Parents As Teachers Home Visiting Health Educator - Time Limited - Health Department

About the role

Salt Lake County seeks a Health Educator to represent the Division of Community Health Services in countywide health education, health promotion, and risk reduction programs. This position serves families with children aged 0-5 through home visits using the Parents as Teachers curriculum, conducting developmental and social emotional screenings and assessments to promote healthy children and families.

Responsibilities

• Develops, plans, and implements health education, behavior risk reduction, and outreach programs.
• Affirms health education needs and priorities of various populations using appropriate assessment tools.
• Develops, conducts, and evaluates the effectiveness of health education/health promotion programs.
• Creates marketing and educational materials; promotes events through various marketing methods.
• Acts as a resource providing links to communities.
• Develops and implements policies focused on population-based behavior change.
• Creates and prepares required reports and documents.
• Collaborates with internal and community agencies to accomplish stated objectives.
• Acts as a representative of the agency and program.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Health Education, Health Science, Public Health, Early Childhood Education, Community Health, or Behavioral Science and Health with an emphasis in Health Education; OR an equivalent combination of related education and experience.
• Pass a required background check through fingerprinting and enrollment in the continuous RAP Back (Record of Arrest and Prosecution Back) program in accordance with current County Human Resources policy requirements.
• A valid Driver’s License accepted by the State of Utah is required at the time of hire.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Health Education theory.
• Preventive health strategies and risk reduction techniques.
• Techiques of effective program planning, development, and implementation.
• Evaluation methodologies including instrument design, data collection, analysis, and reporting techniques.
• Community organization methods.
• Recent developments in the fields of health education, health promotion, healthy lifestyle, and risk reduction.
• Federal, State, and local regulations related to medical, health care, and public law.
• Computer operations and uses, including word processing, graphics, spreadsheets, and presentation design.
• Program marketing, public relations, and media relations methods and techniques.
• Effective communication techniques including audio-visual use.
• Principles, methods, and techniques of conducting field and/or special studies and investigations using scientific research methods and techniques.
• Medical terminology.

Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of Health Education theory.
• Preventive health strategies and risk reduction techniques.
• Techiques of effective program planning, development, and implementation.
• Evaluation methodologies including instrument design, data collection, analysis, and reporting techniques.
• Community organization methods.
• Recent developments in the fields of health education, health promotion, healthy lifestyle, and risk reduction.
• Federal, State, and local regulations related to medical, health care, and public law.
• Computer operations and uses, including word processing, graphics, spreadsheets, and presentation design.
• Program marketing, public relations, and media relations methods and techniques.
• Effective communication techniques including audio-visual use.
• Principles, methods, and techniques of conducting field and/or special studies and investigations using scientific research methods and techniques.
• Medical terminology.

Benefits

Working for Salt Lake County includes several benefits and perks such as 12 holidays, up to 24 vacation days, 12 sick days, and one personal day annually. Additional benefits include retirement options, medical coverage, dental and vision coverage, health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, long-term disability, short-term disability, professional development, and more. For more information, click here.

Pay

The salary range for this position is TBD based on experience and qualifications.

Schedule

The Health Educator works Monday through Friday from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM with some evening and weekend hours to meet the needs of clients and families.