Position Summary
The Esophageal and Airway Treatment Center at Boston Children’s Hospital is dedicated to the care of infants, children, and young adults with complex esophageal and airway conditions. This is a temporary position through the end of 2026, offering a unique opportunity to support a highly specialized patient population. The role includes 28 hours focused on patients with Esophageal Atresia (EA) and 12 hours in the open clinic, providing a mix of specialized and general clinical exposure. This position is based in our Longwood Ave location in Boston, with an onsite requirement of 3 days per week. To learn more about the Esophageal and Airway Treatment Center, please visit us here.

Key Responsibilities:

• Providing comprehensive inpatient and outpatient nutritional care to patients in the Esophageal and Airway Treatment Center.
• Works well in a multidisciplinary program, aero digestive experience a plus. Outpatient management for patients with esophageal atresia, tracheomalacia and vascular ring and compression patients.
• Works collaboratively with surgeons, gastroenterologist and pulmonologists.
• Evaluating the medical, biochemical, and nutritional information and assessing patient needs in order to develop and implement the most appropriate nutrition care plans.
• Collaborating with inter professional team members, including physician partners, to optimize safest nutrition care plans, including orders for oral diets, enteral and parenteral nutrition in preparation for a successful hospital discharge
• Instructing patients and caregivers on prescribed nutritional/diet plan. Serving as a resource and educator for health care providers, students, community dietitians and the public.
• Assisting with the review of patient education materials or other projects of department significance.
• Participating in hospital and service/program specific quality improvement (QI) initiatives.
• Providing supervision of scheduled clinical nutrition services on weekends and holidays. Serving as a resource for food service staff when special patient food service issues arise. Participating in the orientation, and training of new dietitians, as necessary.
• Working collaboratively with peers and those from other disciplines and patient care settings, and promoting team morale within Clinical Nutrition Services and on patient units.
• Participating in speaking and writing opportunities as well as Clinical Nutrition Services education forums.

Minimum Qualifications:
Education:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition & Dietetics

Experience:

• 3+ years of progressive experience in Dietetics with at least 2 years in pediatric nutrition

Certifications/Licensure:

• Registration by Commission on Dietetic Registration, the Credentialing agency of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, as a Registered Dietitian
• Licensure by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a licensed Dietitian.