Health Promotion Specialist (Full Time Days)

Position Summary

Health Promotion Specialists are responsible for leading and coordinating effective collaboration with community, government, and other stakeholders to address health and social determinants of health needs in Lancaster County. This role focuses specifically on mothers and infants engaged in Plans of Safe Care (POSC).

Qualifications

• Strong working knowledge of health equity, social determinants of health, community and coalition building, and public policy development and measurement.
• Lead transformational planning and execution for community health improvement efforts within the organization and throughout the community.
• Utilize data analysis to drive prioritization of Community Health Needs, interpreting and responding to local, state, and national health trends.
• Apply performance improvement methodology to develop, implement, and evaluate comprehensive plans that address public health issues within our community.
• Comprehensively review impact and success of initiatives, recommending any modifications to improve effectiveness as part of the strategic Community Health Improvement Plan.
• Build capacity throughout Lancaster County for community health improvement by initiating and facilitating community coalitions and collaboratives to address issues concerning our community.
• Drive collaboration within LG Health and LGHP to develop and maintain sustainable policy and systems changes.
• Outreach to target populations using appropriate age and culturally competent strategies, striving to remove barriers related to health inequity and social determinants of health.
• Effectively engage coalition, team, and workgroup members in an open dialogue to address gaps, overlap, and redundancy to collaboratively focus efforts on evidence-based tools and practices to achieve mutually agreed upon goals.
• Establish and maintain robust local and state relationships with organizations that have missions and or goals that compliment key focus issues.
• Identify, write, and manage grants to advance our initiatives related to community health improvement.
• Fulfill regulatory requirements from the IRS Schedule H, Form 990, mandated for not-for-profit hospitals.
• Provide community health improvement consulting services for the organization, providing training and networking opportunities to health, mental health and other community based partner organizations, culturally specific organizations, and or social services organizations.
• Present to community corporate groups on community health improvement efforts and or health data.
• Manage special projects as assigned.
• Serve as a role model for wellness to colleagues, staff and community at large.

Minimum Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Public Health or Health related field; OR in lieu of degree, three to five years of experience with project management, program development, or program evaluation.
• Strong statistical data collection, interpretation and reporting skills.
• Strong track record of problem solving and collaboration.
• Strong working knowledge of positive and adverse childhood experiences and trauma informed principles.
• Three to five years of community and coalition building experience.