WIC CPA/NUTRITIONIST

About the role

A WIC CPA is the non-licensed work providing nutrition services to clients in a public health or community setting. Incumbent receives close supervision from the Lead CPA and WIC Director.

Responsibilities

• Assist with the plan, implement and evaluate nutrition services and breastfeeding promotional plan for an assigned population.
• Participate in breastfeeding activities.
• Organize and conduct the nutrition component of Greater Baden health education program.
• Provide direct nutrition and diet therapy counseling services (primary and secondary education) to Greater Baden clients and county residents through individual and group counseling.
• Determines and documents nutritional risks, and provide high-risk counseling to WIC participants.
• Develop, review, evaluate and distribute nutrition education materials.
• Serve as a resource person in nutrition matters to CPPAs.
• Analyze population characteristics within the service area and initiate outreach efforts for population subgroups whose characteristics indicate special nutritional requirements.
• Provide in-service training and nutrition education materials to paraprofessionals and support staff.
• Provide information on food assistance programs, prescribe food packages, and initiate referrals to appropriate programs.
• Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with local health agencies, community groups and vendors.
• Prescribes high risk (nutrition care) counseling, and food packages that provide a ready-to-use infant formula, special or non-contract standard infant formula, or special formula for women or children with special dietary needs.
• Research information in order to keep abreast of current practice, participate in food and nutrition surveys, and prepare reports for professional and other use.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in community nutrition, dietetics, food and human nutrition, food systems management, nutrition education, or equivalent discipline.
• Substitutions: Master’s degree in community nutrition, dietetics, food and human nutrition, food systems management, nutrition education, or equivalent discipline.

Qualifications

• Core Values: Quality, Respect, Integrity, Equity, Teamwork, Professionalism, Commitment
• Supervisory Responsibility: None
• Managerial Responsibilities: None

Competencies

• Communication: Listen and verbally in order to solve problems and provide information and direction, ensuring the experience is a positive one. Record issues and resolutions to maintain accurate records and data for further analysis by management.
• Customer Focus: Connects meaningfully with customers to build emotional engagement and patient advocacy. Simplifies complexity and integrates internal efforts to deliver an optimal customer experience.
• Interpersonal Skills: Work closely with other team members to effectively support their work so that solutions can be effectively implemented. Serves as a liaison for various staff and/or management and acts as the Point of Contact.
• Organization: Effectively managing tasks and information and organize information to ensure a timely response to questions. Develops and uses systems to organize and keep track of information or work progress.
• Technical Skills: Understands office productivity applications to document and track requirements. A fundamental understanding of the business technology infrastructure, healthcare systems, databases, and software. Accurately creates, generates and maintains reports & documents utilizing databases, spreadsheets and communications.

Physical and Mental Demands

• Ability to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time.
• Ability to cope with stress.
• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine and computer printer.
• Frequent communication with patients and/or employees.
• Must be able to summarize and exchange accurate information.
• Occasionally moves office equipment weighing up to 25 pounds.
• Performs a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another.
• Performs with frequent interruption or distractions.
• Adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate.
• Ability to interact appropriately with colleagues for different purposes in different contexts.
• Expressing or exchanging information by means of the spoken word, or to convey detailed spoken instructions accurately, loudly or quickly.
• Ability to judge distances and spatial relationships to perceive objects where and as they actually are.
• Cognitive ability to analyze, count, summarize and synthesize information from multiple sources.
• Ability to recognize social or professional behavioral cues.

Language Skills

• Ability to read and interpret written or verbal documents and instructions.
• Ability to speak effectively to patients, employees and/or stakeholders of the organization.

Travel

• Must be able to float between Greater Baden Medical Services, Inc. Capitol Heights and Brandywine locations as required.