SENIOR PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITIONIST SUPV - 64005785 1

Requisition No: 880086 

Agency: Department of Health

Working Title: SENIOR PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITIONIST SUPV - 64005785 1

 Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 64005785 

Salary:  $63,000 - $67,000 

Posting Closing Date: 07/30/2026 

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                                                                                              SENIOR PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITIONIST SUPERVISOR

 

                                                                                                                              Open Competitive

 

Thank you for your interest in career opportunities with the Florida Department of Health in Polk County.  If you are looking to establish a successful career in Public Health, you have come to the right place.  Many of our innovative and successful health programs are recognized throughout Florida.  We hope you decide to join our team!  Applicants will be contacted directly if selected for an interview.

 

Your Specific Responsibilities:

This position spends the majority of the time engaged in supervisory responsibilities. This includes communicating with, motivating, training, and evaluating employees in addition to planning and directing employees' work. The incumbent has the authority to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline subordinate employees or effectively recommend such action. The incumbent will also be required to develop performance expectations, meet with staff regularly to discuss performance, complete performance reviews, maintain vacation and work schedules, ensuring proper coverage, and complete timesheets.

Responsible for the supervision of staff Including appraisals, planning, and directing their work, approving leave, having the authority for hiring, and taking disciplinary action or effectively recommending such actions.

The incumbent is part of a global public health organization and is expected to support the Florida Department of Health in Polk County in its mission to protect, promote, and improve the health of all people in Florida through integrated state, county and community efforts and its vision to be the Healthiest State in the Nation.

Furthermore, the incumbent is expected to incorporate the agency values of Innovation, Collaboration, Accountability, Responsiveness and Excellence in all aspects of their work.  

This is a highly responsible public health nutrition position providing services to clients or the community at any site or location in the geographic area covered by the Polk/Hardee WIC Program. The primary work of the position is carrying out WIC Program responsibilities at the Lakeland Central WIC site.  This is the most responsible WIC position at this office, providing supervision, coordinating activities, evaluating services, and implementing improvements designed to improve patient care.

Management Duties:

• Supervision of the WIC program in Lakeland Central.  Supervision of subordinate staff.
• Interviews potential subordinate employees and recommends their hire
• Trains new employees according to local, state, and federal rules and guidelines
• Evaluates employees according to previously determined standards, meeting state-imposed deadlines
• Plans site schedule of subordinate staff.
• Recognizes and rewards high performing employees; disciplines employees as necessary
• Communicates with employees on a regular basis and uses team building skills to motivate and guide the team to improved performance
• Uses time management skills and delegation to stay on track with all assignments and work responsibilities
• Takes and resolves client complaints, ensuring customer satisfaction as much as possible
• Ensures the accurate completion of all inventories, purchasing requirements, and p-card transactions according to local, state, and federal guidelines
• Works closely with health care professionals to provide an integrated approach to nutrition and health care; coordinates nutrition services at th