Health Educator jobs in Wilmington, DE

Are you looking for a career where you'll make a real impact in the lives of others? Your interest in mental health, human services, or related life experience is valuable to us! We welcome you to join our team of caring, passionate and motivated individuals as a Parent Education in our Parents as Teachers Program. Acenda's expert team helps each individual, family and community move forward in their journey towards health and happiness.

About Acenda Integrated Health

As a non-profit organization, we are solely committed to our mission of moving lives forward. Acenda provides over 100 life-enhancing programs and services to individuals, families, and communities throughout New Jersey. By bringing together our bright teams, innovative services, and understanding, caring hearts, we as an organization are moving upward to move lives forward. We join together to provide a wide range of mental health, crisis services, parenting support, family-focused therapy, and residential programming.

What you'll do

Parents as Teachers is a home visitation program that provides health and parenting education and supportive services to families. Parent Educator educates families on prenatal health, infant/child health, and development, positive parenting practices, nurturing parent-child relationships, child safety, and education and employment. Designed to be a 3-year program and provide support to expectant parents from birth until the child is ready to enter kindergarten.

What we provide

• Competitive salary and 401k with a match
• Career advancement opportunities including participation in an Acenda leadership development program
• Year-end performance bonuses
• Health, vision and dental coverage for you and your family
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• CEU's and free training programs
• An innovative culture which allows you to grow and learn with the agency

What you'll bring to the team

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline
• Minimum of 2 years with infants and toddlers.
• Bilingual Spanish preferred
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in order to motivate and engage your team as well as be an effective leader across the agency
• Must have and maintain a valid driver's license, use of an insured vehicle and an acceptable driving record
• Professionalism and a commitment to excellence in care

Acenda's Equal Employment Opportunity Commitment

Acenda Integrated Health is committed to equal opportunity in employment. We consider applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, or any other legally protected status.

Acenda's support of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) brings together a diverse workforce to successfully achieve our mission of moving lives forward in the community. Acenda is an equal opportunity employer, we aim to create a productive workplace, where all workforce members feel engaged and valued. As part of Acenda, you play an important role in supporting our commitment to DEI throughout the organization.

All employment offers are contingent based upon the successful completion of a criminal background screening and pre-employment drug screening.