Health Educator

2 weeks ago

Los Angeles County CA, United States Los Angeles County Department of Human Resources Full time

**TYPE OF RECRUITMENT**
- Open Competitive Opportunity

***EXAM NUMBER**
***Y4848J

**FILING DATES**:

- April 16, 2024 at 8:00 a.m. (PT)

**THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS A REPOSTING TO REOPEN THE EXAMINATION AND UPDATE SALARY INFORMATION, ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, AND SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONAIRE.**

**ABOUT LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES**:
Through academic affiliations with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Southern California (USC), and the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Sciences (CDU), DHS hospitals are training sites for physicians completing their Graduate Medical Education in nearly every medical specialty and subspecialty. In addition, to its direct clinical services, DHS also runs the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Agency and the County's 911 emergency response system, as well as Housing for Health and the Office of Diversion and Re-entry, each with a critical role in connecting vulnerable populations, including those released from correctional and institutional settings, to supportive housing.
**THE MISSION**:
To advance the health of our patients and our communities by providing extraordinary care.
**DEFINITION**:
**Essential Job Functions**:

- Determines community needs for public health education programs through investigation and evaluation of factors such as available health resources, communication systems, political and socio-cultural influences, housing, and the levels of income and education of the service planning area residents.
- Assists community-based organizations, medical providers, schools, public health personnel, and other County departments in recognizing and evaluating conditions contributing to poor health, planning program activities, selecting and utilizing public and private health resources, and motivating others in the community to lead and participate in improving their health status.
- Implements health education programs by utilizing broad ranges of methods and techniques in collaboration with service planning area, county-wide programs, academia, and target communities to meet the public health needs through activities such as developing and disseminating health education materials and speaking to groups on health related topics.
- Meets and contacts a variety of community stakeholders such as teachers, community group leaders, health officers, public health nurses, social workers, and others at various levels in the community in order to gain their support and cooperation in planning, promoting, implementing, and evaluating health education programs, and in coordinating their related health education program activities.
- Maintains contact with public and private agencies, community organizations, and professional groups to enlist community participation and support for health education activities in a service planning area.
- Provides expertise in health education methods by collaborating with service planning area staff to develop and conduct patient health education programs and in-service education programs for service planning area personnel.
- Coordinates the volunteer activities within a service planning area by recruiting volunteers, maintaining records of volunteer participation, and coordinating volunteer recognition programs.
- Evaluates whether health education programs meet objectives and adequately impact the target population's knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, practices, and behaviors by utilizing appropriate data collection methods such as pre and post-examinations, focus groups, surveys, and questionnaires, and by measuring the attendance at events in response to publicity campaigns and ultimately, the improvement of those conditions among service planning area residents which require the participation of a Health Educator. Refers to evaluation findings and community input for future program planning and policy development.
- Evaluates the literacy levels of target population and the appropriateness of resource materials.
- Advises Area Health Officers and other administrative staff in program planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of health education priorities for the service planning area.
- Oversee the activities of Health Education Assistants or other non-professional staff as needed.
- Recruit and oversee undergraduate and graduate health education students for internships or practicum for a specific program or service planning area as needed.

**Requirements**:
**MINIMUM REQUIREMENT**:
California Law requires a master's degree from a program of study accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health with specialization in Public Health Education, Community Health Education, or equivalent.

**LICENSE**:
A valid California Class C Driver License or the ability to utilize an alternative method of transportation when needed to carry out job-related essential functions.
**PHYSICAL CLASS II - Light**:
This class requires light physical effort that may include occasional light

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