Diabetes Educator
Rockville Centre, NYJob$41.82–51.02/hrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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The Diabetes Educator helps patients manage diabetes through education, nutritional guidance, and personalized care. The role provides diabetes self-management education and medical nutrition therapy in collaboration with physicians, patients, and the healthcare team, while ensuring the program meets American Diabetes Association standards. The educator also supports program enrollment, patient counseling, clinical documentation, and quality assurance.
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Overview
Diabetes Educator
Location: Mercy Hospital – A Member of Catholic Health
Join a mission-driven team at Mercy Hospital, a 375-bed not-for-profit hospital known for compassionate care that treats the whole person: body, mind, and spirit.
As a Diabetes Educator, you will play an essential role in helping patients manage diabetes through education, nutritional guidance, and personalized care. You will work closely with physicians, patients, and the healthcare team to provide comprehensive diabetes self-management education and medical nutrition therapy while ensuring the program meets American Diabetes Association standards.
Job Details
Job Responsibilities:
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Promote the diabetes education program to the medical community and serve as a resource for physicians during program development and ongoing operations.
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Screen prospective program participants and coordinate admissions and registration with Patient Access.
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Review preliminary patient paperwork to ensure all required documentation and materials are complete prior to class participation.
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Communicate with physician offices to obtain required medical authorization forms.
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Maintain ongoing communication with physicians and patients to support program enrollment and participation.
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Identify and recruit Mercy Hospital patients who may benefit from outpatient diabetes education.
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Review and evaluate each participant’s three-day food diary.
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Provide Diabetes Self-Management Training and Medical Nutrition Therapy education.
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Work individually with patients to develop and support recommended meal plans.
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Ensure all program components comply with American Diabetes Association standards.
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Provide quality assurance through clinical documentation monitoring and statistical program reporting.
Job Requirements:
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Bachelor's degree required.
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New York State Registered Dietitian licensure required.
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Certified Diabetes Educator credential through the American Diabetes Association or American Association of Diabetes Educators required.
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Certified Insulin Pump Trainer certification according to industry standards required.
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Minimum of five years of experience in a similar or lesser position.
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Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
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Ability to collaborate effectively with physicians, patients, and multidisciplinary healthcare teams.
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Excellent organizational, educational, and patient counseling skills.
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Commitment to providing compassionate, patient-centered care.
Why Join Us:
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Competitive pay + differentials and benefits
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Tuition assistance
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Defined pension plan
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Supportive team and growth-friendly culture
Salary Range
USD $41.82 - USD $51.02 /Hr.
Be part of something bigger. Join Mercy Hospital and help us nourish and heal through excellence in food service.
The rate listed does not include any differential pay or other forms of compensation that may be applicable to this job and it does not include the value of benefits. At Catholic Health, we believe in a people-first approach. In addition to the estimated base pay provided, employees are eligible for generous benefits packages, generous tuition assistance, a defined benefit pension plan, and a culture that supports professional and educational growth.
How this job compares
Set against the 3,038 open Registered Dietitian jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$41.82–51.02/hr
- New York median$31–44/hr35 hourly ranges
- US median$30–40/hr1,642 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $46.42/hr, is 24% above the New York median midpoint ($38/hr) — in the top quarter of Registered Dietitian hourly ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 80 open Registered Dietitian jobs in New York and 3,038 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- RochesterRegional Health14 open
- Compass Group, North America11 open
- Northwell Health6 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience — more than three in four Registered Dietitian postings that state a minimum ask for (median 1 year, across 479 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 1,134 of the 3,038 open Registered Dietitian jobs (37%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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