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About the Role
The role requires in-depth knowledge of nutrition principles and their applications to the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program. The individual must be responsive to participant needs, especially those requiring advanced nutrition expertise (High Risk), and coordinate the planning and development of nutrition treatment plans.
Responsibilities
- Perform all duties of the Nutrition Assistant staff and program support.
- Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of the WIC program and communicate its purpose.
- Demonstrate understanding of nutrition issues for pregnancy, breastfeeding, postpartum, infancy, and early childhood.
- Develop and implement individual care plans (ICPs) and high-risk care plans.
- Oversee the high-risk care of all participants.
- Provide oversight and guidance to Nutrition Assistant staff.
- Coordinate nutrition education, including breastfeeding promotion and support, responsive to high-risk participant needs.
- Serve as a Designated Breastfeeding Expert (DBE) in NYWIC as needed.
- Refer high-risk participants to other health-related and social services.
- Track high-risk participants’ progress and document outcomes.
- Ensure efficient assessment and education processes.
- Provide leadership in planning, conducting, and evaluating Participant Centered Nutrition Education services.
- Provide leadership and assist in orienting, training, and mentoring new local agency staff.
- Provide leadership in developing, conducting, and evaluating nutrition training for local agency staff.
- Implement optional and required individual care plans for participants, especially high-risk ones.
- Provide and document Participant Centered Nutrition Assessment (PCNA) core competencies during counseling.
- Utilize a participant-centered approach including open-ended questions, body language, affirmations, and reflective listening.
- Demonstrate understanding of how sociocultural issues impact participant nutrition behaviors.
- Collect relevant information from all sources, including anthropometric, hematological, clinical, lifestyle, breastfeeding, and visual observations.
- Assist in the collection of onsite hematology according to OSHA and NYSDOH policy.
- Utilize critical thinking to collect and analyze relevant information.
- Assign and generate appropriate nutrition risk criteria.
- Summarize the assessment by conveying pertinent risks to the participant/caretaker.
- Work with participants to prioritize needs and concerns.
- Demonstrate knowledge of community resources and refer WIC participants appropriately.
- Document all mandatory and non-mandatory information.
- Provide facilitated group counseling using Talk Listen Connect (TLC) techniques.
- Conduct a complete nutrition assessment and determine program eligibility.
- Provide breastfeeding information and issuance of breast pumps.
- Prescribe, tailor, authorize, issue, and reissue any food package.
- Review and approve formula requests requiring medical documentation in consultation with the HCP.
- Provide and document follow-up referrals to other health and social services agencies.
- Provide participants with appropriate NYSDOH forms and letters regarding certification.
- Assist in collecting data for the daily operation of the WIC program.
- Transfer and terminate participants according to NYSDOH NYWIC policy.
- Maintain good public relations and keep staff, participants, and community residents informed of WIC education programs.
- Attend NYSDOH nutrition education meetings, seminars, and trainings.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Ability to interact with Clients and staff through active listening, proper business language and tone of voice.
- Ability to apply common sense to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
- Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
- Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
- Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of an organization.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
- Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
- Regularly sits.
- Frequently uses hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear.
- Occasionally stands and walks.
- Occasionally lifts and or moves up to 10 pounds.
- Knowledge and ability to use computers and related technology effectively.
Skills
- Nutrition principles
- Participant Centered Nutrition Assessment (PCNA)
- Nutrition treatment plan development
- WIC program knowledge
- Nutrition issues for pregnancy, breastfeeding, postpartum, infancy, and early childhood
- Individual care plan (ICP) development
- High-risk care management
- Nutrition education coordination
- Breastfeeding promotion and support
- Designated Breastfeeding Expert (DBE) functions
- Referral to health and social services
- Participant progress tracking and documentation
- Assessment and education process management
- Participant Centered Nutrition Education services leadership
- Staff orientation, training, and mentoring
- Nutrition training development and delivery
- Participant-centered approach
- Open-ended questions
- Body language interpretation
- Affirmations
- Reflective listening
- Sociocultural issue awareness
- Information collection (anthropometric, hematological, clinical, lifestyle, breastfeeding, visual)
- Hematology collection
- Critical thinking
- Nutrition risk criteria assignment
- Community resource knowledge
- Documentation
- Facilitated group counseling
- Talk Listen Connect (TLC) techniques
- Nutrition assessment
- Program eligibility determination
- Breastfeeding information
- Breast pump issuance
- Food package prescription, tailoring, authorization, issuance, and reissue
- Formula request review and approval
- Follow-up referrals
- NYSDOH forms and letters provision
- Data collection for program operations
- Participant transfer and termination
- Public relations
- NYSDOH nutrition education meetings, seminars, and trainings attendance
Location
- Bronx, NY
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Not specified
Education Level
- Registered Dietician Nutritionist (RD/RDN)
- Bachelors in nutrition
- Masters in nutrition
Salary/Compensations
- $29.00 - $30.73 Hourly