Nutrition Manager, Elder Service Plan

$2500 Sign on Bonus Offered!

Harbor Health Services is seeking a compassionate and experienced Nutrition Manager to lead the nutrition program for our Elder Service Plan (ESP)—a Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)—at our locations in Mattapan and Brockton. Serving over 580 frail elders, our Elder Service Plan provides comprehensive healthcare, transportation, and social services, helping participants live with dignity and independence in their communities.

Role:

As Nutrition Manager, you’ll report to the Director of Clinical Services and play a vital role in developing and implementing nutrition services in alignment with PACE, DPH, and other regulatory guidelines. You’ll oversee a dedicated nutrition team, contribute to strategic planning and budgeting, support compliance audits, and may conduct occasional home care visits. This is a great opportunity to bring your clinical expertise and leadership skills to a mission-driven organization that embodies whole-person, customized care for elders.

Harbor Health offers an excellent, comprehensive benefits package including Health, Dental, Vision, Life, & Disability insurance, 403b Savings Plan, Generous Paid Time Off plus 11 additional Holidays and much more!

Responsibilities:

• Develops, coordinates and implements nutrition programs for ESP in Mattapan and Brockton locations; ensuring that the nutrition programs are in compliance with regulatory and compliance agencies.
• Responsible for all aspects of Nutrition Department personnel including hires, develops, evaluates, trains, and supports the Nutrition staff, supervises the Dietary Aides and other Dieticians and ensures staff ratios are on-par with participant/program demands.
• Oversees Dietician performance – ensures assessments are completed timely and comprehensive; develops protocols and tools to support population management; ensures Care Plans are updated accurately.
• Ensures that all meals are in compliance with PACE and DPH requirements.
• Provides guidance and advice to participants and their families regarding nutrition and provides nutritional educational programs and materials to participants, families and ESP staff.
• Oversees the food services programs provided by the food vendors.
• Actively participates in the interdisciplinary teams; covers 20% panel and/or escalation cases.
• Continuously improves Nutrition operations and quality (e.g., supplement management, vendor management for food satisfaction).
• Performs initial, semiannual, and annual nutritional assessments on site or in the home setting or other outside sites.
• Ensures the Dietary Aides are performing all necessary compliance functions.
• Provides or supports Kitchen coverage when needed.
• Places and/or manages orders as needed: reviews and approves all nutrition-related invoices.
• Develops and implements Annual Safety Training for ESP Staff.
• Assists in the development, implementation and management of the Nutrition budget.
• Must be able to travel between Harbor ESP sites and participants residence and other outside sites as needed in a timely manner.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition/Dietetics, Master’s degree in Public Health Nutrition, Foods and Nutrition or Master’s degree in Nutrition and Dietetics preferred
• Currently Licensed in the state of Massachusetts as a Registered Dietician
• Current Serve Safe Manager Certification, MA Food Allergen Certification required (or obtained within 3 months of hire) and current BLS (Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers) Certification required
• Two years of professional experience providing nutritional counseling and assessments of which one year has been as a direct or functional supervisor of nutrition staff
• One year of experience working in geriatrics required
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Intermediate skills with Office 365 including Word, Excel and Outlook

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

Half of bonus on hire and remainder ay 90 day is good standing, former employees of Harbor Health are not eligible.