Duties and Responsibilities
Duties and responsibilities at this level will include: 

Preparing and implementing therapeutic diets for outpatients and inpatients;
Providing guidelines on diets for existing and emerging diseases for hospital use and home-based care;
Treating and counseling patients using specialised dietetic nutritionally modified products;
Implementing the nutrition and dietetic process including screening;
Assessing, formulating and  implementing nutrition interventions and evaluating outcomes;
Providing nutrition support in patient management in healthcare facilities;
Developing and disseminating nutrition behavior change;
Implementing nutrition health programmes; and
Collecting and compiling nutrition data.

Requirements for Appointment
For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have: -

Bachelor Degree in any of the following disciplines: Foods, Nutrition and Dietetics, Dietetics/Clinical Nutrition, Community Nutrition, Food Science, Home Economics or its equivalent qualification from a recognized Institution;
Registration by the Council of the Institute of Nutritionists and Dieticians (CIND); and
Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.