Job Title: WIC Nutritionist

Location: Putnam, CT

Department: Child Advocacy

Agreed Hours: 36/week

Shift: 1st

Weekends: 6 Saturdays per year

Job Summary:

Responsible for providing direct nutrition services, including nutrition assessment, education breastfeeding promotion and support and referrals to WIC participants.

Skills and Abilities:

Responsible for providing direct nutrition services, including nutrition assessment, education breastfeeding promotion and support and referrals to WIC participants.

As a Competent Professional Authority (CPA) on the staff of the local program, conducts a complete WIC nutrition assessment, determines and documents nutritional risk of WIC participants.

Is responsible for appropriate food package assignment and tailoring for of WIC participants.

Assures proper certification of eligible applicants.

Assists with the implementation of the nutrition and breastfeeding promotion and support component of the local agency plan.

Assists with meeting State and local objectives.

Provides nutrition education, counseling and breastfeeding support appropriate to the WIC participant.

As a Competent Professional Authority (CPA) on the staff of the local program, conducts a complete WIC nutrition assessment, determines and documents nutritional risk of WIC participants as appropriate develops and follow-up on care plans for high-risk participants.

Is responsible for the appropriate assignment and tailoring of WIC food packages for participants.

Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from a four-year institution accredited by a recognized regional accrediting
• body with a major in foods and nutrition, community nutrition, nutrition education, or nutritional
• sciences. Preferably has credentials of a Registered Dietitian (R.D.) or eligibility with the
• Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics' Commission on Dietetic Registration; if applicable, has State
• license or certified as a nutritionist/dietitian OR
• A Master's degree from an institution accredited by a recognized regional accrediting body in
• nutritional sciences, community nutrition, clinical nutrition, dietetics, public health nutrition,
• home economics with a major in foods and nutrition.
• Persons with a Master's degree in nutrition who do not have a Bachelor's degree in foods and
• nutrition must have successfully completed the equivalent subject matter at the graduate level
• to compensate for any courses not completed at the undergraduate level.

BI-LINGUAL ENGLISH AND SPANISH PREFERRED.

Benefits Summary:

• Medical/Dental/Vision
• Pharmacy Plan
• Basic & Supplemental Life Insurance
• Short & Long Term Disability
• HSA or FSA accounts
• Accident & Critical Illness Coverage
• 401K Plan with match
• Vacation Time
• Sick Days
• Paid Holidays
• Education Reimbursement
• Additional Benefits

Day Kimball Health is a non-profit, integrated medical services provider comprised of Day Kimball Hospital, healthcare centers in Danielson, Dayville, Plainfield and Putnam, Day Kimball HomeCare, Hospice & Palliative Care of Northeastern CT, Day Kimball HomeMakers, and Day Kimball Medical Group. Its service area includes Northeast Connecticut as well as nearby Massachusetts and Rhode Island communities. Day Kimball Healthcare's comprehensive network offers more than 1,400 employees including nearly 300 associated, highly-skilled physicians, surgeons and specialists. Its website is daykimball.org.

Day Kimball Health is an Affirmative Action / equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal opportunity to all applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected under local, state or federal laws.

Day Kimball is a smoke free environment.

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