Public Health Educator

Community Dementia Navigator

Community Dementia Navigators connect caregivers and individuals living with dementia to community resources and clinical support, helping them remain safely at home as long as possible.

Responsibilities

• Communicates with community partners to connect individuals with ADRD and caregivers to resources.
• Delivers educational materials, presentations, memory screenings, and resources to reduce dementia risk, support caregivers, and promote dementia-friendly environments.
• Collaborates with health care providers to promote early ADRD detection, diagnosis, resource awareness, and individualized care plans.
• Distributes evidence-based educational materials and interventions to the community, individuals with ADRD, and caregivers.
• Identifies and reports funding opportunities to support local ADRD and caregiver activities.
• Maintains secure client information, tracks client outcomes and barriers to care, and streamlines referrals.
• Maintains and tracks program success, individuals served, client satisfaction, and educational outreach.
• Develops and tracks partnerships focused on dementia risk reduction and support for individuals with ADRD and caregivers.
• Affirms and tracks community barriers to care for individuals with ADRD and caregivers.
• Stays current on evidence-based practices in dementia risk, ADRD, and caregiving.
• Uses data to inform program delivery and outreach.
• Participates in ongoing training to stay informed on research and resources.
• Communicates regularly with team members and supervisors at all levels to ensure program consistency.
• Facilitates collaboration with co-workers and external partners to ensure effective support for individuals with ADRD and caregivers.
• Communicates effectively with supervisors through multiple channels.

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor’s degree in public health, nursing, social work, or other comparable discipline and experience equivalent to two years of full-time increasingly responsible professional public health, nursing, social work or another related field.
• Licensed practical nurses with five years or more work experience working in a healthcare, home health, or community health setting.
• Additional graduate coursework in public health, community organizing, social work, nursing, or other related fields may be substituted for the required non-specialized experience on a year-for-year basis.
• Qualifying full-time experience in public health, nursing, social work, or other related fields may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis, to a maximum of four years.
• Personal experience caring for those with dementia or working in a setting where they came in close contact with people with dementia or caregivers are encouraged to apply.

Competencies

• Problem Solving
• Organizing
• Process Management
• Independence
• Perseverance
• Presentation Skills
• Written Communications
• Approachability
• Customer Focus
• Knowledge Communications and Media
• Education and Training
• Mathematics Skills
• Active Learning and Listening
• Critical Thinking
• Learning Strategies
• Monitoring
• Reading Comprehension
• Public Speaking
• Strong Writing Skills
• Instructing
• Systems Evaluation
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook
• Fluency of ideas
• Oral Comprehension
• Oral Expression
• Written Comprehension
• Written Expression