Clinical Dietitian (Per Diem) - UCLA West Valley Medical Center
West Hills, CAPer Diem$47.36–55.24/hrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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The Clinical Dietitian provides medical nutrition therapy to inpatient areas across a variety of specialties at UCLA West Valley Medical Center. The role includes nutrition assessment, care planning, monitoring, patient education, and collaboration with an interdisciplinary healthcare team. The dietitian provides coverage across units based on department needs rather than a fixed assignment. Acute care experience is preferred.
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Description
Join UCLA West Valley Medical Center as a Clinical Dietitian and play a vital role in providing exceptional medical nutrition therapy to inpatient areas across a variety of specialties.
Key Responsibilities:
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Conduct comprehensive nutrition assessments, develop care plans, and provide ongoing monitoring and reassessment.
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Educate patients and provide appropriate referrals for continued care post-discharge.
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Perform Nutrition-Focused Physical Exams (NFPE) and assess malnutrition.
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Collaborate with dietetic technicians, food service staff, nurses, physicians, and the interdisciplinary healthcare team.
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Participate in departmental initiatives, performance improvement activities, meetings, and patient care rounds.
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Provide coverage across various units based on department needs, rather than a fixed assignment.
If you're passionate about patient-centered care and thrive in a dynamic clinical environment, we invite you to apply and make a difference!
Salary Range: $47.36-$55.24 Hourly
May convert to careerQualifications
Required:
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Registered Dietitian or Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist (RD/RDN) registered with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics' Commission on Dietetic Registration.
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Understanding of food service systems, menu planning, and food safety, to ensure that patients receive appropriate meals during their stay.
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Proficiency in conducting comprehensive nutritional assessments, including interpreting lab results and understanding the patient's current and past medical history.
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Availability to work weekends and holidays.
Preferred:
- Acute care experience
UCLA Health welcomes all individuals, without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin or disabilities, and we proudly look to each person’s unique achievements and experiences to further set us apart.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,454 open Clinical Dietitian jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$47.36–55.24/hr
- California median$40–52/hr83 hourly ranges
- US median$30–40/hr959 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $51.30/hr, is 9% above the California median midpoint ($47/hr) — in the top quarter of Clinical Dietitian hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 159 open Clinical Dietitian jobs in California and 2,454 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Compass Group, North America114 open
- Dignity Health8 open
- Sutter Health7 open
- Experience
- Clinical Dietitian postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (258 postings).
- Education
- 420 of the 2,454 open Clinical Dietitian jobs (17%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 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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