WIC CPA/NUTRITIONIST

Greater Baden Medical Services, Inc.•Capitol Heights, MD

About The Position

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

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in community nutrition, dietetics, food and human nutrition, food systems management, nutrition education, or equivalent discipline.
Communication – Listen and verbally in order to solve problems and provide information and direction, ensuring the experience is a positive one. Record issues and resolutions to maintain accurate records and data for further analysis by management.
Customer Focus – Connects meaningfully with customers to build emotional engagement and patient advocacy. Simplifies complexity and integrates internal efforts to deliver an optimal customer experience.
Interpersonal Skills – Work closely with other team members to effectively support their work so that solutions can be effectively implemented. Serves as a liaison for various staff and/or management and acts as the Point of Contact.
Organization – Effectively managing tasks and information and organize information to ensure a timely response to questions. Develops and uses systems to organize and keep track of information or work progress.
Technical Skills – Understands office productivity applications to document and track requirements. A fundamental understanding of the business technology infrastructure, healthcare systems, databases, and software. Accurately creates, generates and maintains reports & documents utilizing databases, spreadsheets and communications.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in community nutrition, dietetics, food and human nutrition, food systems management, nutrition education, or equivalent discipline.
Bilingual

Responsibilities

Assist with the plan, implement and evaluate nutrition services and breastfeeding promotional plan for an assigned population. Participate in breastfeeding activities.
Organize and conduct the nutrition component of Greater Baden health education program.
Provide direct nutrition and diet therapy counseling services (primary and secondary education) to Greater Baden clients and county residents through individual and group counseling. Determines and documents nutritional risks, and provide high-risk counseling to WIC participants.
Develop, review, evaluate and distribute nutrition education materials.
Serve as a resource person in nutrition matters to CPPAs.
Analyze population characteristics within the service area and initiate outreach efforts for population subgroups whose characteristics indicate special nutritional requirements.
Provide in-service training and nutrition education materials to paraprofessionals and support staff.
Provide information on food assistance programs, prescribe food packages, and initiate referrals to appropriate programs.
Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with local health agencies, community groups and vendors.
Prescribes high risk (nutrition care) counseling, and food packages that provide a ready-to-use infant formula, special or non-contract standard infant formula, or special formula for women or children with special dietary needs.
Research information in order to keep abreast of current practice, participate in food and nutrition surveys, and prepare reports for professional and other use.
Performs biochemical and anthropometric assessments, data entry, check preparation and distribution, and participant intake procedures.
Assist in health and clerical inventories as assigned.
Participate in team meetings; in-service meetings and applicable workshops.
Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor.