Registered Dietitian

UMATILLA-MORROW COUNTY HEAD START • Hermiston, OR

18d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Registered Dietitian will provide individual counseling and case management for WIC participants and Head Start Children who are at high nutritional risk, and ensure nutrition education quality control. This position is 36 hours per week with a hybrid option available. The role involves assessing nutritional status, developing care plans, providing counseling using Motivational Interviewing techniques, documenting SOAP notes, approving medical documentation, and providing resources and education to families. The dietitian will also promote breastfeeding, coordinate with community resources, and provide technical assistance to other WIC staff. Additionally, the role includes coordinating nutrition services with other WIC Program operations, teaching group nutrition education classes, and providing nutrition education at early childhood family nights. The WIC Training Supervisor component involves overseeing and documenting training and staff development within the WIC program, working with the state WIC program on training initiatives, coordinating completion of training modules, and assessing training needs. The position also requires providing Nutrition Assessment information for WIC/Head Start children to the Early Childhood Services Department. General staff responsibilities include participating in meetings, maintaining professional standards, improving skills, fulfilling the role of a mandated reporter, being present at work for consistency, and being a positive team member. The employee must comprehend, analyze, and make inferences from written material, and produce clear written documentation.

Requirements

• A Registered Dietitian (RD) with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR).
• A bachelor’s in a health profession, such as nutrition, nursing or health education.
• An Oregon Licensed Dietitian (LD).
• RD eligible also considered, but must pass RD exam within 6 months of employment.
• You must be a health professional; A health professional is a person with a bachelor’s or master’s degree in a health profession, such as nutrition, nursing or health education. This includes physicians, physician assistants, registered nurses, dietitians, public health educators and, lactation consultants that have passed a board certification and are IBCLCs.
• You must be a Competent Professional Authority (CPA).
• Observe, compare, and monitor behaviors, records and data to determine compliance with prescribed standards.
• Comprehend, analyze, and make inferences and references from written material.
• Sit for long periods of time with keyboard and do data entry at a computer.
• Occasionally required to stand, use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.
• Frequently required to drive, walk and climb stairs in the office and in a variety of community based and home settings.
• Occasional filing is required. This would require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets and bending as necessary.
• Produce written documentation with clearly organized thoughts using proper sentence construction, punctuation, and grammar.
• Current enrollment in the Child Care Division’s Central Background Registry.
• Current physical examination, drug screen, and TB screen documentation prior to hire.
• Desire to work with low income children and their families.
• Communicate effectively with staff, families, children, and the public using the telephone and in face to face, one to one, and in group settings.
• Fluent in English both verbally and written.

Nice To Haves

• A master’s in a health profession, such as nutrition, nursing or health education.
• Two years’ experience in Community Nutrition working with Maternal Child Health is recommended, with WIC experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assess nutritional status and special needs of women, infants and children from health records, dietary questionnaires and knowledge of community nutrition issues.
• Provide counseling and develop care plans for women, infants, and children who meet high risk criteria in protocol.
• Work with participants and/or their caregivers to help them set their own goal for change using Motivational Interviewing technique.
• Record proper SOAP documentation within participant’s TWIST file.
• Complete certifications on high risk participants as needed.
• Approve completed Medical Documentation Forms as outlined in WIC policy.
• Provide consultation to families of Head Start children through a referral system.
• Provide resources and education to Head Start families via in person, virtual or phone and on some occasions in the families home.
• Maintain confidentiality of all records.
• Make referrals to and coordinate care with health care providers and community agencies when appropriate.
• Maintain professional standards with update training, as needed.
• Ensure breastfeeding is promoted as the first choice for infant feeding.
• Keep current with the latest breastfeeding information and inform other local agency staff of new recommendations.
• Coordinate with community breastfeeding resources.
• Coordinate nutrition services with other WIC Program operations.
• Provide technical assistance and consultation to other local agency staff, including chart reviews and development of care plans per certifier request.
• Share nutrition education resources and information with staff.
• Teach group nutrition education classes as needed.
• Provide nutrition education at early childhood family nights as requested.
• Comply with all federal, state and local agency policies, procedures and regulations.
• Complete Oregon WIC Training Modules as required for position.
• Oversees and documents training and staff development within the WIC program.
• Works with the state WIC program to implement training initiatives.
• Coordinates completion of the appropriate Oregon WIC training modules and online courses by WIC staff in the time frame set out in policy.
• Coordinates continuing education for WIC staff, including quarterly in services.
• Assesses, plans, implements and evaluates strategies to meet training and staff development needs within the WIC program.
• Assures effective, appropriate and accurate information and services are provided to WIC participants by trained WIC staff, by conducting regular onsite staff observations.
• Provide the Early Childhood Services Department with Nutrition Assessment information of WIC/Head Start children.
• Participate in staff meetings, conferences, training sessions and workshops as assigned.
• Demonstrate familiarity with employment policies, performance standards, work plan and objectives of Agency.
• Maintain congenial and respectful relations with staff, children, families and community.
• Keep current and accurate records and file reports on time.
• Maintain confidentiality in regards to staff and family information.
• Maintain objectives and professional standards.
• Improve self skills and education.
• Fulfill role as mandated reporter as stated in Child Abuse and Neglect Policy.
• Be present at work in order to provide consistency of services.
• Be a contributory team member in a positive/productive manner.
• Demonstrate commitment to mission, values, and policies in the performance of daily duties.
• Comprehend, analyze, and make inferences and references from written material.
• Produce written documentation with clearly organized thoughts using proper sentence construction, punctuation, and grammar.
• Apply safe practices in the performance of duties.
• Reporting of unsafe or hazardous working conditions and/or any injury immediately.
• Complying with Agency safety standards.
• Participate in emergency drills.
• Promote a culture of safe environments in the workplace.

Benefits

• Equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals in all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, job assignments, promotions, career advancement opportunities, working conditions, scheduling, disciplinary action, termination of employment, compensation, and access to benefits and training.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level