Registered Dietetic Technician

Location

Akron, OH | United States

Job description

Seeking a career in Public Health? Summit County Public Health is seeking a Registered Dietetic Technician in WIC. The Dietetic Technician provides nutritional assessment and counseling/education services to improve the health of individuals and communities within Summit County.

Job Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Performs intake, answers phones, makes appointments, greets clients, and prepares paperwork as needed.
• Determines eligibility of clients through health and nutrition screening.
• Explains WIC Program, How to use WIC Nutrition Card, and WIC rights and responsibilities for WIC at certification and recertification appointment.
• Provides breastfeeding assessment, education and ongoing client support; promotes breastfeeding as the norm for infant feeding.
• Performs height, weight and hemoglobin measurements in accordance with WIC policy and procedures.
• Receives and maintains current nutrition information and education from the WIC administrators or through the WIC computer program for education of clients.
• Reviews/approves formula prescriptions.
• Utilizes tele interpreter services when working with non-English speaking participants
• Refers clients to a variety of health care, community service, and human service agencies.

Required qualifications:

• Associate's degree in nutrition, dietetics, or related area, granted by an accredited college or university. Completion of a dietetic technician program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND) of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics to qualify for credentialing.
• Must be registered as a Dietetic Technician, Registered (DTR) by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR).
• A minimum of two years previous related work experience in the delivery of nutrition services.
• Current valid Ohio driver's license, automobile availability and insurance coverage.

Summit County Public Health (SCPH) is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our human capital is the most valuable asset we have. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities and talent that our employees invest in their work represents a significant part of not only our culture, but our reputation and organization's achievement as well. We embrace and encourage our employees' differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique.

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Salary

$19.28 per hour