You’re experienced, talented and motivated. You have the discipline, and you want to invest it in an opportunity that will invest in you. You want to add more meaning to the work you do every day.

At ERC Pathlight, our mission lights the way for your passion.

Who we are:

With over 30 locations throughout the U.S. and treatment options available virtually, ERC Pathlight meets patients where they’re at to offer innovative, compassionate, and comprehensive treatment for eating disorders, as well as mood, anxiety, and trauma-related disorders.

We were founded in 2008 by pre-eminent psychiatrists and psychologists and treat 6,000+ patients per year. With the critical need for mental health care and eating disorder treatment, we’re looking for passionate and qualified professionals who will live out our mission to help save the lives of our patients.

What you’ll be doing:

This is by no means a “behind-the-scenes" role, as your work will help the company serve patients daily in a multitude of ways.

The Regional Director of Nutrition (RDN) is a key leadership role responsible for overseeing the nutritional services and the career development of dietary staff across multiple facilities within a designated region. This role requires a highly experienced registered dietitian with deep expertise in eating disorders care, exceptional leadership skills and a commitment to delivering the highest quality of care. RDNs ensure that nutritional interventions are safe, consistent, effective, and clinically appropriate to meet the needs of each patient. RDNs report directly to the company’s Chief Clinical and Quality Officer and work closely with their region’s Regional Vice President to manage the financial and operational goals of the region and to maintain exacting standards of care. The RDN has overall clinical responsibility for the region’s dietary outcomes, dietary programming, dietitian engagement, training and matters related to dietary staff development.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Clinical Oversight: Provides strategic leadership, direction and supervision to nutrition directors and other leaders of nutrition teams across the region, ensuring that all dietary practices align with the ERCPL practice and standards. Oversees the delivery of nutrition counseling services, ensuring that the nutrition therapy provided is consistent, effective, and tailored to meet the individual needs of patients. Ensures that all dietary teammates are provided appropriate onboarding, training, supervision and mentorship, fostering professional development. Acts as a resource for complex cases, providing clinical guidance and support to dietitians working with challenging clinical situations. Ensures that all teammates are equipped with the right skills, tools, and talents necessary for executing their duties.
• Quality Assurance and Improvement: Leads initiatives to monitor, evaluate, and improve the quality of nutrition therapy across the region. Conducts regular audits of clinical documentation, treatment plans and therapeutic outcomes to ensure compliance with company goals, company policies and accreditation standards. Develops and implements plans based on data-driven insights, patient experience surveys and emerging trends in nutrition therapies.
• Program Development and Implementation: Serves as the region’s most impactful nutrition therapy related subject matter expert. Develops and maintains nutrition therapy and educational resources for teammates, patients, and families. Collaborates with other regional directors and corporate leaders to develop and refine nutrition programs tailored to the needs of patients with eating disorders, incorporating latest research and best practices. Ensures the integration of trauma informed care, culturally sensitive approaches, and other integrative treatment models into standard practice. Promotes the use of innovative nutrition therapy techniques and modalities to enhance treatment effectiveness and patient/ family engagement.
• Regulatory Compliance, Patient Advocacy and Utilization Review: Ensures that all clinical nutrition practices comply with state and federal regulations, licensing and accreditation standards and payor agreements. Identifies and addresses potential clinical risks, implements corrective actions as needed to maintain a safe and ethical treatment environment. Serves as a regional point of contact for regulatory bodies, ensuring timely and accurate reporting and compliance with all legal and UR requirements. Consults with other members of ERC leadership on the development, review, and updating of policies and procedures for the nutrition department.
• Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration: Maintains an authentic and trusted leadership reputation. Engages with internal and external stakeholders, including patients, families, referring professionals, community partners and regulatory agencies, to promote transparency and collaboration in service delivery. Participates in family education and support activities, engaging with families and other caregivers to offer education and guidance on how to support loved ones in adhering to their nutrition plans. Represents the company at professional conferences, workshops and marketing events, modeling and advocating for high standards in behavioral health nutrition care. Develops and maintains clinical resources for community providers. Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams, including medical directors, nursing leaders, clinical directors, operational leaders, and administrative staff to ensure a consistent, compassionate multidisciplinary approach to patient care. Develops and maintains positive, productive relationships with community providers for the purpose of expanding a referral base.
• Resource Management: Working with the Regional Vice President and corporate leadership, the RDN shares oversight for the allocation of nutrition therapy resources across the region, including food services, RD and DA staffing, teammate training, and patient/ family education materials to ensure the delivery of high-quality care. Works closely with the people team to recruit, onboard and retain top nutrition therapy talent within the region. Actively drives actions to improve teammates’ experiences. Interfaces with food service operations vendors on contracts, services, etc. Maximizes growth and profitability, while achieving positive patient outcomes and teammate goals. Optimizes targeted capacity utilization and efficiency goals.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition, Dietetics, or related field required.
• Graduate degree preferred.
• Must have and maintain an active State Registered Dietician license for each state in region.
• Active Commission of Dietetic Registration Credential.
• Certified Eating Disorder Specialist preferred,
• 7+ years senior, director level nutrition management experience including budgetary, strategic planning, program development, evidenced base practice and clinical nutrition supervision. At least three years being directly related to eating disorders care.
• Demonstrated excellence in a role that required significant responsibility for formulating and administering policies and programs, manages significant human, financial, and physical resources, and functions with a significant degree of autonomy.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 35% of the time, including working occasional evenings and weekends.

What’s in it for you:

Every role at ERC Pathlight is essential to delivering the high-quality care we promise to our patients. This means that from day one, we’re here to support your role whether that means collaborating on monthly/quarterly goals, introducing you to mentors you can learn from, connecting you to continuing education resources and supplying you with the tools needed to not only excel but achieve measurable growth.

What we offer:

Healthy organizations value the mental wellness of their teams, and we understand that the professionals who work for us are not immune to their own mental health conditions. In the same way we observe and guide our patients, we take the same consideration for our employees when building our benefits packages and healthcare offerings. Teammates (and their families) are eligible to enroll in medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Eligible teammates will receive 5.54 hours of paid time off every pay period for your first two years of employment as well as 40 hours of paid parental leave will also be available for use. We also offer competitive pay, 401(K) with company match and tuition reimbursement.

Compensation for the Regional Director of Nutrition is $110,000- $130,000 plus bonus potential and is based upon market expectations and experience.