WIC Director - Limited Term Employment

Status:   Full Time, Exempt (Limited Term Employment)

Starting Wage Range: $38.71/hr. - $42.65/hr.

Department: Human Services & Health

Position Open Until Filled 

Please submit Resume with application

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS 

1. Oversees implementation of the WIC Program policies and procedures; schedules, monitors, and evaluates WIC Clinics.
2. Develops and implements policies and procedures for the WIC project. Ensures WIC programs operate in compliance with County, State, and Federal laws and regulations; schedules, monitors, and evaluates WIC Clinics.
3. Completes all required documentation and reports for WIC, State, and Department policies and guidelines.
4. Assesses and determines WIC program applicant’s eligibility and certifies them according to WIC policies/procedures and professional nutrition standards.
5. Assesses clients for nutritional counseling needs and provides nutrition counseling. Determines and prescribes WIC food package and breast pumps based upon assessed needs. Documents assessment and services provided.
6. Completes nutrition assessments and provides nutrition counseling as needed for participants of departmental programs. Documents care provided. Communicates nutrition care provided to client care coordinators within confidentiality policies.
7. Refers clients according to assessment to other public health programs or community resources within confidentiality policies. Prepares related documents.
8. May assist issuing WIC benefits, weighing and measuring infants/children, performing finger or heel stick blood draws, scheduling, determining client income, etc., as required.
9. Develops nutrition education materials needed for departmental programs and services.
10. Serves as Breastfeeding Peer Counselor Coordinator and effectively implements the Breastfeeding Peer Counseling program.
11. Responsible for related vendor training, monitoring, and compliance checks as needed.
12. Other duties as assigned.

REQUIRED JOB COMPETENCIES

• Knowledge of the principles of normal and therapeutic nutrition.
• Knowledge of nutrition and dietary assessment techniques including anthropometric, biochemical, clinical, and dietary.
• Knowledge of the interrelationships between health and social service programs and appropriate community resources.
• Knowledge of human behavior and techniques for effecting change.
• Ability to interpret nutritional and dietary data.
• Skill in preparing reports, health, and medical histories.
• Knowledge of laws and regulations that affect the delivery of services provided by the Department.
• Knowledge of community resources, and alternative care resources.
• Knowledge of applicable State statutes.
• Knowledge of and sensitivity to cultural differences and special needs of various minority groups, and ability to consult with other staff regarding these.
• Ability and skill to relate to clients in stressful or crisis situations.
• General knowledge of interviewing and supportive counseling techniques.
• General knowledge of social casework techniques.
• Knowledge of social, economic, and health problems of basic human behavior and of available assistance and rehabilitative services and techniques.

• Knowledge of human service needs assessment methodologies.
• Knowledge of legal requirements including privacy, resident rights, confidentiality, and non-discrimination.
• Knowledge of goals, principles, and practices of human service programs, program administration, and program goals and their intended impacts.

• Knowledge of the County and Department’s operating requirements, policies, procedures, and practices; and local, State, and Federal regulations related to department programs and operations.
• Skill in analyzing complex administrative information and issues, defining problems and evaluating alternatives, and recommending methods, procedures and techniques for resolution of issues.
• Ability to research and analyze detailed information and make appropriate recommendations.
• Ability to develop, interpret, and implement regulations, policies, procedures, written instructions, general correspondence, and other department-specific documents.
• Ability to adapt and take control of situations, dictating subordinate activities in a responsible manner.
• Ability to establish and maintain accurate records of assigned activities and operations.
• Ability to interpret and implement local policies and procedures; written instructions, general correspondence; Federal, State, a