Clinical Dietitian

Title: Clinical Dietitian
Division: Integrated Indigenous Health and Specialized Community Services
Affiliation: Public Service Alliance of Canada
Site: Hybrid
Reports to: Manager of Diabetes & Clinical Nutrition
Status: Permanent Full-time
Eligible for WAHA Sign-on Bonus (up to $15,000)

Weeneebayko Area Health Authority (WAHA) is seeking an experienced candidate to fill the key role of Clinical Dietitian.

A beacon of healing, wellness, and innovation, WAHA connects remote communities with the care they deserve. With spellbinding views surrounding each site, team members bask in the tranquility of the land, juxtaposed against a bustling workplace busy addressing the complex needs of the region. Here, we work with purpose, knowing each action matters. Patients are neighbours, family, and colleagues. Each day brings a challenge- the good kind that stretches you, helps you grow, and makes you feel vital.

These hurdles birth opportunities to problem solve, develop new skills, and explore new roles. Here, we step into a version of ourselves once forgotten, over shaded by the daily grind, and rediscover a deep connection with ourselves, the land, and each other. Here, we experience work with wonder.

We are an integrated health system providing the full continuum of care to six communities of the western James Bay coast with over 500 employees, physicians, and partners in care. As a health authority, you will work in a unique setting where you have the opportunity to care for patients in all phases of their life journey, in all areas of their health experience.

From Primary, Acute, and Mental Health, Dental, Specialty Clinics, Population Health and the WAHA Paramedic Service, the opportunities for growth are boundless. We provide community‑based programming in all six of our communities, have six paramedic bases, three hospitals, four emergency departments, one community health centre and a total of 72 beds. Our guiding goal is to be a centre of excellence in Indigenous and remote healthcare.

To make this goal a reality, we have formed partnerships with other centres of excellence to remove barriers and eliminate the inequity of health services access that have long impacted the patients that we serve. At WAHA, we are leading the way in health transformation. Come and immerse yourself in the local Cree culture, work with dedicated and passionate colleagues, and live in beautiful northern communities with amazing community members.

Our mission is to provide optimum healthcare as close to home as possible.

• Skill in the application of the professional sciences of food, nutrition and management
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate nutrition care plans
• Ability to develop normal and therapeutic diets
• Ability to adapt normal and therapeutic diets to group and individual’s cultural, religious, economic needs and preferences
• Ability to integrate nutrition services into the health delivery system including the preventive program

• Provide professional nutritional therapy, education and prevention to clients in outpatient/inpatient settings, in one‑on‑one consultations, group sessions and community‑based educational presentations via in‑person either in clinic, in community or home visits, or by way of virtual settings (telephone, OTN, video conferencing)
• Nutritional assessments, evaluations, counselling
• Attends multidisciplinary meetings as an Allied Health member
• Leads presentations and workshops centered around nutrition (prevention, cooking demonstrations, etc)
• Fosters and facilitates interdisciplinary collaborative relationships within the organization and with community partners, to ensure high standard of practice and deliver of quality nutritional education