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WIC-Competent Professional Authority

Salary

$19.00 Hourly

Location

Silver-Bow County, MT

Job Type

Full-time Regular

Job Number

2024-055

Department

Health Department

Opening Date

06/25/2024

Closing Date

7/9/2024 11:59 PM Mountain

FLSA

Non-Exempt

Bargaining Unit

N/A

• Description

• Benefits

Description

General Statement of Duties

Provides nutritional certification, education and counseling for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC); does related work as required.

Distinguishing Features of the Class

This is skilled technical and administrative work involving counseling high risk clients in dietary and nutritional health. The work is performed under the general direction and supervision of the WIC Program Manager, but considerable leeway is granted for the exercise of independent judgement and initiative. The nature of the work performed requires that an employee in this class establish and maintain close cooperative working relationships with Health Department employees, supervisors, clients, family, and the general public.

Duties/Responsibilities

Examples of Essential Work (Illustrative Only)

• Evaluates the nutritional needs of high-risk clients including preparation of a care plan;

• Provides client education in food selection, dietary needs and nutrition;

• Develops educational materials relative to client nutritional health;

• Maintains required client documentation and program records;

• Documents client visits and completes all related medical records including assessment and care plans;

• Maintains current dietary and nutritional research findings, incorporating them into the WIC program services;

• Refers high risk clients to appropriate agencies or health care professionals;

• Promotes and supports breast feeding;

• Prescribe and issue food packages;

• Operates centrifuge, draws blood for iron levels and reads iron levels;

• Gathers anthropometric data;

• Collaborates with and provides consultative services to community organizations to promote community understand of nutritional health;

• Gives presentations to community groups as requested and assists with staff training;

• Attends meetings, conferences and workshops as requested and authorized;

• Performs related work as required.

• Perform all duties and work assignments in a safe, healthy, and environmentally sound manner. Specifically, complying with the Health & Safety Program; maintaining work areas in a safe and orderly manner; identifying and reporting unsafe conditions; reporting all accidents; wearing required personal protective equipment; and attending safety-related meetings, training sessions, fit testing, etc.

• Perform all duties and work assignments in compliance with project quality requirements.

• Act responsibly and ethically, and in conformance with generally accepted business, occupational, and professional standards.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Thorough knowledge of dietary health and nutritional education principles;

• Thorough knowledge of the functions and programs of community and other health and social service agencies and their available public health resources;

• Good knowledge of counseling and teaching techniques;

• Good knowledge of the needs and problems of low-income families;

• Skill in interpersonal communications and persuasion;

• Ability to establish effective working relationships with patients, health care professionals, health care agencies, departmental employees and the general public;

• Ability to maintain client confidentiality;

• Ability to communicate well with departmental employees, health care professionals, patients, health care agencies and the general public, both orally and in writing, using both technical and non-technical language;

• Ability to prepare accurate and reliable reports containing findings, conclusions and recommendations;

• Ability to operate a personal computer using standard word processing, spreadsheet and database applications appropriate to assigned duties;

• Ability to drive in all types of weather and road conditions;

• Ability to use logical thought processes to develop solutions according to written specifications and oral instructions;

• Ability to perform a wide variety of technical and administrative tasks with accuracy and speed under the pressure of time-sensitive deadlines and emergency situations;

• Ability to quickly learn and put to use new skills and knowledge brought about by rapidly changing information;

• Ingenuity and inventiveness in the performance of assigned tasks.

Acceptable Experience and Training

• Registered Dietitian (RD); or

• Nutritionist with a Bachelor’s or Masters degree from an accredited college/university; or

• Diet Technician, Registered (DTR); or

• Health Degreed professional (such as RN, LPN, Health Promotion, Health Education, Health and Human Development, Community Health, Early Childhood Development, Exercise Science, Family and Consumer Sciences, or Home Economics) with 6 or more semester credit hours in food and nutrition appropriate to the WIC population (including courses in Basic Nutrition, Nutrition in Life Cycle, Community Nutrition or Nutrition and Disease) and successful completion of an Anatomy/Physiology series of coursework.

• Other degreed professionals with 12 or more semester credit hours in food and nutrition appropriate to the WIC population and Anatomy/Physiology; or

• Current Montana WIC CPA; and

• Considerable experience in nutritional health or closely related field; or

• Any equivalent combination of education and experience which provides knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to do the work.

Required Special Qualifications

• Possession of a valid driver’s license issued by the State of Montana;

• Must be a resident of Butte-Silver Bow during employment according to Butte-Silver

Bow Ordinance. See below.

“2.08.010 Residence during employment.

From and after October 1, 1979, all employees of the local government of Butte-Silver Bow shall be bona fide residents within the boundaries of Butte-Silver Bow during the period of their employment by the government of Butte-Silver Bow.

(Ord. 85 § 1, 1979)”

Essential Physical Abilities

• Sufficient clarity of speech and hearing, with or without accommodation, which permits the employee to communicate well with clients, families, employees and health care professionals;

• Sufficient vision, with or without reasonable accommodation, which permits the employee to make comprehensive visual examinations of health conditions and to record and review a wide variety of written reports and visual materials and supplies;

• Sufficient manual dexterity, with or without reasonable accommodation, which permits the employee to operate a computer keyboard and handle small objects;

• Sufficient personal mobility, with or without reasonable accommodation, which permits the employee to visit a variety of work sites, drive a car and transport materials or supplies weighing up to 60 pounds.

The City-County is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, physical disability, or veteran status.

The job description is only a summary of the typical functions of the job, not an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all possible job responsibilities. Tasks and duties of the employee may differ from those outlined above.

The City-County of Butte-Silver Bow offers a comprehensive employee benefits package that includes:

• Low-cost health insurance plan with dental and vision coverage for employees and dependants

• No-cost life insurance,

• A confidential and free employee assistance program

• Retirement savings accounts

• Permanent employees accrue vacation leave, sick leave, and paid holidays

• Voluntary supplemental coverages

• Dependent care flexible spending accounts

• Medical flexible spending accounts

• Health savings accounts

  Benefit eligibility may be determined by length of service and/or employment status.

Agency

City and County of Butte-Silver Bow, MT

Address

155 W Granite Suite 209 Butte, Montana, 59701

Phone

406-497-6430

Website

https://www.co.silverbow.mt.us/

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