Director of Community Health

• Community Health Needs Assessment: Provides oversight and direction for the CHNAs for all hospitals in the region and contributes to the CHNA process as needed. Collects and analyzes internal and external data in service of CHNA processes. Facilitates collaboration between community stakeholders in CHNA process. Ensures community engagement including diverse groups within the community in CHNA process.
• Community Health Improvement Planning and Action: Identifies policies, programs, and services that align with identified community health needs, builds support for relevant work and necessary funding, and leads implementation accordingly. Makes, leads, and champions evidence-based decision making processes regarding policies, programs, and services. Effectively evaluates and guides others in evaluating the impact of policies, programs, and services (e.g. outputs, outcomes, processes, procedures, return on investment).
• Community Engagement and Cultural Awareness: Creates and maintains partnerships and opportunities for individuals and organizations to collaborate to improve health in communities served by the ministry. Ensures diverse perspectives of internal and external stakeholders are honored. Identifies public policy advocacy opportunities in alignment with community health needs and organizational advocacy leadership; Partners with advocacy director to achieve meaningful change in state and local contexts.
• Strategic Thinking and Organizational Leadership: Ensures local ministries are participating in a local community health strategy. Develops, leads, and integrates the regional strategic direction of community health in collaboration with regional leadership and other local community health staff. Contributes to and implements system-level community health strategy. Helps to integrate public health competence within the broader activities and efforts of SSM Health.
• Planning and Management: Ensures community benefit reporting is accomplished in a thorough, timely, and accurate manner. Leads and guides community health leaders, finance partners, and CBISA data-entry efforts across region. Manages department budget and/or partners on decisions about spending from other budgets. Utilizes evaluations of the impact of policies, programs, and services to support informed decisions about programming. Identifies and generates support for budgeted dollars that are sufficient to support programming.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor's degree

EXPERIENCE

• Seven years' experience, with five years in leadership

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

SSM Health is a nationally recognized Catholic, not-for-profit integrated health system serving Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin.

To request additional information, confidentially submit your interest, or nominate a fellow colleague, please contact:

Angela Jones

Executive Talent Acquisition

Angela.Jones1@ssmhealth.com