WIC Nutritionist

Job Summary:

A WIC CPA is a non-licensed professional providing nutrition services to clients in a public health or community setting. The incumbent receives close supervision from the Lead CPA and WIC Director.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Assist with the planning, implementation, and evaluation of nutrition services and breastfeeding promotional plans for assigned populations.
2. Organize and conduct the nutrition component of the Greater Baden health education program.
3. Provide direct nutrition and diet therapy counseling services to clients and county residents through individual and group counseling.
4. Develop, review, and distribute nutrition education materials.
5. Serve as a resource person in nutrition matters to CPPAs.
6. Analyze population characteristics within the service area and initiate outreach efforts for population subgroups with special nutritional requirements.
7. Provide in-service training and nutrition education materials to paraprofessionals and support staff.
8. Prescribe food packages and initiate referrals to appropriate programs.
9. Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with local health agencies, community groups, and vendors.

Requirements:

1. Bachelor's degree in community nutrition, dietetics, food and human nutrition, food systems management, nutrition education, or equivalent discipline.

Competencies:

Communication - Listen and verbally to solve problems and provide information and direction. Record issues and resolutions to maintain accurate records and data.

Customer Focus - Connect with customers to build emotional engagement and patient advocacy.

Interpersonal Skills - Work closely with team members to support their work and implement solutions.

Organization - Effectively manage tasks and information to respond to questions.

Technical Skills - Understand office productivity applications and accurately create reports and documents.

Work Environment:

This job operates in a professional office environment. The role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines.

Physical and Mental Demands:

1. Ability to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time.
2. Ability to cope with stress.
3. The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office.
4. Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery.
5. The person in this position frequently communicates with patients and/or employees.
6. Occasionally moves office equipment weighing up to 25 pounds.
7. Performs a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another.
8. Performs with frequent interruption or distractions.
9. Adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate.
10. Ability to interact appropriately with colleagues for different purposes in different context.
11. Expressing or exchanging information by means of the spoken word.
12. Ability to judge distances and spatial relationships.
13. Cognitive ability to analyze, count, summarize, and synthesize information.
14. Ability to recognize social or professional behavioral cues.

Language Skills:

Ability to read and interpret written or verbal documents and instructions. Ability to speak effectively to patients, employees, and/or stakeholders of the organization.

Travel:

Must be able to float between Greater Baden Medical Services, Inc. Capitol Heights and Brandywine locations as required.