Responsibilities:
- Assist staff dietitians with tasks related to client care, including preparing food/meals/snacks and putting away grocery deliveries
- Doing dishes, preparing food, cooking food, and simple grocery shopping trips
- Cleaning/tidying kitchen after meals and snacks
- Kitchen chores and Milieu Chores daily (ie, deep cleaning, restocking items, etc.)
- Collaborate with other members of a dynamic, multidisciplinary treatment team
- May include some light lifting
- Other tasks as assigned by manager
Requirements:
- Live, behave and talk in a way that reflects a non-diet, non-weight biased relationship with food and body.
- Exhibit a high degree of confidentiality and personal boundary setting
- Openness to learn new skills and take risks
- Comfortable with basics of nutrition, ie basic cooking skills, grocery shopping, dishwashing, etc.
Hours:
8-24 hours weekly; summer hours
Compensation: unpaid
Whitman College students please apply for the Whitman Internship Grant.
Opal’s Aspiration: To contribute to a world where all are able to live fully with freedom
Opal’s Vision: To inspire cultural change regarding food, body, movement and mental health
Opal’s Mission: To free people from diet culture by offering eating disorder treatment for food, body and exercise concerns
Staff Values: Better Together. Curiosity and Learning. Do it. Self-Inquiry. Repeat. Change the Script.