What are the responsibilities and job description for the Nutrition Manager position at Poverello Center Inc?
Our Nutrition Program Manager is a self-motivated, highly energetic, organizational leader and credentialled Nutritionist/Dietitian
Florida provider who understands the nutritional needs for a wide range of people, from clients who have chronic illness including HIV, to those who are working on weight management and general healthful eating. This position establishes replicable individual level dietary and program level standards for our clients and provides one-on-one and group consultations, case conferencing, social media content creation, and nutrition/cooking class facilitation.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Core duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
• Provides medical nutrition therapy and develops diets for clients who request services with chronic conditions including HIV, Diabetes,
Chronic Kidney Disease, Heart Disease, etc.
· Performs individualized nutrition assessments on all clients and provides nutrition education in both one-on-one settings and in group settings
· Approves annual food pantry inventory standards and implements changes to medically tailored meal plans as appropriate.
· Works with Food Pantry manager and purchasing to bring food items of high nutritional value and variety to the pantry.
· Facilitates cooking classes, ingredient tastings, groups on healthy lifestyle, nutrition, or wellness topics.
· Manages the nutrition consultation calendar and appointments.
· Assist with the agency newsletter for nutrition-related content.
· Publish blog post monthly on nutrition habits and best practices on social media: our website, eat right, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other platforms.
· Participates in Food is Medicine and Quality Management Committees.
· Ensures all provided services are documented in Athena Health EMR and Provide Enterprise.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: This job is responsible for the supervisory role when utilizing volunteers for the purposes of the Dietitian/Nutritionist, cooking class and any assigned students.
