Health Advocate
4 weeks ago
- Collaborates with the Health department, Social Service team in supporting the enrollment of children into the program and providing support in health services while they are enrolled.
- Maintains children’s records to ensure compliance with health and nutritional needs.
- Reviews and updates children files, including but not limited to data entry, filing, physical dental notices to parents, etc.
- Conducts health screenings including vision, hearing, height and weight, and assists with dental screening under the supervision of the health manager or nurse consultant.
- Works with families on children referral processes and follow up.
- Supports efforts to refer families for follow up with medical and dental care.
- Assists families in obtaining a complete medical, dental and developmental history for each child.
- Maintains a variety of logs, and inventory of health and nutrition supplies for classrooms.
- Conducts monthly safety checks of physical environment, playgrounds and completes monthly reports and follows up with facilities as needed.
- Monitors First Aid kits and and follows up as needed.
- Under the supervision of the health manager the health advocate monitors children’s medications, medication administration documents and care plans and follows up as needed.
- Conducts monthly safety drills, reports on the drills and provides follow-up as needed.
- Supports the accuracy of Health data.
- Collaborates with the Health Manager to educate teaching staff on children’s health and nutritional needs.
- Communicates with the LULAC team, parents, and children to provide information related to health and nutrition.
- Participates in professional development- e.g. attending meetings, workshops, conferences, etc.
- Other tasks as assigned.
Required Education and Experience
- Graduation from a recognized college or university with an Associate’s Degree with a concentration in Health and Nutrition or certification in related field.
- Any other combination of training and/or experience, which demonstrates that the applicant is likely to possess the required skills, knowledge and abilities, may be considered.
- Bilingual (English-Spanish) preferred
Additional Requirements
- Ability to prioritize tasks and be flexible to programs changes deemed necessary.
- Ability to work in an open, fast-paced, nontraditional agency under high pressure.
- Ability to frequently meet deadlines with attention to detail.
- Ability to work as part of a team as well as independently.
- Computer literate and comfortable with acquiring new technology skills.
- Communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
- Ability to travel from site to site per program needs.
- Must have a health screening and TB test prior to start of employment.
- Must pass a criminal records check (Fingerprint Clearance)
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