Registered Dietitian (Nutritionist) - RUHS Public Health

ABOUT THE POSITION
The County of Riverside - Riverside University Health System (RUHS) - Public Health Department seeks Registered Dietitians - Nutritionists and Per Diem Nutritionists to join the team.

Seeking self-motivated and adaptable individuals with outstanding customer service skills to provide services for the Nutrition and Health promotion branch, which may entail working in the following programs: Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Supplemental Nutrition Program, CalFresh for Healthy Living, plus our Integrative Nutrition program working with Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) or other nutrition programs.

These federal assistance programs provide supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition information for low income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and infants and children up to age five who found to be at nutritional risk.

CalFresh for Healthy Living focuses on Policy, Systems and Environmental Change work.

Our FQHC dietitians are credentialed and work as FQHC providers.

Duties include (but not limited to):


* Assist the Supervising Nutritionist


* Individual nutrition counseling (in person or via phone)


* Group education/classes (in person or virtually)


* Computer use: client data entry; determining client eligibility for WIC; create presentations, etc.


* Assist the site supervisor in administrative duties


* In the absence of the site supervisor, assume the lead role at the site


* Collaborate and partner with staff, organizations, etc.

Possession of a valid Certificate of Registration as a dietitian as issued by the Commission on Dietetic Registration is required.

EXAMPLES OF ESSENTIAL DUTIES
• Implements, coordinates, promotes, and evaluates the nutrition component of specialized community and public health programs and projects.

• Develops and implements basic programs of instruction in diet therapy, nutrition, and diet counseling techniques for program and project staff; develops needed nutrition education materials.

• Teaches and counsels people of various age groups to select and/or prepare and use the foods that will best nourish their bodies, taking into consideration physical, financial, social, and emotional needs, as well as personal preferences and cultural patterns.

• Performs nutritional assessments on individuals prior to enrollment in programs; determines, through application of various published standards, whether individuals are at nutritional risk.

• Gives direct nutritional and dietetic consultation to individuals with special nutritional needs; plans and reviews menus for nutrition sites where meals are prepared and served for program participants.

• Conducts studies to determine the nature and extent of nutrition needs and problems of the population served and to evaluate the effects of nutritional and dietetic services being offered to participants.

• Contacts health professionals and makes presentat...