Seeking self-motivated and adaptable individuals with outstanding customer service skills to provide services for the Nutrition and Health promotion branch, which may entail working in the following programs:  Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Supplemental Nutrition Program, CalFresh for Healthy Living, plus our Integrative Nutrition program working with Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) or other nutrition programs.

These federal assistance programs provide supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition information for low income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and infants and children up to age five who found to be at nutritional risk.

CalFresh for Healthy Living focuses on Policy, Systems and Environmental Change work. Our FQHC dietitians are credentialed and work as FQHC providers.

Duties include (but not limited to):

• Assist the Supervising Nutritionist
• Individual nutrition counseling (in person or via phone)
• Group education/classes (in person or virtually)
• Computer use:  client data entry; determining client eligibility for WIC; create presentations, etc.
• Assist the site supervisor in administrative duties
• In the absence of the site supervisor, assume the lead role at the site
• Collaborate and partner with staff, organizations, etc.

Possession of a valid Certificate of Registration as a dietitian as issued by the Commission on Dietetic Registration is required.

• Develops and implements basic programs of instruction in diet therapy, nutrition, and diet counseling techniques for program and project staff; develops needed nutrition education materials.

• Teaches and counsels people of various age groups to select and/or prepare and use the foods that will best nourish their bodies, taking into consideration physical, financial, social, and emotional needs, as well as personal preferences and cultural patterns.

• Performs nutritional assessments on individuals prior to enrollment in programs; determines, through application of various published standards, whether individuals are at nutritional risk.

• Gives direct nutritional and dietetic consultation to individuals with special nutritional needs; plans and reviews menus for nutrition sites where meals are prepared and served for program participants.

• Conducts studies to determine the nature and extent of nutrition needs and problems of the population served and to evaluate the effects of nutritional and dietetic services being offered to participants.

• Contacts health professionals and makes presentations to relevant parties in the community in order to promote the services being offered through the nutrition component of specific department programs.

• Oversees and participates in the preparation of required records, reports, and evaluation on nutrition component activities for specific department programs.

• Provides technical training and functional supervision for program staff assigned to the nutrition component.

Experience: One year of professional experience in nutrition education and individual counseling services within a community or public health setting. (Possession of a Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in Nutrition or a closely related field may be substituted for one year-required experience.)

Knowledge of: The chemical and physiological processes and functions of specific nutrients in meeting people’s nutritional needs throughout the life cycle; the principles of food selection, purchasing, preparation, processing, and meal planning in relation to appeal, cost, nutritive value, and quality; a variety of dietary patterns and the particular food requirements of maternal, geriatric, economically disadvantaged, physically handicapped, and other groups having special nutritional needs; health-education methods as they apply to the field of nutrition; typical community sources of nutritional data and aid.

Ability to: Implement a community public health nutrition program; analyze the nutritional content of diets; develop and present nutrition education programs; advise and train employees and clients on how to recognize and deal with various dietary and nutrition problems; develop and maintain effective working relationships with health professionals, community health organizations, co-workers, nutrition program participants, and other groups and individuals encountered in the course of the job; write clear, concise reports and correspondence and maintain complete records.

BASED ON THE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS RECEIVED, THIS POSTING MAY CLOSE WITHOUT NOTICE.
For specific questions regarding this position, contact Jesus Colin at JColin@rivco.org.