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Public Health Nutritionist Supervisor

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Public Health Nutritionist Supervisor

Salary

$4,470.00 - $8,044.00 Monthly

Location

New Iberia, LA

Job Type

Classified

Job Number

OPH/PTT/216149

Department

LDH-Office of Public Health

Opening Date

01/07/2026

Closing Date

1/17/2026 11:59 PM Central

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About this Job

The mission of the Louisiana Department of Health is to protect and promote health and to ensure access to medical, preventive, and rehabilitative services for all residents of the State of Louisiana.

Learn more about Louisiana Department of Health (https://ldh.la.gov/)

Lead, inspire, and make a lasting impact on community health as a Public Health Nutritionist Supervisor/Registered Dietitian. In this role, you’ll provide leadership and expert nutrition services primarily within the WIC program while supporting other public health initiatives as needed. You’ll play a key role in guiding nutrition services that support women, infants, and children, all while practicing at the top of your license in a dynamic clinic or regional setting. If you’re a licensed Registered Dietitian in Louisiana who is passionate about public health and leadership, this is an opportunity to advance your career while improving lives.

Minimum Qualifications

Possession of a permanent Louisiana Dietitian/Nutritionist license plus three years of licensed experience in public health nutrition or dietetics in a clinical setting.

Job Specification

The official job specifications for this role, as defined by the State Civil Service, can be foundhere.

Job Duties and Other Information

Job Duties:

+ Provide supervisory oversight and clinical leadership to Public Health Nutritionists, Health Educators, Nutrition Educators, and contract staff; monitor performance, approve work, manage clinic flow, and ensure high-quality WIC and public health nutrition services.

+ Serve as the High Risk Nutritionist for the WIC program by conducting comprehensive nutrition assessments, determining nutrition risk, providing high-risk counseling, prescribing individualized food packages, performing anthropometric measurements and laboratory testing, and delivering wrap-around case management and referrals.

+ Interpret and implement state and federal WIC policies and procedures; independently provide certification and recertification services; document services accurately in LAWIN; and monitor and approve clinical documentation completed by provisional staff.

+ Oversee infant and pediatric formula management, including approving exempt formula prescriptions, ordering and tracking formula, maintaining inventory systems, projecting future needs, and ensuring timely and accurate distribution across assigned locations.

+ Lead quality improvement, nutrition education, and outreach efforts by monitoring and enhancing clinical workflows, supervising outreach activities, promoting breastfeeding, developing educational materials and training programs, and serving as a subject matter expert in maternal and child nutrition.

+ Manage staff development and program operations by conducting evaluations, approving leave and time, supporting hiring and disciplinary processes, assisting with strategic planning, supporting emergency response activities, collaborating with other program supervisors, and representing the program through training, coalitions, and special projects.

Position-Specific Details:

Appointment Type: This position may be filled as a Probationary appointment

Cost Center: 3262109004/9992300

Position Number(s): 50455330

How To Apply:

No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.

To apply for this vacancy, click on the “Apply” link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.

*Information to support your eligibility for the position must be included in the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education). Resumeswill notbe accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.

Contact Information:

Paul Tran

[email protected]

LA Department of Health (LDH)

Division of Human Resources

PO Box 4818

Baton Rouge, LA 70821

225-342-6477

This organization participates in E-verify, and for more information on E-verify, please contact DHS at 1-888-464-4218.

LDH supports Louisiana’s commitment to being a State as a Model Employer (SAME) by promoting the recruitment, hiring, and retention of individuals with disabilities.

Information on the Louisiana Works, Louisiana Rehabilitation Services is available here (https://www.laworks.net/workforcedev/lrs/lrs\_rehabilitation.asp) .

Louisiana State Government represents a wide variety of career options and offers an outstanding opportunity tomake a differencethrough public service. With an array of career opportunities in every major metropolitan center and in many rural areas, state employment provides an outstanding option to begin or continue your career.

As a state employee, you will earn competitive pay, choose from a variety of benefits, and have access to a great professional development program:

Insurance Coverage More information can be found at https://info.groupbenefits.org/

Parental Leave– Up to six weeks paid parental leave

More information can be found athttps://www.civilservice.louisiana.gov/Parental-Leave/Default.aspx

Holidays and Leave – State employees receive the following paid holidays each year:

+ New Year's Day

+ Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,

+ Mardi Gras,

+ Good Friday,

+ Memorial Day,

+ Independence Day,

+ Labor Day,

+ Veteran's Day,

+ Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

***** Additional holidays may be proclaimed by the Governor

State employees earn sick and annual leave which can be accumulated and saved for future use. Your accrual rate increases as your years of service increase.

Retirement – State of Louisiana employees are eligible to participate in various retirement systems (based on the type of appointment and agency for which an employee works). These retirement systems provide retirement allowances and other benefits for state officers and employees and their beneficiaries. State retirement systems may include (but are not limited to):

+ Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (www.lasersonline.org). LASERS has provided this video (https://lasersonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Your\_Retirement\_System.mp4) to give you more detailed information about their system

+ Teacher's Retirement System of Louisiana (www.trsl.org),

+ Louisiana School Employees Retirement System (www.lsers.net), among others

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Do you possess a permanent Louisiana Dietitian/Nutritionist license?

+ Yes

+ No

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If you answered 'YES' to the question above, please list the license NUMBER, ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE, and EXPIRATION DATE. If you answered 'NO', enter N/A. ***NOTE***ORIGINAL issue date must be provided (NOT most recent renewal) as your licensed experience will be credited from the date you put here when you attained your license.

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To ensure compliance with LDH Nepotism Policy#41, if you have any immediate family members that are currently employed by LDH, please list the name and relationship. Please type “N/A” if no immediate family members are employed by LDH.

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Employer

State of Louisiana

Address

For agency contact information, please refer to

the supplemental information above.

Louisiana State Civil Service, Louisiana, 70802

Phone

(866) 783-5462

Website

http://agency.governmentjobs.com/louisiana/default.cfm

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