UMass Memorial Health·Milford, Massachusetts
Provide nutrition services to low-risk child applicants and participants within the WIC program. Responsibilities include data collection, nutritional risk assessment, food package assignment, and providing counseling and education.
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$19.15 - $34.47
Please note that the final offer may vary within this range based on a candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.
Schedule Details: Monday through Friday
Scheduled Hours: 830-430
1 - Day Shift, 4 Hours (United States of America)
Hours: 20
25080 - 5845 WIC
This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.
At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver – regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.
Provides nutrition services to low-risk child applicants and participants. Responsibilities include:
Completes and receives acceptable status on all components, activities and posttests of the CPA I Training Program to obtain CPA I status. After Obtaining CPA I Status:
Provides nutrition care for low-risk children at certification and follow-up, including all aspects of:
Anthropometric and hematological data collection.
Dietary and nutritional risk assessment.
Food package assignment.
Counseling and education.
Documentation and nutrition data entry.
Health and social service referrals.
Follow-up nutrition education.
Performs other duties as needing including participating in quality assurance activities
Bi-lingual proficiency in Spanish and/or Portuguese required.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
We’re striving to make respect a part of everything we do at UMass Memorial Health – for our patients, our community and each other. Our six Standards of Respect are: Acknowledge, Listen, Communicate, Be Responsive, Be a Team Player and Be Kind. If you share these Standards of Respect, we hope you will join our team and help us make respect our standard for everyone, every day.
As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, UMass Memorial Health recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences, perspectives and backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, protected veteran status or other status protected by law.
If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at talentacquisition@umassmemorial.org. We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.
Candidates must complete and receive acceptable status on all components of the CPA I Training Program. The role requires the ability to perform anthropometric and hematological data collection and manage nutrition data entry.
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