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    TITLE: Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Community Supports

    DEPARTMENT: Nutrition Services

    REPORTS TO: Senior Manager, Nutrition Services

    LOCATION: 1921 San Pablo Ave, hybrid

    BENEFITS: Yes STATUS: Part-time, Exempt SUPERVISES: Interns CLASSIFICATION: Professionals

    POSITION SUMMARY:

    As a part of the Food is Medicine Coalition, Project Open Hand is a leader in delivering nutrition interventions to help individuals manage chronic diseases that are nutrition sensitive. Recently, POH has been partnering with managed care plans to delivery medically tailored nutrition interventions through newly expanded MediCal benefits CalAIM Community Supports. This Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) position works in the Nutrition Services Department to provide nutrition assessments, counseling, and education to Project Open Hand clients living with critical and chronic illnesses, with a focus on Community Supports contracts. The Nutrition Services Department is an integral part of the Community Supports contract that includes the application of Medical Nutrition Therapy via in person and telephonic visits to some of the most vulnerable in our communities. The RDN develops nutrition education materials and curricula, assesses the needs of the client community, and adapts programming and medically tailored meals as needed to meet the unique challenges faced by Project Open Hand clients.

    This position is ideal for a compassionate, professional dietitian who would like to help continually improve programs that sustain our clients as they battle serious illnesses, food insecurity, isolation, or the health challenges of aging. This position requires a level of comfort in the community nutrition environment with an emphasis on education provided with a trauma informed approach to nutrition care.

    This position is intended to be a hybrid position working out of our Oakland office, and remotely. Fully remote may be a possibility for some candidates.

    QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:


    • Registered Dietitian, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist


    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills


    • 1+ year experience working with people with chronic health conditions

    QUALIFICATIONS DESIRED:


    • 1+ year of community nutrition-based work experience


    • Experience working with people living with HIV/AIDS and other critical and chronic diseases


    • Experience developing and executing community based nutrition education classes


    • Experience working with vulnerable populations


    • Bilingual in Spanish


    • Ability to apply strong clinical skills in a community-based setting

    ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

    · Participates in intake of new clients, conducting nutrition assessment and follow up sessions for clients by phone or telehealth platforms for clients enrolled in Community Supports contracts.

    · Document nutrition assessment and counseling sessions for each client utilizing the Nutrition Care Process

    Provide nutrition education and/or cooking classes for clients focused on topics including diabetes, heart disease, and other topics as determined relevant.


    • Regular participation in team meetings.


    • Supervises dietetic interns as assigned.


    • Other duties as assigned.

    JOB COMPETENCIES:


    • Team player: Demonstrates cooperative spirit, respects professional boundaries and is successful at sharing responsibilities with others


    • Self-led: Knows and completes responsibilities in assigned timelines, asks for clarifications when needed


    • Sensitive to the circumstances and needs of the critically ill and seniors, as well as people with mental health and substance abuse issues


    • Customer oriented: Works well with all customers (internal staff and external contacts), promotes a positive image of the agency and works diligently to resolve customer issues


    • Poised: able to maintain a calm, positive and constructive attitude during interactions with diverse populations, sometimes in challenging situations


    • Ethical: Honest, accountable, maintains confidentiality


    • Knowledgeable: Understands facets of job, keeps job knowledge current


    • Well organized: Information organized and accessible, maintains efficient work space, manages time well


    • Strong Communicator: Excellent verbal and written communication skills


    • Technical savvy: Skilled with computers, proficient with function appropriate technology, learns quickly, uses technology to enhance job performance with the interest and ability to learn new technology


    • Creative: Ability to conceptualize fresh, compelling ideas for the department and agency


    • Innovative: Offers new ideas, risk taker, amenable to change


    • Audience Engagement: Ability to effectively engage with target audiences

    PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT: The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

    Physical demands: While performing duties of job, incumbent is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. Employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds unassisted. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus

    Work environment: The noise level in the work environment varies from moderate to loud. The work environment will be ever changing with new clients, volunteers and staff members all sharing space and working together in the Grocery Center

    Approval/revision date: 03/01/2024

    I have read and understand the contents of this job description

    Signature: _________________________________________________Date:______________



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