Community Health Specialist

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• Supportive team environment
• Dynamic orientation
• Opportunity to make a difference through health education, health promotion and disease prevention; collaborative engagement with community partners to address public health priorities; and a work culture that promotes continuous learning culture?

The Fairfax County Health Department is the largest public health department in Virginia, serving 1.2 million residents from diverse ethnic, cultural, and economic backgrounds throughout Fairfax County. With more than 100 years of leadership in the public health field, we are committed to protecting, promoting, and improving the health and quality of life for all in our community. This position provides community outreach, health promotion and prevention education to ethnically diverse communities, non-profit organizations, hard to reach populations, small businesses and faith communities.

Duties and responsibilities are carried out in coordination with a Community Health and Engagement team that includes an outreach manager, outreach supervisor, community health specialists, and other agency staff, and in collaboration with a wide array of community partners. Responsible for implementing and participating in evaluation of agency strategies used to leverage critical community assets in providing population-based interventions aimed at addressing root cause and other social determinants of health known to negatively impact community health.

Note:

The successful candidate will be working evenings and weekends on a regular basis. This position is fully in person and is not eligible for telework.

• Knowledge of program development, implementation and elementary evaluation;
• Knowledge of communities being served, cultural diversities and resources available;
• Knowledge of the social, economic and environmental factors that increase an individual's and community’s risk for chronic disease (e.g. communicable disease, stressor diseases such as cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes and asthma);
• Knowledge of disease management/health promotion models that target the treatment of disease in symptomatic or at-risk individuals;
• Ability to conduct screening, monitoring and education, coordination of care (i.e., physicians, hospitals, laboratories, and pharmacies) and evidence-based practice guidelines to identify and treat disease conditions before they advance to an acute or chronic stage;
• Ability to develop, collect and analyze outcome data to evaluate effectiveness of disease management/health promotion programs;
• Ability to plan, develop and/or deliver health education programs to specific target populations including health promotion, wellness and prevention programs;
• Ability to work independently and deliver health education presentations within the community;
• Ability to work predominantly with adults, applying learning concepts;
• Ability to work with sub-group of the community to organize and implement health education services;
• Ability to communicate effectively through the use of verbal, written and electronic means.

Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a bachelor's degree in health education, human services, or a directly related field; plus one year of experience in communicable and/or chronic disease education, investigation or other types of health-related work involving considerable public contact.

• Valid driver's license
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) (Required within 60 days)
• AED (Required within 60 days)

The appointee to this position will be required to complete a criminal background check, a Child Protective Services Registry check, and a driving record check to the satisfaction of the employer. Additional Work Schedule Requirements:
Flexible work schedule will be required to work evening and/or weekend community meetings or events to and/or be on-call.

• Master's degree in public health or related field of study.
• Two or more years of experience designing, implementing and…