WIC - CPA Nutritionist

Job Description

Job Description

CCI Health Services is a group practice, empowering patients to partner with staff for an unparalleled healthcare experience. Through integrated teams in a learning environment, we deliver high quality, affordable, care to every patient during all stages of life.

POSITION SUMMARY :

The Competent Professional Authority (CPA) will take the lead role in clinic setting and serve as a back up to the clinic manager. Provides nutrition counseling and conducts nutrition classes. Prescribes standard and non-standard food packages and obtains anthropometric measurements. In addition, the CPA will assist with the delivery of WIC services at a CCI clinic site to assure the provision of high quality, cost–efficient, culturally sensitive services that comply with all Federal, State and Local agency policies and procedures.

KEY FUNCTIONS & RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Follows State guidelines for issuing infant formulas, exempt infant formulas, and other eligible nutritionals by obtaining the required documentation for issuing formulas other than the standard contract infant formulas.
• Follows State and agency guidelines for ordering infant formulas, exempt infant formulas, and other eligible nutritionals through the State office.
• Correctly follows state guidelines for identifying all applicable nutrition risk codes by correctly interpreting the growth chart and the hemoglobin value, reviewing the Health History form and the Nutrition History screen.
• Prescribes appropriate food packages following State guidelines and the applicant’s dietary / health requirements and personal preference.
• Consistently uses proper procedures to collect accurate information.
• Follows State guidelines when providing nutrition counseling by :
• Targeting the nutrition counseling toward the applicant’s nutritional risk(s) by identifying the most important nutrition risk or risks and focusing on them.
• Covering the participant category-specific topics.
• Providing exit counseling to all postpartum and breastfeeding women.
• Addressing applicant’s questions and / or concerns
• Providing appropriate nutrition education materials based upon the topics covered in nutrition counseling sessions
• Explaining the contents of the prescribed food package
• Incorporating WIC foods into the discussion, especially for food groups with low FFQ scores
• Working on-site is essential duty for the job
• Provides referrals by :

Following State and agency guidelines for providing referrals for high-risk counseling and breastfeeding counseling.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES :

ACCURATELY OBTAINS AND DOCUMENTS ANTHROPOMETRIC AND LAB DATA :

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY :

INFORMS PARTICIPANTS ABOUT THE WIC PROGRAM :

EFFICIENTLY PERFORMS NECESSARY CLINIC DUTIES AND CONDUCTS NUTRITION CLASSES :

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS :

OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES :

Why work at CCI?

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, it is possible that requirements may be modified to reasonably accommodate disabled individuals. However, no accommodations will be made which may pose serious health or safety risks to the employee or others or which impose undue hardships on the organization.