Toronto, Ontario, Canada
A professional and reliable Nutrition Educator with diverse food industry experience obtained from healthcare, school, restaurant, and catering environments. Skillfully translates strategy into action, understanding customer focus, building rapport and continuously developing skill set to meet challenges and achieve organizational goals. Successfully hire and train staff of 10-15 employees and volunteers. Promoting a healthy lifestyle through food and nutrition while combating food insecurity to ensure nutritional standards are upheld. Providing cooking classes for 20-30 participants. Committed to upholding health and safety measures and providing education and presentations. Innovative, self-directed and solution driven with a well-developed nutrition expertise. Dedicated to collaboration and utilizing experiences to apply competency in the field of food service and nutrition while providing a positive impact on coworkers and clientele. Skilled in public speaking and facilitating groups.
Providing one-on-one virtual care to residents of youth living in Ontario struggling with nutrition, disordered eating and other food intake issues. -Working with an interdisciplinary team of healthcare providers to provide high-quality, client-centered and specialized nutrition care.
Conducting detailed nutrition consultations and creating personalized meal plans to meet client needs. Hosting virtual cooking classes with original developed recipes. ● Assessing client’s nutritional requirements and current health plans to develop and implement meal plans. ● Assisting clients in proper meal planning, preparation, and diet therapies, ensuring nutritional needs are met. ● Designing recipe specifications, marketing and facilitating weekly virtual workshops for participants. ● Developing and testing new recipes to ensure they are easy to prepare and are low in cost. ● Educating clients about gentle nutrition and the benefits of balanced diets, while providing diverse recipes. ● Working one-on-one with clients and groups while maintaining confidential client records and information. ● Creating engaging digital video content on social media focusing on culinary trends, wellness and nutritional information.
Working in the healthcare setting in a nutrition capacity to provide comprehensive nutritional care plans to patients. This role involves exposure in both the Eating Disorder Clinic and General Medicine Unit settings. Main duties include: ● Coordinating culinary programming for adults with disordered eating and other co-morbidities. ● Accompanying patients to the grocery store to provide support during shopping and meal preparations. ● Teaching food demonstrations to develop cooking skills, nutrition comprehension and safety practices. ● Developing culinary education resources on nutrition, kitchen management and food safety guidelines. ● Supporting clients through weekly, individualized, menu planning sessions and documenting as needed. ● Generating daily food tallies and ingredient requisitions and maintaining a 6-week menu cycle. ● Reporting weekly food orders to hospital food services, while properly storing and updating records. ● Developing and implementing new initiatives and protocols to improve patient care. ● Demonstrating a high level of IT skills including the full Microsoft Office suite and ability to navigate large amounts of data using various software. ● Actively participates as part of a multidisciplinary clinical team to work within the psychology of mental illness.
• Conducting nutrition screening, monitoring of patients nutritonal status, identifying suitable nutrition therapy and providing nutrition education. • Screening patient census/charts for potential nutrition risk through new admissions, diagnosis, diet orders, therapeutic diet combinations and food allergies; gather relevant data that has nutritional implications and identifies factors that place patients at risk of malnutrition. • Assisting Registered Dietitians to develop a nutrition care plan for low to moderate nutrition risk patients and nutrition monitoring for high risk patients, as assigned. • Communicating activities to maintain and enhance the quality of service. • Documenting clear and concise nutrition care plans in medical charts in accordance with hospital patient confidentiality policy.
Establishes and facilitates nutrition programs for adults living with disordered eating, eating disorders and other co-morbidities. Ensures session are anti-oppression, creating a space for participants to express their unique circumstances and express their own identity safely. Main responsibilities include: ● Develop programs to be delivering in-person and virtual programs (zoom) to individuals living with eating disorders, food insecurity and other co-morbidities. ● Planning weekly session to develop skills and knowledge to nourish clients and increase comfort in the kitchen. ● Creating diverse and varied recipes and assisting in meal execution to allow clients to prepare gratifying food. ● Facilitating group grocery shopping trips to support client’s re-integration into the community. Presenting clients with a hands-on, skills-based guide to kitchens, meal preparation and food science. ● Teaching and develops adult education that includes nutrition, culinary skills, health education and decision-making, while emphasizing healthy eating habits and kitchen safety. ● Procuring ingredients, organizing equipment, managing client feedback, and adhering to imposed budgets. ● Ensuring all food service standards and quality requirements. ● Implementing program evaluation to gain feedback on performance measures and organizational development.