Nutritionist WIC
Nutritionist WIC
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Job Description
Looking for a rewarding career that makes a difference in childrens lives Look no further and join the team at Meeting Street! Meeting Street is a special place of learning where children of all abilities have the opportunities to reach their fullest potential.
Fulltime employees receive:
- Competitive Pay
- Generous PTO
- 13 paid holidays
- Medical dental vision and MORE
Meeting Street is currently looking for a WIC Nutritionist working 40 hours weekly.
Duties:
- Provide basic nutritional education and consultation services to pregnant mothers mothers postpartum women and their children under age 5 with the goal of promoting healthy development and wellbeing.
- Build trusting relationships to partner effectively with parents children and extended families.
- Provide nutrition education for families based on their individual needs.
- Anthropometric assessment of clients via height weight and hemoglobin and lead to determine risk eligibility per program guidelines.
- Issuing benefits to eWIC cards and data entry within the Crossroads electronic medical record.
- Identify family needs beyond the scope of the WIC program and make referrals to other Rhode Islandbased community and family resources. You will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team in providing clinical care and assessment of clients.
Requirements:
- Bachelors degree in Dietetics Nutrition or related area and DPD accredited nutrition program.
- Experience providing support to high need populations.
Meeting Street believes the dignity of each person is paramount. We recognize that our communitys future strength rests firmly on our commitment to our values of respect compassion integrity inclusivity and excellence. To uphold these commitments we expect all employees to recognize and properly respond to racism and other forms of injustice.
It is our policy to recruit hire train transfer and promote employees and to ensure that all other employment practices (i.e. salary and benefits administration education and training programs and social and recreational programs) are administered without regard to race color religion marital status gender sexual preference or orientation gender expression or identity age national origin or ancestry legally recognized disability citizenship status genetic information veteran status military status socioeconomic background homelessness or any other characteristic or category protected by law. It is also our policy to protect employees and applicants from any coercion retaliation or discrimination for filing a complaint or assisting in any investigation pursuant to the equal opportunity laws.
Employment Type
Full Time
