Job Description
Job Title: Nutritionist (Bilingual Spanish)
Salary: $28-$32 per hour
Location: Garden Grove
Openings: 1
Position Purpose: The position's focus is on creating and supporting an environment that fosters optimal patient, family, and overall community health achieved through nutrition counseling. Under the leadership of the Patient Support Services Director, along with a dynamic team and organizational structure comprised of various other support service areas, such as wellness kitchen, food pantry, acupuncture, kinesiology & strength training, and mental health to name a few, the position requires a passion and commitment to meeting the health needs of the diverse clients of Families Together of Orange County.
Core Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Evaluating a client’s nutritional needs via an intake interview
- Providing nutritional counseling and advice based on clients’ needs
- Creating a nutrition treatment plan for a client
- Educating the client on possible nutrition issues
- Researching the effects of nutrition on health and fitness
- Consulting with a team of healthcare practitioners on nutritional management for a client
- Creating a nutrition lesson plan for group medical visits
- Leading group nutrition classes
- Creating cooking class lesson plans for group medical visits
- Shopping and preparing for group cooking classes
- Leading group cooking classes
- Secures patient information and maintains patient confidentiality by completing and safeguarding medical records and other patient information.
- Accurately records patient information, measurement data, procedure documentation, and test results in the electronic medical record, securing the workstation when finished.
- Maintains a safe, secure, and healthy work environment by establishing and following standards and procedures; complying with legal regulations.
- Keeps supplies ready by inventorying stock, placing orders; and verifying receipt.
- Participates in quality management program.
- Performs office procedures to schedule, check in, and process patients during a nutritional visit
- Performs Start of Day and End of Day procedures, as assigned.
- Performs other tasks for which training has been provided, as assigned.
- Other duties as assigned
Education And Training - Completion of a certified Nutritionist training program.
- Bilingual: Spanish (Required)
Qualifications, Skills, And Experience - Possess exceptional communication skills.
- Bilingual in Spanish (Required)
- Active listener
- Effective writer
- Professionalism
- Good listening skills
- Logic
- Critical thinking skills
- Coordination skills
- Reading comprehension skills
- Being perceptive and understanding others’ reactions
- Able to solve complex problems
- Able to teach others
- Able to use good judgment and make good decisions
- Customer focus, confidentiality
- Good bedside manner
- Exemplify medical teamwork
- This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee. He or she will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform other duties, within scope, as assigned by his or her supervisor.
Families Together of Orange County (FTOC) is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. FTOC does not discriminate based on race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, or any protected category prohibited by local, state or federal laws.
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