Parents As Teachers Home Visiting Health Educator - 20 hours/week Time Limited - Health Department

Job Description

Salt Lake County… A career with a purpose in the community you love!

Salt Lake County invites you to explore our exciting career opportunities. We seek highly enthusiastic individuals to enrich our County with your experience and talent. If you enjoy working in a team environment that is committed to changing the lives of its community, please keep reading.

What it is like to work here:

At Salt Lake County, our culture is woven into every aspect of our work and our employees’ lives, from how we treat each other to how we support the community. To promote and foster a fun and healthy work environment, we appreciate employees through great benefits, a healthy work-life balance, and room to grow and develop.

Surround yourself with:

Peers who are motivated to make a difference in the lives of those we serve. We serve Salt Lake County and envision a safe and beautiful place for all to live, work, and have fun. Salt Lake County is about connecting people and championing our community. Community is more than a place… It's our it's and service that bring us together.

We encourage a work-life balance:

Working for Salt Lake County is more than just a paycheck. A career with /Salt Lake County includes several benefits and perks. We support our employees with 12 Holidays, up to 24 vacation days, 12 sick days, and one personal day every year.  

Additional Benefits include:

• Retirement options for hybrid pension/401(k) or 401(k) only with a 10% contribution
• Medical coverage, including a 100% county paid premium option
• Dental and Vision coverage, including coverage for adult designees
• Health Savings account with a county contribution up to $1200/year, Flexible Spending Account
• 100% county-paid Long-Term Disability and Short-Term Disability option
• Professional development, including professional membership fees paid
• Plus: Onsite medical clinic and gym; hospital insurance, pet insurance, auto and home insurance, and discounts at County facilities. 

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JOB SUMMARY

Represents the Division of Community Health Services in countywide health education, health promotion, and risk reduction programs. This 20-hour-per-week position serves families with children ages 0-5 through home visits using the Parents as Teachers curriculum and by conducting age-appropriate developmental and social-emotional screenings and assessments to promote healthy children and families. This position is community-based and requires travel and client visits in Salt Lake County. The Health Educator will work with families of children ages 0-5 to promote strong families and healthy child development. 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

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.

Due to the nature of this position, the successful applicant must 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 issued by the State of Utah is required at the time of hire to operate a county vehicle.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Develops, plans, and implements health education, risk-reduction behavior, and outreach programs.
• Assesses 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.
• Creates and implements policy focused on population-based behavior change.
• Develops 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.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES (KSA)

Knowledge of:

• Health Education theory
• Preventive health strategies and risk reduction techniques
• Techniques 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 to:

• Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
• Communicate and deal effectively with the public, government, business, and community leaders
• Use a word processor/computer
• Prepare and explain data by written, graphic, or verbal methods
• Work effectively with people from a variety of social, ethnic, economic, educational, and professional backgrounds
• Work with minimum supervision and act independently
• Design and implement evaluation methodologies, scientific studies, needs assessments, data collection, and reporting mechanisms
• Interpret and follow instructions
• Work effectively in team settings

IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING THIS POSITION

Time-limited Appointed employees will perform work for a specified amount of time, dependent on agency funding. They are exempt from the rights of a merit employee and work as at-will employees.

Additional Information

WORKING CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING THIS POSITION

This position requires travel within Salt Lake County using a personal vehicle, with mileage reimbursement. Work schedule is 20 hours/week during the usual business times of Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, with some evenings and weekends to meet the needs of clients/families.