Health Promotion Facilitator II

Your Opportunity:

Healthier Together (HT) is an Alberta-based population health promotion system built with communities, workplaces, schools, and health services including First Nations communities and Métis Settlements. HT uses a practical 5-step approach to bring people together, understand the local context, prioritize, plan, implement evidence-informed strategies, evaluate, and scale and spread successful initiatives across the province. HT strengthens partnerships and collaboration through governance, intersectoral partnerships and participation by priority populations at the local level. HT is a cross-AHS project that will support implementation of collaborative healthy settings projects across Alberta. The Health Promotion Facilitator (HPF) will play a key role in HT by facilitating planning and community action to create/enhance environments that promote health and prevent disease. The position provides operational support and coordination in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of the AHS HT initiative and works collaboratively with both AHS Zone and Provincial Teams. This position collaborates with diverse stakeholders, including internal staff and departments, government, community partners, and external agencies to support optimal health and well-being of individuals, groups, communities, and populations. The HPF is responsible for leading the development and implementation of HT at the local level and requires in-depth knowledge of program planning and stakeholder engagement. This position is part of the Edmonton Zone and will be based out of East Edmonton Health Centre. This position will also work closely with Team Members in Provincial Population and Public Health (PPPH) and in alignment with the HT Governance Structure to ensure consistency of approach across settings, share learnings, and strengthen collective measurement of outcomes.

Description:

As a Health Promotion Facilitator II, you will lead and coordinate health promotion, disease and injury prevention initiatives and programs using a population health promotion approach. You will identify behavioural, social, political, economic, environmental and organizational factors that promote or compromise health and recommend evidence-informed strategies to address identified priorities. You will conduct situational analyses, literature reviews, environmental scans and focus groups to make recommendations as part of an integrated program planning and evaluation process. You will manage projects using standardized tools and techniques that are conducive or aligned with health promotion, disease and injury prevention practices. You will collaborate with key internal and external key stakeholders in project or program planning, development, implementation, evaluation and improvement. You will facilitate community and staff engagement and build community and staff capacity around population health promotion priorities. You will evaluate the effectiveness of existing health promotion and disease prevention strategies and make recommendations.