2025-071 Diabetes Education Dietitian
2025-071 Diabetes Education Dietitian
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28-06-2025
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Monthly Salary
$ 41 - 49
Vacancy
1 Vacancy
Posted on :
28-06-2025
Job Description
Title:Diabetes Education Dietitian
Division:Integrated Indigenous Health and Specialized Community Services
Affiliation:Public Service Alliance of Canada
Site:Moose Factory ON & Moosonee ON with Coastal Visits
Reports to:Manager of Diabetes & Clinical Nutrition
Status: Permanent Full-time
The Weeneebayko Area Health Authority (WAHA) is seeking an experience candidate to fill the key role of Diabetes Education Dietitian.
Life at WAHA
A beacon of healing wellness and innovation WAHA connects remote communities with the care they deserve. With spellbinding views surrounding each site team members bask in the tranquility of the land juxtaposed against a bustling workplace busy addressing the complex needs of the region. Here we work with purpose knowing each action matters. Patients are neighbours family and colleagues. Each day brings a challenge- the good kind that stretches you helps you grow and makes you feel vital. These hurdles birth opportunities to problem solve develop new skills and explore new roles. Here we step into a version of ourselves once forgotten overshadowed by the daily grind and rediscover a deep connection with ourselves the land and each other. Here we experience work with wonder. #WeAreWAHA
What We Do
There has never been a more exciting time to be at WAHA. We are an integrated health system providing the full continuum of care to the six communities of the western James Bay coast with over 500 employees physicians and partners in care. As a health authority you will work in a unique setting where you have the opportunity to care for patients in all phases of their life journey in all areas of their health experience. From Primary Acute and Mental Health Dental Specialty Clinics Population Health and the WAHA Paramedic Service the opportunities for growth are boundless. We provide community-based programming in all six of our communities have six paramedic bases three hospitals four emergency departments one community health centre and a total of 72 beds. Our guiding goal is to be a centre of excellence in Indigenous and remote healthcare. To make this goal a reality we have formed partnerships with other centres of excellence to remove barriers and eliminate the inequity of health services access that have long impacted the patients that we serve.
At WAHA we are leading the way in health transformation. Come and immerse yourself in the local Cree culture work with dedicated and passionate colleagues and live in beautiful northern communities with amazing community members. Our mission is to provide optimum healthcare as close to home as possible. You can be part of this rewarding experience. Come and find your adventure in the north.
Who You Are
- Skill in the application of the professional sciences of food nutrition and management
- Have knowledge regarding the Canadian Diabetes Association Guidelines for the Nutritional Management of Diabetes and Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Ability to develop normal and therapeutic diets
- Ability to adapt normal and therapeutic diets to the groups and to the individuals cultural religious economic needs and preferences.
- Ability to integrate nutrition services into the health delivery system including the preventive program
What Youll Do
- Conduct professional nutritional assessments evaluations counselling as it pertains to diabetes management
- Conduct clinics and provides education in a variety of formats: one -on-one consultations group sessions and community based educational presentations via in-person either in clinic in community or home visits or by way of virtual settings (telephone OTN video conferencing)
- Diabetes education (at-risk pre-diabetes diabetes pediatric diabetes gestational diabetes)
- Attends multidisciplinary meetings as an Allied Health member
- Leads presentations and workshops centered around nutrition (prevention cooking demonstrations etc)
What You Bring
- An accredited 4-year or equivalent degree with appropriate courses in sciences and human nutrition administration and humanities
- Completion of Dietetic Internship or equivalent supervised practical training
- Successful completion of the Canadian Dietetic Registration Examination
- Member of College of Dietitians of Ontario (or eligible for membership)
- Certified Diabetes Educator (willingness to obtain certification within a prescribed time frame)
- Membership in the Diabetes Educator Section of the Canadian Diabetes Association
- Ability to communicate in local native Cree language is an asset
Why Choose Us
- Hospitals of Ontario Pension Plan
- Group health welfare and Employee and Family Assistance Program Benefits
- Relocation paid by the organization
- Housing provided by the organization
- Annual retention bonus a northern living allowance and vacation travel bonus (all pensionable earnings)
- Be part of an organization leading health transformation in the remote north
- Ability to work with a purpose connected to an amazing community and culture with opportunities to learn and grow
Salary: $81783.00 - $97441.50
How to Apply
The successful candidate must provide a valid Criminal Record Check within a specified time frame.
Please apply in writing providing three recent work references quoting Competition #2025-071:
- For more information contact the HR team by email:
- Only those selected for an interview will be contacted
- This position will remain open till filled
- Please be advised that in order to be eligible for employment at Weeneebayko Area Health Authority all new hires must have received the full series of a COVID-19 vaccine or combination of COVID-19 vaccines approved by Health Canada
Weeneebayko Area Health Authority is an inclusive are available in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights code and Accessibility of Ontarians with Disabilities Act 2005.
Employment Type
Full-Time
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