Sea Mar Community Health Centers

Assistant

• Enroll, terminate, orient, and deliver benefits to WIC participants
• Maintain complete and up-to-date WIC charts, client files, records, and statistical program documentation
• Perform preliminary participant risk assessments and basic nutrition education
• Interview clients and review histories, anthropometric and laboratory data, and eating habits
• Conduct weighing, measuring, hematocrit and hemoglobin screening, growth-grid plotting, and dietary evaluations
• Determine WIC eligibility and nutrition risk factors
• Refer clients to health and community services and facilitate urgent Dietitian appointments
• Provide individual and group nutrition education
• Schedule client appointments and provide program orientation
• Determine food packages, explain WIC food nutrient content, identify vendors, and issue food benefits
• Maintain patient rights and confidentiality and document complaints and infractions
• Support clerical and statistical program work
• Establish professional relationships with WIC staff and Sea Mar personnel
• Participate in meetings, continuing education, breastfeeding promotion, and community nutrition education
• Travel as needed and perform other assigned duties

Nutrition Assistant – Certifier 1

General

• Provide Health Home services and supports to patients with complex medical, behavioral health, and social concerns
• Meet patients in homes, communities, inpatient settings, and clinics
• Conduct functional, self-management, fall-risk, depression, anxiety, substance-use, and other relevant screenings
• Review screenings and electronic records and consult other service providers
• Create Health Action Plans with long-term goals, short-term goals, and actionable steps
• Provide health promotion, patient/family support, care coordination, transitional care, referrals, and comprehensive care management
• Monitor patients in person or by phone for symptom, life-circumstance, and medication changes
• Use motivational interviewing to support achievement of Health Action Plan goals
• Review Health Action Plans and screenings with patients or families every four months
• Engage patients and supporters in chronic-condition self-management
• Maintain communication with the patient care team and support clients during provider visits
• Participate in case reviews and multidisciplinary meetings
• Collaborate with Care Management RNs, Master’s-level Integration Specialists, and Care Managers
• Consult behavioral health providers and coordinate with community providers and case managers
• Document calls, visits, contacts, encounters, and outcome measurements daily
• Maintain appointment reconciliation in the scheduling database
• Carry a caseload of up to 60 patients as assigned
• Provide up to two contacts per month for high-intensity patients
• Perform other duties as assigned

Nutrition Assistant – Certifier 1

Integration Specialist – BA