Health Educator

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 all aspects of our work and our employees’ lives, from the way we treat each other to the way 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….its our heart 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, childcare 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 position serves families, with children ages 0-5, through 2 monthly home visits using the Parents as Teachers curriculum, conducting age-appropriate screenings and assessments to promote healthy children and families. This position is community based and requires travel and visits in client’s homes in Salt Lake County.  The Health Educator will be working with families with 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.

Must be Bilingual in English and Spanish, and requires reading, writing, and speaking both English and Spanish fluently without the use of a translation app or program.

Employee will need to obtain their certificate as a Parents as Teacher curriculum.

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 accepted by the State of Utah is required at the time of hire. A valid Driver’s License issued by the State of Utah must be obtained within six (6) months of hire to operate a county vehicle.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:  

• Develops, plans and implements health education, behavior risk reduction, 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 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

Additional Information

This position does require traveling within Salt Lake County using personal vehicle with mileage reimbursement. Work schedule is flexible to meet the needs of families, with some evening and weekend hours.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING THIS POSITION

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