Registered Dietitian - PHN II (Public Health Nutritionist II) - Stanislaus County - California

Registered Dietitian - PHN II (Public Health Nutritionist II) - Stanislaus County - California -

This recruitment is being carried out to fill a emptiness for the Health Providers Company and set up an eligible listing to fill future full-time and half-time vacancies. Whereas this can be a steady recruitment, we encourage you to use instantly as this recruitment might shut at any time.

Bilingual candidates are inspired to use.

Stanislaus County Gives lateral Hiring incentives to certified candidates who’ve attained everlasting or probationary standing with one other public company. A number of the incentives embrace: trip accruals, sick depart accruals, and the potential of a lowered probationary interval.

Oral examinations will probably be held as certified purposes are acquired.

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ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

The Health Providers Company (HSA) consists of main care clinics together with a 7 day per week pressing care operation, specialty clinics, a rehabilitation clinic, managed care and indigent well being care and public well being providers offered for the residents of Stanislaus County. Public Health, a division of the Health Providers Company (HSA) operates the normal packages of: Communicable Illness Management, medical and case management providers for Sexually Transmitted Illness (STD)/Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/Tuberculosis (TB)/Immunizations, Public Health Laboratory, Public Health Nursing locally (Nurse Household Partnership), Childhood Lead Prevention Program, Teen Being pregnant Prevention Schooling, Cal-Study/Adolescent Household Life Program (AFLP) California Youngsters’s Providers and Medical Remedy Packages, Baby Health & Incapacity Prevention (CHDP) Administration, Emergency Preparedness, WIC Vitamin Providers, Tobacco Schooling and Health Promotion.

WIC NUTRITION SERVICES

The Particular Supplemental Vitamin Program for Ladies, Infants and Youngsters (WIC) is a federally funded program by USDA, by way of the California Division of Health Providers. It’s a vitamin schooling and supplemental meals program that helps pregnant and postpartum ladies, infants and youngsters underneath 5 to eat nicely and keep wholesome. Program employees offers particular person and group vitamin schooling and counseling; breastfeeding schooling and help, makes suggestions for supplemental meals, and referrals to well being care and different supporting businesses.

The HSA holds strongly to its imaginative and prescient of “wholesome individuals in a wholesome Stanislaus” by creating its providers with the group in ways in which help group want.

ABOUT THE POSITION

The Public Health Nutritionist II is the journey degree place inside this classification and performs with independence of motion inside established tips. This particular person plans, develops, implements, offers and evaluates vitamin actions for most of the people, and particularly for low-revenue, pregnant and breast-feeding ladies, infants and youngsters underneath the age of 5 who’re categorised as a dietary or medical danger. This place is predicted to oversee and mentor the Public Health Nutritionist I’s and different help personnel, akin to Group Health Staff, Administrative Clerks, Volunteers and College students. This place is topic to additional time, standby, and callback assignments. Performs associated duties assigned.

CONVICTION/CRIMINAL HISTORY INFORMATION QUESTIONNAIRE

As soon as it’s decided that you simply meet the minimal qualifications for this place, you’ll obtain an e-mail informing you to finish a conviction questionnaire (you could be requested to finish this course of for every software submitted). You’ll have 5 (5) working days from the date on the e-mail to comply with the detailed directions and full the questionnaire. A accomplished conviction questionnaire is required to proceed within the recruitment course of.

Typical Duties

• Selects and develops vitamin and shopper schooling supplies applicable to the Ladies, Infants and Youngsters’s Program (WIC);




• Prepares month-to-month schedules for the WIC Program;




• Assists in employees orientation, coaching and analysis of subordinate employees’s job efficiency;




• Plans and offers in-service schooling in vitamin to WIC, medical and nursing employees and group businesses at the side of the Program Coordinator;




• Conducts dietary schooling courses for WIC individuals and the group;




• Plans and participates in WIC outreach actions in recruitment of individuals and program publicity;




• Prepares dietary assessments and excessive danger care plans on referred shoppers;




• Counsels in response to plans and offers for applicable comply with-up;




• Completes certifications and re-certifications for WIC individuals as wanted; and works at WIC websites as assigned;




• Screens, performs analysis as wanted and implements State insurance policies and mandates;




• Acts as a supervisor at assigned clinic websites, making certain efficient clinic operations, together with stream, appointment schedule, assigning and rotating employees; and




• Conducts research and surveys referring to vitamin schooling program and may modify curriculum as wanted.

Minimal Qualifications (Expertise, Capability, Information, Schooling/Expertise) SKILLS/ABILITIES

• Perceive technical medical and occupational terminology;




• Plan and supervise the preparation of particular diets and menus to satisfy the suitable mineral, vitamin and caloric necessities;




• Modify common diets to satisfy the actual wants of the affected person’s situation;




• Talk ideas orally enough to counsel and instruct shoppers and most of the people;




• Present persevering with schooling to medical, nursing and help employees;




• Keep data of meals served and diets ready; and




• Put together coaching and educational supplies for shoppers and the medical and nursing employees.

KNOWLEDGE

• Trendy rules and practices of dietetics with particular emphasis on food plan remedy;




• Health precautions essential in giant scale meals preparation and providers;




• Meals preparation and meals service management strategies and methods Chemistry, caloric values and bodily properties of foodstuffs, in addition to understanding the medical foundation for dietetic restrictions;




• Regular, toddler, prenatal and therapeutic vitamin;




• Conduct modification methods; and




• Roles and duties; of group well being care businesses and associated well being professionals.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE

PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITIONIST II

• PATTERN I –Skilled registration with the Academy of Vitamin and Dietetics; OR




• PATTERN II –Eligible for registration with the Academy of Vitamin; and Dietetics.

NOTE: Registration consists of finishing an authorised internship or Grasp’s program and passing an examination.(All accepted by the American Dietetic Affiliation).

Proof of schooling is required for verification functions earlier than the Oral Examination Date. Candidates who’re unable to submit proof should name 209-558-7106 to make different preparations. Failure to submit proof or make different preparations earlier than the Oral Examination will end in disqualification.

LICENSE

• Applicant should possess and keep a legitimate California Driver’s License and stay free from repeated preventable accidents.

Along with the minimal qualifications, applicant screening will concentrate on the next fascinating qualifications. Please listing any of those qualifications you’ll have inside the “duties” of part of the web software.

DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS

• 5 (5) years of expertise in a WIC Program.

Software and Choice Procedures CLASSIFICATION INFORMATION

Until in any other case offered, this place is a part of the Categorised Service of the County and is assigned to the Group & Health Providers bargaining unit for labor relations functions.

People who’re in a full-time classification place are required to serve a twelve-month probationary interval, which can be prolonged an addition six months for a complete of eighteen months. The probationary interval doesn’t apply to unclassified positions.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

The County of Stanislaus is an Equal Alternative Employer. All certified candidates are inspired to submit on-line software(s) for open place(s).

Stanislaus County is dedicated to establishing and sustaining efficient working relationships with most of the people, co-staff, supervisors, and members of numerous cultural and linguistic backgrounds no matter race, spiritual creed, shade, nationwide origin, ancestry, bodily or psychological incapacity, medical situation, genetic info, being pregnant associated situation, marital standing, gender/intercourse, sexual orientation, gender id, gender expression, age (over 40), political affiliation or perception, or army or veteran standing.

APPLICATION PROCEDURES/FINAL FILING DATE

Purposes can’t be submitted later than 5:00 p.m. on the ultimate submitting date. Make your on-line software as full as potential so a full and practical appraisal could also be manufactured from your qualifications.

Resumes won’t be accepted in lieu of a accomplished software type.

Attaching your resume and canopy letter are an optionally available function for many who want to take action along with finishing the required software type. Info in your resume and canopy letter won’t substitute for the schooling, work expertise and required fields on the County software. The web County software is the first software used to guage your job qualifications.

TESTING ACCOMMODATIONS

Preparations could also be made to accommodate disabilities or spiritual convictions. Describe the particular check preparations you require within the “Further Info” part of the appliance type.

GENERAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Move County-paid pre-employment drug screening and job-associated background investigation.




• Carry out job duties in a fashion assuring a protected working setting for oneself and others.




• Keep confidential info in response to the authorized requirements and/or County laws as required.

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