Dietitian
Sandy Hill Community Health Centre, Canada
Job Description
Internal/External Employment Opportunity
Position Title: Dietitian
Component/Team: Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Management
Status: One Year Maternity Leave Replacement Contract, 1.0 FTE Full-time (35 hours per week)
Salary Scale: $66,448 - $80,044 annualized salary plus benefits
Start Date: March 4, 2024
APPLICATION DEADLINE: December 22, 2023 at 4:00 p.m.
Position Description:
The Registered Dietitian is a clinical nutritional counselor for individual clients, groups and community members. The Dietitian is also a health promoter and a consultant to staff requiring specific nutritional resources and technical expertise. The Dietitian works in partnership with staff, clients and groups to strengthen the capacity of the community to access nutritious, safe and culturally appropriate food. The Dietitian works collaboratively with all Sandy Hill Community Health Centre programs.
Reporting Relationship:
The Dietitian is directly accountable to the Director of Health Services for the carrying out of his/her duties through the Director Health Services to the Executive Director. The Dietitian is responsible for maintaining the licensing and regulatory requirements of the College of Dietitians of Ontario.
Requirements
Skills, Education and Experience:
Requirements for this position include:
Education and Language
- A Baccalaureate degree in human nutrition
- Dietitian of Canada accredited Dietetic Internship
- Registration in the College of Dietitians of Ontario
- Under the Centre’s designation to provide French Language Services:
- French (oral expression): Advanced
- French (oral comprehension): Advanced
- French (reading comprehension): Advanced
- Fluency in English, both oral and written
- Ability to communicate in a third language an asset (Priority third language: Arabic)
Professional Experience
- Three years’ experience in nutritional counselling, group facilitation and adult education in a community-based environment
- Demonstrated experience applying health promotion and community development strategies
- Sensitivity and experience working with socioeconomic and cross-cultural issues in diet, nutrition and food access
- Experience with motivational interviewing principles and techniques
- Experience as a preceptor for dietitian students and interns
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Ability to work well in a multi-disciplinary setting
- Ability to conduct individual and community nutritional needs assessment
- Flexible and creative
- Proficiency in the use of computers and various software applications
- Familiarity with harm reduction model
- Sensitivity to nutrition-related needs of low-income families, newcomers, young parents, people with concurrent disorders and mental illness and people living with HIV or HEP C
- Awareness of food security issues
- Demonstrated success in fostering community partnerships and leveraging community resources
Benefits
Sandy Hill Community Health Centre offers employees an excellent benefits package which includes 4 weeks holidays (pro-rated to status) in addition to a Pension Plan (Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan - HOOPP) and excellent Group Insurance Plan.
Conditions of Employment:
Hours of work will be developed in collaboration with the successful candidate to ensure a healthy work-life balance. A schedule of work will be based on the Centre’s hours of operation and program requirements.
An offer of employment will be conditional upon the candidate completing a criminal reference check, verification of educational requirement for this position and linguistic profile to the satisfaction of the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre.
Accommodation:
SHCHC will provide accommodation for applicants with disabilities in its recruitment process.
If at any stage in the selection process you require accommodation due to disability, please let us know the nature of the required accommodation.
Clients of the Centre are welcome to apply. Should a client become the successful candidate, they will no longer be able to continue receiving services at Sandy Hill Community Health Centre. Assistance will be made available to find an alternative provider.
Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls please.
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