Community Health Dietitian in East Wenatchee, Washington at Chelan-Douglas Health District
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Job Description
Summary Description: The Community Health Dietitian develops and implements strategies to promote healthy eating to reduce the burden of chronic disease for our overall population. Serves as a resource on nutrition and dietetics to nurses, health educators or other health care providers within the agency and in the community. Responsible for working with community partners to identify gaps in nutrition education, such as obesity, diabetes, poor nutrition and food insecurity in the population and is responsible for creating and implementing programs to address them. Serves as the Registered Dietitian for the Woman Infants and Children (WIC) Program.
To ensure the highest level of services are provided, additional duties and responsibilities may be assigned as needed.
Job Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions):
- Provide nutrition in-service and consultation to health district staff.
- Identify problem areas in nutrition within a community or population.
- Develop strategies that helps improve nutrition in schools and workplaces.
- Provide educational resources to the community to help them make better nutritional choices.
- Develop programs and policies for institutions that improve nutrition.
- Conduct cooking classes that focus on healthy meal preparation.
- Work towards reducing chronic disease by increasing access and consumption of healthy foods/beverages, improving physical activity opportunities and linkages to critical community resources.
- Collect and interpret data and emerging health trends in nutrition.
- Provide timely, state and locally relevant and accurate information statewide and to communities on chronic disease prevention.
- Identify state and local chronic disease (specifically nutrition-related disease prevention) community assets.
- Develop and implement a prioritized prevention plan and seek resources and advocate for high priority policy initiatives to reduce statewide and community rates of chronic disease related to nutrition.
WIC Job Duties:
- Assure compliance with WIC policies and procedures.
- Conduct nutrition assessments for high-risk WIC participants.
- Provide evidence-based nutrition education to WIC participants and certifiers.
- Develop specialized care plans for high-risk participants.
- Certify participants
- Promote breastfeeding
- Coordinate with healthcare teams to improve community health outcomes
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- Ability to provide effective nutrition counseling to members of various cultural, age and economic groups.
- Ability to develop care plans and coordinate client care with other team members.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Excellent organization skills, ability to manage workload.
- Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate activities, projects and programs in order to meet defined public health measures.
- Policy development- establish procedures and/or protocols.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Suite.
Required Qualifications (Minimum):
- Current license to practice as registered (certified preferred) dietitian in state of Washington.
- A valid Washington State driver's license or the ability to obtain one within two weeks of hire.
Desired Qualifications:
- Bilingual, Bicultural.
- 2 years of experience in a community setting.
**A combination of education, training, and experience which has provided theoretical and practical knowledge will be evaluated for equivalency.
Physical Requirements:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job:
- Visually or otherwise identify, observe and assess distance, color and depth, required to regularly communicate with others and exchange accurate information
- Able to operate a computer and other office productivity equipment
- Able to remain stationary at a computer for extended periods of time and move around their assigned work space
- Ability to comply with the health policy or requested accommodation.
- May be required to wear PPE as needed.
- Frequently move up to 25 pounds and occasionally move up to 50 pounds