PH Educator-Chatham

Description
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Who we are.
We protect lives.The Georgia Department of Public Health is the lead agency entrusted by the people of Georgia to proudly protect lives and promote healthy lifestyles in diverse communities statewide. We are committed to preventing disease, injury, and disability; promoting health and well-being; and preparing the State of Georgia for responding to disasters.

Benefits
What we offer.
As a member of the Georgia Department of Public Health team, you will join a passionate group of individuals who are dedicated to making an impact. No matter your role, you will individually contribute to protecting the lives of all Georgians while receiving a wide range of benefits, so you can:

• Make a Professional Impact – Build your career where it matters and protect lives in the community where you live, work, and play
• Work with a Dynamic and Diverse Team– Collaborative and inclusive way of working where employees share ideas and leverage collective strengths
• Achieve Career Longevity – Countless opportunities for continuous learning/development that support a long-term career
• Take Part in a Hands-on Working Culture – Unique culture of active engagement and problem-solving, no matter your role
• Feel Pride in Where you Work – Be part of making an impact in public health alongside dedicated people just like you

Promote, maintain, and improve individual and community health by assisting individuals and communities to adopt healthy behaviors for the purpose of preventing the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. Collect and analyze data to identify community needs prior to planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating programs designed to encourage healthy lifestyles, policies and environments.

May require occasional day time travel throughout the eight county district (Bryan, Camden, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Liberty, Long, McIntosh) with a heavy concentration on Chatham County. Will require incumbent to perform community outreach and HIV testing events, locate and counsel HIV/STD clients and contacts in the community, and discuss sensitive topics with groups of various sizes containing people from a variety of backgrounds.

All Coastal Health District, County Health Department employees are deemed essential employees in the event of an emergency. As such, you may be called on to participate in an event not limited to but including, staffing a shelter, a Specimen Point of Collection Site (SPOC) and/or Point of Dispensing site (POD). When you are called on to participate, you are expected and it will be a part of your job requirement to participate, whether the emergency occurs during or outside regular work hours.
Job Responsibilities

• Provides HIV/STD health education to individuals and community members in various locations throughout the eight-county area of the Coastal Health District 9-1 (Bryan, Camden, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Liberty, Long, McIntosh).
• Determine level of education activities to suit the individual and community group needs and wants.
• Provides HIV Testing & Counseling in the community to a wide range of at-risk and targeted populations to ensure testing goals are met.
• Distributes condoms and education materials to individuals and community groups as requested.
• Work to strengthen community ties with the program and maintain relationships with a wide variety of groups.
• Assess individual and community needs for health education plans effective health education activities, implement health education programs, communicate health and health education needs and serves as a resource person in health education. Collaborates with health specialists and civic groups to ascertain community health needs, determine availability of services, and to develop goals.
• Conducts community surveys to ascertain health needs, develop desirable health goals, and determine availability of professional health services.
• Plan and coordinate delivery of intervention activities.
• Prepare and submit monthly service reports for the Coastal Health District and the State Health Office of HIV/AIDS.
• Meet with Prevention Team on a scheduled basis.
• Participates in HIV Prevention Quarterly Calls, including quality management meetings to collaborate, identify and report on issues such as barriers to prevention and care.
• Attend conferences, educational webinars and meetings to increase knowledge of best practices.

Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in education, social, behavioral, or biological sciences or a directly related field from an accredited college or university and one (1) year of

experience in public health education or one (1) year of experience at the lower level Hlth Educator 1 (HCP030) or position equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications: Experience with and knowledge of HIV/STDs, testing, speaking in public, interacting with diverse populations and the ability to work with various community groups on projects and events. Good working knowledge of best practice counseling approaches, interventions, and strategies that have been proven effective with the target population.

Additional Information

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Benefits for Full Time Eligible Employees

• 13 Paid Holidays
• Generous Leave Package-Educational Support Leave and 3 weeks each accrued Annual and Sick Leave
• Defined Benefit retirement plan
• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Health Care Spending Account
• Dependent Care Spending Account
• Life Insurance
• AD&D Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• Legal Insurance
• Long-Term Care Insurance
• Specified Illness
• Deferred Compensation (401K & 457 Plans)

Additional Perks

• A supportive and rewarding work environment
• Physical Activity Breaks
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employee discount program
• Tuition Assistance

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Applicants chosen for employment will be subject to the following
Criminal Background Check/Fingerprinting
Education documentation must be provided by applicants. License/certification must be provided if required for position. Reference Checks & Immunizations Required

• May be subject to pre-employment drug screen

Due to the volume of applications received, we are unable to provide information on application status by phone or email. All qualified applicants will be considered but may not necessarily receive an interview. Selected applicants will be contacted
via email
by the hiring agency for next steps in the selection process. Applicants who are not selected will not receive notification. This position is subject to close at any time once a satisfactory applicant pool has been identified.

*Coastal Health District is an Equal Opportunity Employer*

The State will not unlawfully consider an applicant's race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, sex, genetic information, political affiliation, protected uniformed service, or other legally protected category when making selections.

If you require accommodations under the American Disability Act (ADA), notify this agency of your request by the closing date of this announcement.