Public Health Nutrition

• Conducting community or population-based assessments
• Developing operational plans for nutrition service delivery using professional and community input
• Conducting surveillance and monitoring of nutrition-related status and risk factors to determine population based nutrition status
• Provides leadership and expertise in improving the capacity of the community to build a public health infrastructure to better ensure population based behavior change through community centered and community led policy and environmental changes.
• Provides leadership in community and/or population based interventions that collaborate across disciplines, programs and agencies; and leadership in addressing the access and quality issues around direct nutrition services for populations.
• Initiating, facilitating and implementing collaborations between local, state and national programs
• Planning, coordinating, directing, arranging, conducting and evaluating programs/interventions and nutrition components of health promotion and disease prevention educational activities.

Training and Resource Development

• Developing a variety of curricula and training materials that can be used by clinical and community health professionals, community health workers and tribal food program staff
• Translating research and new data into health messages
• Teaching nutrition and health promotion related classes in a variety of settings to professional staff, nutrition program staff and community members. Other services provided include: wellness centers, school nutrition programs such as
• Head Start and WIC; tribal schools; elderly and residential treatment programs and breastfeeding promotion activities.

Direct Services

• Functions as a case manager/care coordinator in home health and clinical programs outside the hospital or ambulatory setting, serving medically high-risk clients, implementing standards of care
• Providing consultation and technical assistant to food assistance programs and other tribal programs and health and social agency staff
• Providing expert technical assistance and consultation in case management and medical nutrition therapy in a home or community setting.
  • Completing nutrition assessments of individuals
  • Developing realistic nutrition care plans
  • Counseling individuals and families on nutrition needs and diet modifications
  • Referring clients to appropriate community resources, and evaluating clinical care outcomes.

Staff Supervision

• Supervises public health nutrition program
• Prepares works assignments
• Sets performance standards and conducts performance evaluations
• Schedules nutrition program staff

Other Administrative Duties

• Participates in multidisciplinary committees, staff meetings and conferences
• Collaborates with professional and non-professional staff of a variety of disciplines
• Chairs and/or conducts meetings.