Registered Dietitian

Community Health caring KW provides a broad range of services aimed at improving the health of individuals and the wider community. Our services include medical and dental care, health promotion, illness prevention and outreach programming. Our expertise and resources are focused on working with those who experience health inequities and barriers to accessing health services. Collaborating as an interdisciplinary team, we provide services and supports that address the social determinants of health including factors and barriers such as poverty, inadequate housing, food insecurity, substance use, language and culture, as well as stigma and social exclusion.

Community Health caring KW works with the most complex client population served by primary health care professionals within Waterloo Region. Our highly skilled and diverse team works from a strength-based approach with individual clients as well as the broader community. We collaborate with many partner agencies and organizations within Waterloo Region. Our team consists of Family Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Registered Nurses, Social Workers, Dietitians, Chiropodists, Pharmacists, Psychiatrists, Health Promoters, Community Health Workers, Administrative Staff and Volunteers.

We invite you to consider this opportunity to join our team and contribute to this important work.

The Health Centre is currently recruiting for the following position:

Pay: $36.33 - $43.77 per hour

Part-Time (FTE 0.4 - 15 hours a week) to Full-Time (FTE 1.0 - 37.5 hours a week)

18 Month Fixed Term Contract

• Paid Vacation Leave: 3 weeks to start; 4 weeks after 1 year
• Paid Public Holidays & Sick Leave
• Defined Benefit Pension Plan through HOOPP (optional for part time)
• Extended health and dental insurance (for FTE 0.6 or greater)
• Life, Accidental Death, and Long-Term Disability insurance (for FTE 0.6 or greater)

The Registered Dietitian
- Diabetes Education Program (DEP) provides community based nutritional and health assessments, diabetes self-management education, insulin management, nutritional care services, and behaviour change support for people living with type 2 diabetes in the Kitchener Waterloo region.

The role operates within a client-centered health team, in collaboration with CHCKW staff, Primary Care Practitioners, Endocrinologists, Community Partners and the Waterloo Community Diabetes program.

The RD participates in the development, delivery and evaluation of programs and services for CHCKW and the regional Waterloo Community Diabetes Program.

• 1. Provide individual and group education, nutritional and health assessments, counselling and teaching, client focused nutritional plans and behaviour change support within the RD scope of practice (as determined by the College of Dietitians of Ontario).
• 2. Develop client-focused nutritional plans.
• 3. Use EMR and other relevant technology appropriately to support patients.
• 4. Support the implementation of client centred insulin initiation and/or ongoing diabetes management orders as authorized by referring/primary care practitioner.
• 5. As a CDE provide diabetes foot checks and checks for hyperlipotrophy as needed.
• 6. Participate in the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Diabetes Education programs for individuals and client populations as determined by CHCKW and the Community Diabetes Program, Waterloo Region.
• 7. Work collaboratively to perform community nutrition needs assessments and identify barriers to acquiring adequate food security and facilitate and support community initiatives to improve food security.
• 8. Participate in the Regional diabetes program planning, delivery and evaluation.
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