Nutrition Assistant Certifier

Position: Nutrition Assistant Certifier I
Sea Mar Community Health Centers, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) founded in 1978, is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to Latinos in Washington State. Sea Mar proudly serves all persons without regard to race, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, or sexual orientation, and regardless of ability to pay for services.

Sea Mar's network of services includes more than 90 medical, dental, and behavioral health clinics and a wide variety of nutritional, social, and educational services. We are recruiting for the following position:

Sea Mar is a mandatory COVID-19 and flu vaccine organization
** Position Summary
** The Nutrition Assistant Certifier I is responsible for WIC participant enrollment, termination, orientation, voucher delivery and maintaining client files.  He or she also performs preliminary participant risk assessment and some basic nutrition education, identifies and makes nutrition and other health or community service referrals.  She/he also assists with the Nutrition Program clerical support including, but not limited to; completing participant reports, maintaining records and monthly statistics.
** Duties and Responsibilities
** As a mission-driven organization, the core values of, and the services offered at Sea Mar are based on the belief that everyone deserves to be respectfully treated in a way that preserves dignity and enhances self-worth. Sea Mar is an advocate for its clients and aims to achieve industry-leading, client-centered, culturally-aware services.

Sea Mar employees serve as an extension of this mission and demonstrate their commitment to an excellent client experience by:
* Understanding and empathizing with client needs
* Surpassing client expectations
* Demonstrating a high level of integrity
* Exhibiting compassion and commitment
* Advocating for social justice
* Taking pride in individual work as well as that of the team
* Continually learning to stay current with industry standards, best practices and technology

As a Sea Mar employee, the individual in this position commits to adherence to these values to their utmost ability and endeavors to strengthen and embody this mission daily.
** ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
** include the following listed below.  The Nutrition Assistant Certifier I may be required to perform other duties as assigned.
** ADMINISTRATIVE
* ** Maintains complete up-to-date WIC charts (documenting counseling session as specified by program guidelines in legible form), and statistical program records including but not limited to; documentation flow sheet, WIC diet records, certification sheets, weight/height grids, child evaluation sheets, infant birth outcomes, and appointment scheduling.
* Establishes and maintains professional working relationships with WIC team members and other Sea Mar staff.  Serves as liaison between Nutrition/WIC and other clinic and community services and makes referrals as appropriate.
* Assists with the clerical and statistical program work as needed.
* Attends selected clinic, MSS, Preventative Health Services division and WIC meetings and participates in continuing education.
* Assists with breastfeeding promotion and community nutrition education, including travel as needed.
* Works efficiently with self-direction.
** CLINICAL
* ** Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served.
* Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span.
* Able to identify and categorize each patient’s age-specific grouping needs, such as those for infant, adolescent, or geriatric patients.
* Interviews clients from diverse populations, reviews and documents client history, anthropometric and laboratory data, and reviews current eating habits.
* Uses standard assessment tools and follows department policies and practices to perform screening procedures such as weighing and measuring, taking hematocrits hemoglobin, plotting growth grids, and reviewing dietary evaluations.
* Compares information…