Nutritionist

Title: Nutritionist

State Role Title: Prog Admin Specialist I

Hiring Range: $48,234.75 - $51,028.56

Pay Band: 4

Agency: Virginia Department of Health

Location: RAPPAHANNOCK-CAROLINE

Agency Website: https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/rappahannock/

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

Provides nutrition services to clients in a variety of settings within a district. Characteristic activities include conducting patient nutritional assessments and evaluations in the clinic, school and community settings, develop and monitor nutritional care plans and food packages. Certifies clients for participation in available public health programs, schedules, provides and documents basic and secondary/high risk nutrition education; makes referrals to programs such as Medicaid, AFDC, and SNAP benefits. May perform other related administrative tasks.

Direct Care/WIC Services
• Provides WIC nutrition services and direct care in clinics; assures efficient delivery of patient care services that meet local, state and federal standards, policies and procedures
• Assesses the nutritional status of pregnant and breastfeeding women, infants and children using health and nutritional history, laboratory data and anthropomorphic measures to determine nutritional eligibility of applicants; assures assessment is appropriately documented and measures correctly obtained and recorded
• Develops and implements care plan based on assessment; involves patient in care plan development; refers patients with suspected or potential health problems to clinician for further evaluation/treatment
• Schedules, provides and documents basic and secondary/high risk nutrition education for all WIC participants according to WIC policies and procedures
2. Nutrition Education
• Works with appropriate staff to create targeted nutrition education classes; ensures that nutrition education classes are made available for all participants; facilitates nutrition education classes to participants through individual or group discussion or a child focused setting utilizing interactive techniques to engage the in the activity; documents nutrition education for each participant according to guidelines
• Serves as a resource to representatives of the district and community organizations in interpreting WIC guidelines
• May develop educational material for WIC, nursing, and program support staff
3. Breastfeeding Support
��� Ensures breastfeeding support, encouragement, promotion and counseling is promoted to pregnant and breastfeeding women; strives to increase breastfeeding rates and duration of breastfeeding amongst WIC eligible clients in the district
• Assesses and counsels mothers with complex breastfeeding situations; provides breastfeeding support and follow up; refers mothers to community resources and encourages attendance in breastfeeding education classes
• Issues breast pumps and breastfeeding supplies/accessories when appropriate and documents all information as required
• Maintains a breastfeeding friendly environment
• Participates in continuing breastfeeding education
• May serve as the District Breastfeeding Coordinator: coordinates Breastfeeding Peer Counselor program and supervises Breastfeeding Peer Counselors; provides technical supervision to District WIC staff regarding breastfeeding initiatives
4. Administrative Support & Other Duties
• Participates in other activities of the Nutrition Program and the Health Department, including program planning, staff meetings, orientation of new staff, and provision of in-service programs
• Provides reports to WIC Coordinator as requested; handles client records and other confidential information with care, according to established procedures and HIPAA policy
Responsible for maintaining clinic functions as needed, including but not limited to reminder phone calls, missed appointment phone calls and letters, inventory, completing the failure to pick up benefit list, etc.
• May be required to perform other duties as assigned; may include functions in support of an emergency declaration

VDH requires all Health-Care Personnel (HCP) to provide documentation of immunization or evidence of immunity to the following: hepatitis B, measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella; a one-time dose of tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (Tdap) vaccine regardless of the interval since the last dose of tetanus-diphtheria (Td) vaccine was administered (Td or Tdap boosters shall be received every 10 years); and the current year's seasonal influenza vaccination.

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