Sea Mar Community Health Centers

Assistant

• Enrolls and terminates WIC participants
• Provides participant orientation and delivers WIC benefits
• Maintains complete, up-to-date WIC charts and statistical program records
• Interviews clients and reviews client history, anthropometric data, laboratory data, and eating habits
• Performs screening procedures including weighing, measuring, hematocrit/hemoglobin testing, growth-grid plotting, and dietary evaluations
• Determines WIC eligibility and nutrition risk factors
• Refers high-risk clients and other clients to appropriate health or community resources
• Provides individual and group nutrition education
• Determines appropriate food packages and explains nutrient content of WIC foods
• Identifies contracted food vendors and issues manual or computerized food benefits
• Documents vendor and participant complaints and infractions
• Assists with clerical, statistical, breastfeeding promotion, and community nutrition education activities
• Attends meetings and participates in continuing education
• Travels in Western Washington as needed

WIC Nutrition Assistant Certifier 1

Community Health Worker

• Enrolls clients in the First Steps program and enters client information into database.
• Teaches basic principles of self-care including appropriate utilization of available pre- and postnatal care.
• Connect clients to Sea Mar and non-Sea Mar resources as appropriate.
• Provide appropriate provider and/or resource referrals to promote well-being within the family.
• Monitor and document clients’ ability to keep scheduled medical and social service appointments.
• Send letters and perform follow-up calls to patients for planned visits.
• Complete appropriate and timely documentation of client appointment.
• Update and maintain the MSS client database.
• Empower and educate clients in the appropriate use of healthcare resources.
• Attend regularly scheduled team meetings and demonstrate clear communication.

• Responsible for WIC participant enrollment, termination, orientation, benefit delivery and maintaining client files.
• Performs preliminary participant risk assessment and some basic nutrition education.
• Identifies and makes nutrition and other health or community service referrals.
• Assists with the Nutrition Program clerical support including, but not limited to; completing participant reports, maintaining records and monthly statistics.

Nutrition Assistant, Certifier I

General

• Provides Health Home services and similar supports for patients.
• Meets with patients in the location of their choice; their homes, in the community, at in-patient settings or in clinics.
• Works with the patient to create a Health Action Plan that includes long and short term goals.
• Follows up with the patient regularly to evaluate progress made towards goals.
• Participates in case review and/or multidisciplinary meetings with the client’s care team.

Integration Specialist – BA

Therapist

• Provides diagnostic assessments, referrals for psychiatric services, case management in coordination with other teams or parties involved in the treatment of children and families.
• Provides evidence-based individual and family counseling, crisis stabilization, suicide risk assessment, treatment plans, and leads groups in office, school, and/or community settings.
• Assists in program development, policy and procedure development, compliance with WACS and RCWS, and other administrative tasks.

WIC Nutrition Assistant Certifier 1

Community Health Worker

Nutrition Assistant, Certifier I

Integration Specialist – BA

Child and Family Therapist