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Minnesota Community Care - Saint Paul, MN

posted 11 days ago

Full-time - Entry Level
Saint Paul, MN

About the position

The Health Educator is a valued member of the Minnesota Community Care team, strengthening our community through the planning, delivery, and evaluation of culturally and linguistically appropriate health education and outreach activities on a variety of health topics, in individual, group, clinical, and community settings.

Responsibilities

  • Plan, deliver, and evaluate individual and group health education services in clinical, community, and classroom settings on appropriate health topics to effectively increase awareness and understanding for adolescent and adult populations.
  • Liaise with clinical care team and program staff to identify, recruit, and enroll eligible clients into health education services.
  • Assess needs of clients and determine objectives of health education based upon collaboration with supervisor, the multidisciplinary team, and program manager.
  • Align clinical interventions, group education, parent education, community programs and educational materials with current evidence and best practices.
  • Create and assess educational strategy, appropriateness and effectiveness of printed materials, website content, and social media communication with key stakeholders, marketing, and leadership.
  • Develop, organize, and facilitate support groups and peer education programs with a variety of target populations.
  • Assume primary responsibility for enrolling participants, maintaining enrollment registries, planning classes in consultation with clinical counterpart, arranging logistics, monitoring attendance, and serving as primary communication contact for participants between classes.
  • Follow methods of clinical documentation, data collection, tracking, entry, and reporting, as assigned.
  • Assess individual client needs, including social determinants of health and health literacy, to provide culturally sensitive counseling and educate on wellness, health issues, and specific health concerns to promote related behavioral changes.
  • Participate in community health education and outreach efforts by meeting/planning/engaging other community health stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in health education, public health, or related field
  • Demonstrated success working effectively with target population(s)
  • Participation in prior health promotion and health education in sexual and reproductive health

Nice-to-haves

  • Master's preferred in health education, public health, or related field
  • Previous classroom facilitation or education with adolescents in clinical or school settings
  • 1-3 years providing health education to adolescents
  • Experience working with parents in teaching sexual health in developing youth
  • Group or classroom facilitation/teaching
  • Experience planning, implementing, and evaluating health outreach activities
  • Bilingual strongly preferred
  • LGBTQ+ individuals encouraged to apply
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