Job Summary: Provides nutrition education and clinical services within established guidelines. Essential Responsibilities: • Upholds Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities and applicable state, federal and local laws. • Participates in establishing department strategic goals and priorities. • Assesses member needs, establishes priorities, designs, develops, recommends, updates, implements and evaluates programs, curriculum, materials (written and audiovisual), protocols, procedures and standards for health/nutrition education. • Plans, participates and evaluates community events and coordinates use of community resources as appropriate. • Implements nutrition care plans to include follow-up and referrals to government, community and/or other Kaiser Permanente facilities for continuity of nutrition care. • Educates/counsels members, family and caregivers regarding health and nutrition on an individual or group setting (classes). • Develops meal plans as appropriate to meet members lifestyle, socio-economic background, age, culture, diagnosis and religious affiliation. • Consults and educates physicians and other healthcare providers regarding member and population specific nutrition/health related issues. • Participates in multidisciplinary care teams and committees. • Collects data, plans, prepares and implements reports for performance improvement and/or quality assurance audits. • Develops grants and proposals for health/nutrition programs. • Plans, conducts and evaluates in-service education programs for department staff, the multidisciplinary care team and physicians. • Individual Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) as appropriate: • Provides high quality, evidence-based, efficient, customer-focused MNT, including nutrition screening, assessment, care planning and education for appropriate nutrition intervention. • Develops, implements, and monitors ongoing plan of care based on the screening and assessment of the patient specific nutrition care plans/education and based on the patients age, nutrition and psychosocial status, diagnosis, cultural background and religious affiliation. • Other duties as assigned.