WIC Nutritionist

Overview

Incumbent serves as WIC Nutritionist for the Floyd County Health Department, responsible for developing and implementing individual care plans for low‑risk clients.

• Complete MIS application, certification procedure, and documentation, including height, weight, and hemoglobin.
• Evaluate client nutritional status through dietary assessment and counseling, making recommendations based on nutritional needs, family income, cultural food patterns, home facilities, and diet modifications.
• Follow guidelines using a Participant Centered approach and create a tailored food prescription appropriate to the client’s needs via the MIS application.
• Identify need for individual care, follow up with a qualified nutritionist, and make referrals as necessary.
• Document assessments, evaluations, counseling, and referrals on the MIS application.
• Provide educational programs for clients in the form of classes or demonstrations and maintain related files and records.
• Provide all pregnant and breastfeeding women with nutrition education opportunities that promote and support breastfeeding.
• Work cooperatively with other staff and community agencies.
• Attend in‑service education, conferences, and staff meetings as required.
• Visit clients in hospital or at home on a special case‑by‑case basis as needed.
• Perform related duties as assigned.

• Baccalaureate degree in food and nutrition or nursing and possession of current certification as a Registered Dietitian (RD) or nursing license.
• Working knowledge of state and federal WIC program requirements and standard nutritional guidelines, and ability to conduct nutritional assessments and provide appropriate education and counseling.
• Knowledge of health and social services available to county residents, and ability to make appropriate referrals.
• Knowledge of and ability to use universal health precautions to avoid infection, and proper operation of medical equipment such as recumbent infant scale, weight scale, and wall‑mounted height measurement device.
• Knowledge of standard office procedures, computer, printer, and calculator operation.
• Proficiency in standard English grammar, spelling, and punctuation, and ability to maintain complete and accurate files and prepare department forms, documents, and reports within established deadlines.
• Proficiency with word processing, spreadsheets, email, online document processing, and department‑specific software/systems.
• Effective oral and written communication with co‑workers, program participants, local health and social services, and the public, including sensitivity to professional ethics, gender, cultural diversities, and disabilities.
• Ability to provide public access to or maintain confidentiality of department information and records according to state and department requirements and policies.
• Ability to comply with all employer and department policies and work rules, including attendance, safety, drug‑free workplace, and personal conduct.
• Ability to competently serve the public with diplomacy and respect.
• Ability to understand, memorize, retain, and carry out oral and written instructions and present findings in oral or written form.
• Ability to compile, compare, analyze, investigate, diagnose, and evaluate data, and make determinations based on data analysis.
• Ability to count, compute, and make simple arithmetic calculations.
• Ability to file, post, and mail materials.
• Ability to work alone with minimum supervision and with others in a team environment, often under pressure of formal schedules and deadlines, and on several tasks at the same time.
• Ability to occasionally work evenings and travel out of town for meetings, sometimes overnight.