Associate Nutritionist – Cantonese Speaking (Remote, APAC)

Associate Nutritionist – Cantonese Speaking (Remote, APAC)

Atrium HR Consulting is the only human resources company to offer a one-stop solution for organisations to manage their globally mobile workforce, no matter where they are stationed throughout the world.

Operating across 6 continents, we are one of the first human resources companies to embrace the opportunities provided by online technology in order to deliver global wellness and coaching services 24 hours a day, anywhere in the world.

We are constantly growing and are now seeking to add a Part-Time Qualified Nutritionist for our Asia team. The successful applicant will join us on a part-time associate basis at an hourly rate as agreed during contract negotiations.

Role Purpose

Working in a confidential setting, you’ll listen attentively to Atrium clients about their health, nutrition, and wellness goals, offering them time, empathy and respect. The purpose of the role is to assess how nutrition skills and education can improve the client’s quality of life based on their biochemically individual needs and to use food and food education as the foundation for wellbeing.

The role of the Nutritionist is not to diagnose, offer a cure, or treat, but to help people to explore how food can play a part in improving longevity, energy, immunity, hormonal balance, digestion, mental clarity and more.

Our Nutritionists use a holistic approach to wellness and allow our clients to reflect on their daily food and lifestyle choices as they work to understand the root cause of their concerns and consider alternative ways of doing things. Our Nutritionists do not give advice but help our clients to make their own food and dietary choices.

Responsibilities

• Establish a relationship of trust and respect with Atriums clients, communicating qualifications, experience and working methods accurately
• Take time to fully understand the issues or concerns of the client and their background
• Agree to a nutrition counselling contract to determine what will be covered in sessions (including confidentiality issues) potential benefits and commitments
• Take a full health history of the client, and create a personal wellness plan that includes suggestions for food, activity, sleep and lifestyle enhancements
• Actively listen to client concerns and empathize with their position
• Help clients towards a deeper understanding of their health concerns
• Accept without bias the issues raised by clients
• Understand when a health issue may fall outside the nutritionist’s scope of practice and further referral is needed
• Help clients to make food decisions and choices regarding possible ways to use whole foods to bring balance to their body systems
• Respect the client’s right to be self-governing and autonomous
• Liaise with Atrium to refer clients to other sources of help, as appropriate
• Liaise with Atrium and where necessary with other professionals and individuals to help make changes based on the issues raised by clients
• Work to agreed targets in relation to client contact
• Monitor client experience and effects of the nutrition suggestions and education
• Keep accurate and appropriate records and use reporting tools to report outcomes to Atrium
• Protect client confidentiality and privacy
• Respect and adhere to the Atrium processes of referral and billing
• Pass all questions and queries from clients to the Atrium team regarding cost and commercial arrangements
• Keep skills and knowledge up to date by attending supervision and training courses

Qualifications

• Must be a qualified Nutritionist
• Freelance/ Private practice seeking to add Atrium Assignments to their existing workload.
• Must be comfortable presenting to large groups in Cantonese.
• A flexible schedule, able to meet clients anywhere around the world (online)

• Training Online: The most important thing is that they are comfortable presenting to large groups in Cantonese

• Communication: able to work and communicate with people from all backgrounds, and communicate well with the Atrium team. English language proficiency is a must, with a second language preferred.
• Relationship building: able to be warm, open and empathetic, able to gain people’s trust and help them feel relaxed. Build solid, trusting relationships with the Atrium team.
• Tolerance: able to be patient, tolerant and sensitive with an impartial, non-judgmental attitude, and inclusive to all ethnicities and genders.
• Trustworthy: able to be trustworthy and discreet, with a good sense of personal integrity and ethics, respecting the trust placed in the nutritionist.
• Resilient: able to be resilient and have high self-awareness of own capability, with the ability to examine your own thoughts and feelings and understand your limitations so as not to be personally diminished.
• Integrity: able to deal with others in a moral way, including being straightforward, honest and coherent.
• Planning and Organizing: Exceptional time management skills, energetic and highly skilled ability to establish efficiently an appropriate course of action for self and/or others to accomplish a goal.
• Information Technology: Experience using Microsoft applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and VC solutions such as Zoom and Teams
• Industry: Ability to develop and enhance the quality of professional knowledge in the wellness industry.

Behaviours

• Ambitious: Strong desire for success and to personally develop skills and experience. Focused on achieving goals whilst reviewing results and making efforts to continually improve own performance.
• Professional: Exceptional professionalism in both manner and appearance.
• Accountable: Respects opinions and is confident in giving their own opinions in a constructive, open and honest manner. Takes responsibility for issues and problems and will work collaboratively in order to find solutions.
• Determined: Resilient, focused and self-disciplined attitude towards short-term and long-term projects and objectives.
• Progressive: Critically analyses subjects with skilful judgment to ensure excellence, accepts nothing but the best and persists until the best is achieved.
• Curious: Questions everything, acts upon a foundation of knowledge, and makes informed decisions.