.
- Generous parental leave.
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and AD&D insurance, with a significant portion of premiums paid by the employer.
- Employer-paid mental health benefit, employee assistance program, and healthcare concierge support.
- Student loan repayment, licensure reimbursement, continuing education stipend, and company laptop.