Educator - WIC Nutrition

MaineGeneral Health•Waterville, ME

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About The Position

Provides evidence-based nutrition, health, and breastfeeding education and counseling to WIC-eligible clients. Determines nutritional and medical risk, issues WIC food benefits, and supports daily office operations. Promotes community outreach through partnerships with local programs that serve WIC participants. Conducts nutrition and health assessments in accordance with WIC policies, including eligibility determination, collection and interpretation of anthropometric and hematologic data, and documentation of medical and dietary information. Assigns risk categories, establishes nutrition goals, and issues appropriate food benefits. Delivers individualized and group nutrition counseling using motivational interviewing and evidence-based education. Addresses client barriers, sets achievable goals, and refers high-risk participants to a WIC Registered Dietitian as needed. Develops and presents group education materials, newsletters, and visual displays tailored to client literacy and cultural needs. Supports community outreach by coordinating off-site clinics, maintaining relationships with community partners and vendors, and ensuring equitable access to WIC services. Maintains professional competency through required state trainings, continuing education, and participation in staff meetings and special projects.

Nice To Haves

Licensed or Registered Dietary Technician.

Responsibilities

Provides evidence-based nutrition, health, and breastfeeding education and counseling to WIC-eligible clients.
Determines nutritional and medical risk.
Issues WIC food benefits.
Supports daily office operations.
Promotes community outreach through partnerships with local programs that serve WIC participants.
Conducts nutrition and health assessments in accordance with WIC policies, including eligibility determination, collection and interpretation of anthropometric and hematologic data, and documentation of medical and dietary information.
Assigns risk categories.
Establishes nutrition goals.
Delivers individualized and group nutrition counseling using motivational interviewing and evidence-based education.
Addresses client barriers.
Sets achievable goals.
Refers high-risk participants to a WIC Registered Dietitian as needed.
Develops and presents group education materials, newsletters, and visual displays tailored to client literacy and cultural needs.
Supports community outreach by coordinating off-site clinics, maintaining relationships with community partners and vendors, and ensuring equitable access to WIC services.
Maintains professional competency through required state trainings, continuing education, and participation in staff meetings and special projects.

Benefits

We offer quality health, dental, and vision benefits and wellness programs and resources to provide employees access to resources for a healthy lifestyle and help manage health care costs.
Employees have access to industry-leading leave for new parents.
A generous earned time plan is offered to all employees - We believe employees need and deserve time away from work to observe holidays, be with family, go on vacation, or simply take care of themselves.
When life gets challenging, employees have access to our Employee Assistance Program for employees and anyone in their household.
An employee discount program is available to all employees for services provided by MaineGeneral Medical Center.
Tuition Reimbursement is available to all employees to further develop skills and career.
We offer eligible employees up to 2% of eligible pay in 403(b) company-matching contributions plus another 2% in the 401(a) retirement income plan.
Three insurance plans are available to protect your family from the sudden loss of income in the event of your death, terminal illness or serious injury from accident.
We offer both short-term and long-term disability insurance to replace a portion of your income if you become disabled and cannot work for a period of time.
Helping our employees develop their skills and grow their careers is critical to how we retain our talent and sustain our business. We do this by offering our teammates a variety of leadership-supported programs and learning and development resources for every stage of their professional development. We know that our employees are our most valuable resource - they're how we grow our business and care for our community.