Health Specialist

Reports to: Director of Health and Safety

Responsibilities

• Assist in coordinating preventative health program/services for all children enrolled at partner sites and ASM site.
• Conduct routine in-person site visits with assigned partner sites to ensure Health & Safety components/goals are achieved twice a month and as needed.
• Complete formal site monitoring reports and submit reports of any non-compliance to Director of Health & Safety as required and requested.
• Support partner site staff with the submission and monitoring of all EPSDT data via CSD (electronic database/monitoring system): physical exams, well child exams, labs, dental exams, immunizations, vision and hearing screenings, etc.
• Collaborate with partner site staff in referring parents and families to community partnerships to help access medical and dental homes and other resources.
• Collaborate with community partners and establish partnerships for health, oral health, and WIC.
• Review, replenish, and monitor center’s first aid kits.
• Conduct quarterly facilities checklist in accordance with Health and Safety regulations per DFSS.
• Assist with collection of referral packets and health action plans for children with health concerns. Follow up with families directly to ensure that the child has all necessary medical care and follow-up care in place.
• Assist in offering Health & Safety training for bus evacuations to partner sites.
• Attend scheduled workshops, trainings, staff meetings, and all other work-related events.
• Collaborate with ASM site, ASM staff, and Partner sites to ensure that all staff maintain a current CPR/First Aid Certification.
• Provide partner sites with health and safety supplies as needed.
• Collaborate with ASM staff, ASM site, and Partner sites to ensure that all staff receive annual trainings including Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), Medication Administration, Bloodborne Pathogens, Mandated Reporter, and other required trainings.
• Work in collaboration with nurse consultants to ensure that children remain up to date on all health requirements per EPSDT schedule.
• Monitor and review child files to ensure that children are up to date by using a health tracking system and providing notices to families for expired information and/or follow-up.
• Provide internal/external training for health and safety as needed.
• Document all incidents/accidents reported by sites and submit them to VP and Director of Health & Safety.
• Ensure all partner sites have appropriate posters/certifications displayed (such as evacuation plans and emergency postings) in their designated areas per requirements of each center.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Early Childhood, Special Education, or Behavioral Services from an accredited educational institution.
• Two years minimum experience working with infant/toddler and preschool children and families.
• Transportation is required for this role; must have a valid driver’s license, a motor vehicle report acceptable to the agency’s insurance broker, and verification of insurance on the vehicle.
• Must be in compliance with background check requirements, updated medical, and all licensing mandates.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

• Coordinate professionally and effectively with other team members, other agency resources, and outside services in addressing client needs.
• Foster positive working relationships with clients, community, funding sources, and regulatory bodies.
• Work with other staff in a fair and honest manner while treating others with respect, compassion, and understanding.

Communication Skills

• Communicate effectively and clearly orally and in writing.
• Comfortable managing conflict across team members and delegating multiple perspectives.
• Provide regular supervision to staff which includes giving constructive feedback and acting as a system of support.
• Readiness to advocate for the needs of the children and families and other individuals served.

Organizational Skills

• Ability to analyze trends, identify patterns, and suggest solutions while collaborating with a team.
• Comfortable overseeing the work of other staff members and ensuring that all work is competent and completed in a timely manner.
• Skilled in time management and specifically can balance one’s workload on top of monitoring the work of supervisees.

Technological Skills

• Skillful in navigating Microsoft Office and related technologies to communicate with team and work on paperwork and documents.
• Willingness to learn and utilize new technologies.

Commitment to Mission

• Comply with all Ada S. McKinley policies and procedures as outlined in the organizational operating procedures and human resources manuals.
• Participate in the Teamwork, Innovation, and Excellence initiative.
• Contribute to the One Ada Culture.
• Embrace and practice the concepts of a growth mindset.

Child Development & Youth Services Core Competencies

• Adaptable: Adjust to new conditions, changes, challenges, and experiences.
• Communicator: Is understood by others (both verbally and in writing) and understands the ideas and perspectives of others.
• Uses a Growth Mindset: Embraces their potential to learn and grow and views successes and failures as development opportunities.
• Has Integrity: Honesty, trustworthiness, ownership, accountability, and respect are hallmarks of integrity.
• Collaborator: Cooperates and works well with peers, colleagues, and team members by giving and receiving ideas, comments, and feedback with an open mind.

Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities

• Demonstrates the experiences, beliefs, attitude, and awareness that indicate cultural sensitivity to the client population served.
• Ability to coordinate professionally and effectively with other team members, other agency resources, and outside services in addressing client needs.

Pay

$40,000 annually

Benefits

• Paid vacation
• Paid sick time
• 12 paid holidays
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 403(b) Plan
• Life Insurance
• Long-term & short-term disability
• Employee assistance program (EAP)
• Family medical leave
• Tuition reimbursement

Benefit options and eligibility vary by full-time and part-time positions.

Mental/Physical Demands

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to clients and other employees of the organization.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
• The employee is frequently required to sit.
• The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and reach with hands and arms.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Environmental Conditions

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate; work is performed in an office.