Community Health Educator

BJC HealthCare • St. Louis, MO

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About The Position

Exciting and new opportunity with BJC Healthcare! As a Community Health Educator, you will lead vital prevention education across diverse environments, including local schools and community wellness hubs like libraries, recreation centers, and youth centers. This role offers the unique opportunity to empower both youth (Pre-K through High School) and adults by teaching essential life skills such as Social Emotional Learning (SEL), bullying prevention, and mental health resilience. Role will require travel in the Metro St. Louis area and have ability to work some evenings and weekends. Overview BJC HealthCare is one of the largest nonprofit health care organizations in the United States, delivering services to residents primarily in the greater St. Louis, southern Illinois and southeast Missouri regions. With net revenues of $6.3 billion and more than 30,000 employees, BJC serves patients and their families in urban, suburban and rural communities through its 14 hospitals and multiple community health locations. Services include inpatient and outpatient care, primary care, community health and wellness, workplace health, home health, community mental health, rehabilitation, long-term care and hospice. BJC is the largest provider of charity care, unreimbursed care and community benefits in the state of Missouri. BJC and its hospitals and health service organizations provide $785.9 million annually in community benefit. That includes $410.6 million in charity care and other financial assistance to patients to ensure medical care regardless of their ability to pay. In addition, BJC provides additional community benefits through commitments to research, emergency preparedness, regional health care safety net services, health literacy, community outreach and community health programs and regional economic development. BJC’s patients have access to the latest advances in medical science and technology through a formal affiliation between Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children’s Hospital with the renowned Washington University School of Medicine, which consistently ranks among the top medical schools in the country. Plans, develops and oversees the K-12 educational health prevention curriculum models implemented out of the department specifically focusing on fitness, nutrition, safety: intentional or unintentional injuries, tobacco use, substance abuse, and comprehensive sexuality to include STD's/HIV-AIDS.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• 2-5 years
• Valid Driver's License

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree
• Healthcare Admin/related

Responsibilities

• Plans, develops, coordinates, and oversees delivery of school and/or community health education and screenings.
• Consults with school community clients to determine health needs and assists in formulating and implementing plans to reduce risk factors.
• Partners with program staff, physicians, hospital administration, and relevant clinical disciplines and marketing teams to implement an integrated approach to managing priority populations.
• Establishes key relationships with community-based organizations focused on improving the health of their employees/school age children to gain efficiencies in providing programming and support to requesting agencies.
• Evaluates effectiveness of programs by implementing, monitoring and tracking program outcomes.
• Assesses health trends and ways to evaluate and focus on high risk and special needs populations.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
• Disability insurance paid for by BJC
• Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
• 401(k) plan with BJC match
• Tuition Assistance available on first day
• BJC Institute for Learning and Development
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
• Adoption assistance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level