QUALIFICATIONS:

Education, Training And Experience

Skills And Abilities

• Understanding of the principles and values of health promotion (healthy public policy, supportive environments, strengthen community action, develop personal skills, reorient health services) and basic health promotion (enable, mediate, advocate).
• Understanding of food security, food systems and sustainable food practices as they relate to and influence population health.
• Demonstrates understanding of the role of policy and how food and nutrition public policy is developed in Canada.
• Understanding of food and nutrition surveillance and monitoring as it relates to planning, policy analysis, program/project evaluation, advocacy and research.
• Understanding of the processes and roles of partnership, collaboration, and community development.
• Ability to enable, mediate and advocate to improve the health and wellbeing of the population through food and nutrition strategies.
• Competence in public speaking, group facilitation, collaboration and advocacy.
• Awareness of social determinants of health and their impact on health outcomes.
• Ability to work in accordance with cultural safety and trauma/resilience informed practices.
• Ability to work independently, demonstrating initiative, and with limited supervision while maintaining collaborative relationships with community stakeholders.
• Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team, utilizing interpersonal and team skills.
• Commitment to continued professional development as required by the employer.
• Communicates effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective work relationships with healthcare professional partners (PPH, Island Health staff, Ministry of Health, etc.) and external partners (community agency staff, municipalities and regional districts, school district staff, etc.).
• Demonstrated knowledge and application of dietetics in a client-centered approach to promote health when working with interdisciplinary public health staff, schools and community partners.
• Ability to use computers and software applications.
• Physically and emotionally able to perform the duties required of this position.