What are the responsibilities and job description for the COMMUNITY HEALTH EDUCATOR position at Sentara Health?
City/State
Harrisonburg, VA
Overview
Work Shift
First (Days) (United States of America)
Sentara is currently hiring a Community Health Educator Position is located in Rockingham, VA.
Sentara RMH Medical Center began as Rockingham Memorial Hospital in 1912. Serving a seven-county area with a population of close to 218,000 residents, the 238-bed community hospital partnered with the Sentara Healthcare system in May of 2011.
Sentara RMH Medical Center has conducted a community health needs assessment. Read the assessment and learn how we are working to address the areas of greatest need. Sentara is a 125-year-old, not-for-profit system that operates more than 100 sites of care throughout Virginia and North Carolina, including 12 acute care hospitals: seven in Hampton Roads, one in Northern Virginia, two in the Blue Ridge region, one in southern Virginia and one in northeast North Carolina. To learn more about Sentara RMH Medical Center and our past decade as part of the Sentara Healthcare system, please read "Where Community is Our Story: A Community Report"
This role will engages in health promotion activities and implements best practice public health strategies and interventions to promote health and well-being. Develops and presents educational programs; educations patients/clients on disease self-management and health behavior change strategies; promotes disease prevention and early detection; provides guidance on available resources.
Job Requirements: Associate's Level Degree - Experience in lieu of education: Yes Preferred: Related - 1-2 years of public health or social work related experience preferred. 2 years related experience required in lieu of Associates degree.
Active Drivers license and a clean driving record required
Benefits
Bilingual strongly preferred
Sentara Healthcare offers employees comprehensive health care and retirement benefits designed with you and your family's well-being in mind. Our benefits packages are designed to change with you by meeting your needs now and anticipating what comes next. You have a variety of options for medical, dental and vision insurance, life insurance, disability and voluntary benefits as well as Paid Time Off in the form of sick time, vacation time and paid parental leave. Team Members have opportunity to earn an annual flat amount Bonus payment if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met.
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Job Summary
Engages in health promotion activities and implements best practice public health strategies and interventions to promote health and well-being. Develops and presents educational programs; educations patients/clients on disease self-management and health behavior change strategies; promotes disease prevention and early detection; provides guidance on available resources.
Qualifications:
ALD - Associate's Level Degree
Related experience
Skills
Active Listening, Communication, Instructing, Microsoft Office, Social Perceptiveness, Speaking, Writing
Sentara Healthcare prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.
Per Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA), some clinical environments require proof of education; these regulations are posted at ecfr.gov for further information. In an effort to expedite this verification requirement, we encourage you to upload your diploma or transcript at time of application.
In support of our mission “to improve health every day,” this is a tobacco-free environment.
Harrisonburg, VA
Overview
Work Shift
First (Days) (United States of America)
Sentara is currently hiring a Community Health Educator Position is located in Rockingham, VA.
Sentara RMH Medical Center began as Rockingham Memorial Hospital in 1912. Serving a seven-county area with a population of close to 218,000 residents, the 238-bed community hospital partnered with the Sentara Healthcare system in May of 2011.
Sentara RMH Medical Center has conducted a community health needs assessment. Read the assessment and learn how we are working to address the areas of greatest need. Sentara is a 125-year-old, not-for-profit system that operates more than 100 sites of care throughout Virginia and North Carolina, including 12 acute care hospitals: seven in Hampton Roads, one in Northern Virginia, two in the Blue Ridge region, one in southern Virginia and one in northeast North Carolina. To learn more about Sentara RMH Medical Center and our past decade as part of the Sentara Healthcare system, please read "Where Community is Our Story: A Community Report"
This role will engages in health promotion activities and implements best practice public health strategies and interventions to promote health and well-being. Develops and presents educational programs; educations patients/clients on disease self-management and health behavior change strategies; promotes disease prevention and early detection; provides guidance on available resources.
- This role will have clients that are new parents or newly pregnant below 20 years of age, must want to work with adolescent population.
Job Requirements: Associate's Level Degree - Experience in lieu of education: Yes Preferred: Related - 1-2 years of public health or social work related experience preferred. 2 years related experience required in lieu of Associates degree.
Active Drivers license and a clean driving record required
Benefits
Bilingual strongly preferred
Sentara Healthcare offers employees comprehensive health care and retirement benefits designed with you and your family's well-being in mind. Our benefits packages are designed to change with you by meeting your needs now and anticipating what comes next. You have a variety of options for medical, dental and vision insurance, life insurance, disability and voluntary benefits as well as Paid Time Off in the form of sick time, vacation time and paid parental leave. Team Members have opportunity to earn an annual flat amount Bonus payment if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met.
Talroo, Indeed, Monster
Job Summary
Engages in health promotion activities and implements best practice public health strategies and interventions to promote health and well-being. Develops and presents educational programs; educations patients/clients on disease self-management and health behavior change strategies; promotes disease prevention and early detection; provides guidance on available resources.
Qualifications:
ALD - Associate's Level Degree
Related experience
Skills
Active Listening, Communication, Instructing, Microsoft Office, Social Perceptiveness, Speaking, Writing
Sentara Healthcare prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.
Per Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA), some clinical environments require proof of education; these regulations are posted at ecfr.gov for further information. In an effort to expedite this verification requirement, we encourage you to upload your diploma or transcript at time of application.
In support of our mission “to improve health every day,” this is a tobacco-free environment.
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