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General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Onsite or Remote
Flexible Hybrid
Work Schedule
Flexible Hybrid shifts, Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm
Posted Date
05/14/2026
Salary Range: $44.59 - 58.82 Hourly
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
indefinite
Job #
30390

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Our Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior is seeking to hire a full-time Registered Dietitian to join our Operation Mend Program. Operation Mend is a nationally unique program providing specialized care for veterans, service members, and their caregivers who are affected by traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, and/or psychical injuries. Key responsibilities include:

  • Assess and evaluate patients’ nutritional status
  • Develop individualized nutrition care plans, including goals, interventions, and education
  • Provide tailored nutrition counseling and create meal plans to support brain health and accommodate dietary restrictions
  • Conduct and document nutrition assessments, reassessments, and ongoing care recommendations
  • Deliver patient education using approaches tailored to individual psychical, cultural, and economic needs
  • Incorporate medications, laboratory values, and clinical indicators into nutrition planning, including electrolyte balance, fluid needs, and acid-base status
  • Collaborate with the multidisciplinary care team to integrate nutrition care into the overall treatment plan
  • Support and maintain teaching kitchen operations, including inventory, organization, and food supplies
Salary range: $44.59/hr - $58.82/hr

Job Qualifications

Active California License as a Registered Dietitian

Master’s degree in Nutrition or related field and/or equivalent combination of education and experience

Prior experience working with active duty and veteran military populations (preferred)

Experience with nutrition for brain health and food triggers associated with psychological injury

Ability to educate patients on usage of diet to daily lives and best practices

Minimum 2-3 years of relevant clinical experience or training 

Prior experience working with adult population

Ability to develop individualized meal plans per patients needs

Maintain and manage the teaching kitchen content (kitchen items, food, organization, etc.)

Strong communication skills with multidisciplinary team

Experience with multiple comorbidities that effect neurology patients


As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.

Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.