Job Description

Essential Functions:

• Provides nutrition care to high-risk women, infants and children under the supervision of the senior nutritionist, including all aspects of:
• Anthropometric and hematological data collection
• Dietary assessment, nutritional risk assessment and food package prescription
• Nutrition and breastfeeding counseling and education
• Documentation and data entry
• Referrals to other health and social services
• Follow-up nutrition education
• Participates in planning, development and evaluation of:
• Educational materials and group nutrition education sessions
• Participant counseling and education strategies
• Nutrition in-services and outreach activities
• Nutrition policies
• Communicates with health care community on issues pertaining to patient needs.
• Create healthy diet plans for maternal patients with obesity and chronic care issues
• Provides nutrition care for low-risk applicants and participants as needed.
• Assists in the training of WIC Program Assistants.
• Participates in quality assurance activities.

Required/Preferred Education, Experience and Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Public Health Nutrition, Nutrition, Foods and Nutrition, or Nutrition Education
• Master's degree in Public Health Nutrition, Nutrition, or Food and Nutrition preferred
• Registration with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, or licensure with the North Carolina Board of Registration of Dietitians and Nutritionists preferred
• One year of experience in clinical or community nutrition preferred
• Demonstrated leadership and decision-making capabilities
• Excellent communications skills
• Interest in nutrition and maternal child health
• Bilingual Spanish preferred.
• Preferred previous experience in the North Carolina WIC Program

CWWCWC is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to inclusion and diversity.

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