Download LT Mitchel Holliday, MS, MSED, RD Nutrition Specialist Federal

LT Mitchel Holliday, MS, MSED, RD
Nutrition Specialist
Federal Bureau of Prisons
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Describe personal career progression
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Differentiate opportunities for dietitians
available within the Federal Bureau of Prisons
(BOP)
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Identify ways dietitians can contribute to the
USPHS mission within the BOP
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Have attempted to use continued development of PHS Core
Values as a goal for career progression as opposed to category
benchmarks
Opportunities for service to the public, OPDIVs, Dietitian
Category and USPHS rarely afforded to Junior Officers
Support from chain-of-command
Influenced by a number of outstanding officers through their
demonstration of PHS Core Values
Understand the populations I am serving and the importance
of the service provided
Understand how fortunate I am for having these opportunities
and have attempted to use them as motivation to continue to
serve in various roles to the best of my abilities
The more I focus on service, the faster I continue to develop
as an officer, the more opportunities for service have come to
me, and the faster my career has seemed to progress
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Finding out about PHS
Asking Questions
Tribal Affairs
The Cold Call
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CAPT Ramos-Tate and CAPT Fredrick (retired)
PHS Officer Mentorship
Pilot OBC Course
Service Unit Opportunities for Service
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Thomas Issermoyer – National Food Service
Administrator
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Combination of Food Service and Health
Service at National and Institutional Level
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Legal Nutrition
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Hurricane Ike Deployment
RDF-5
* Dietitian
* Food Service Unit Leader
* Public Information Officer
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Pikeville Field Training
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Subcommittees
* Readiness
* Professional Development
* Recruitment and Retention
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Professional Development Subcommittee Chair
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Have attempted to use continued development of PHS Core
Values as a goal for career progression as opposed to category
benchmarks
Opportunities for service to the public, OPDIVs, Dietitian
Category and USPHS rarely available to Junior Officers
Support from chain-of-command
Influenced by a number of outstanding officers, through their
demonstration of PHS Core Values
Understand the populations I am serving and the importance
of the service I provide
Understand how fortunate I am for having these opportunities
and have attempted to use them as motivation to continue to
serve in various roles to the best of my abilities
The more I focus on service, the faster I continue to develop
as an officer, the more opportunities for service have come to
me, and the faster my career has seemed to progress
130 +/- Assistant
Health Service
Administrator
Positions
6 Federal Medical
Centers
2 Clinical
Dietitians
Central Office
116 Health Service
Administrator
Positions
6 Regional Health
Service
Administrators
1 Chief
Dietitian
1 Nutrition
Specialist
National Health
Services
Administrator and
several other
Central Office
Health Service
related positions
The Federal Bureau of Prisons protects society
by confining offenders in the controlled
environments of prisons and community-based
facilities that are safe, humane, cost efficient,
and appropriately secure, and which provide
work and other self-improvement opportunities
to assist offenders in becoming law-abiding
citizens.
http://www.bop.gov/about/mission.jsp
The Health Services Division has three primary missions
relating to its concerns and responsibilities in medical care,
safety and environmental health, and food services:
- The health care mission of the Bureau of Prisons is to deliver
medically necessary health care to inmates effectively in
accordance with proven standards of care without
compromising public safety concerns inherent to the Bureau's
overall mission.
- The occupational safety and environmental health mission of
the Bureau of Prisons is to provide a safe and healthful
environment in which staff and inmates can work and live.
- The food service mission of the Bureau of Prisons is to
provide healthy, nutritionally-sound, and appetizing meals
that meet the needs of the general population and those at
nutritional risk.
- To provide inmates with meals that are nutritionally
adequate, properly prepared, and attractively served.
- To identify, develop, and manage essential resources to
meet the operational needs of the Food Service program.
- To ensure inmates assigned to Food Service are provided
with opportunities to acquire skills and abilities that may
assist them in obtaining employment after release.
- To provide inmates with nutritional information that
enables them to determine and establish healthy eating
habits.
Personal Opinion:
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There are nontraditional opportunities across the
country at all agency levels
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Nutritional Services are in their infancy stages within
the BOP. With the Central Office development of
dietitian positions, an increase in PHS Dietitians
presently serving in the BOP, and increased efforts
for collaboration among dietitians, it has/will
continue to open doors for opportunity in the areas
of clinical and public health nutrition advancement
Thank You