Public Health Educator (Behavioral Health and Chronic Diseases)

Salary\: $54,886 - $82,342

Position Grade\: 211G

Department\: Health

Job Type\: Full-Time (Permanent)

Examination Number\: EX1590

Location\: St. Louis, MO

Incumbents in this position will be responsible for providing instruction and information to individuals and groups and counseling individuals regarding Behavioral Health Bureau Linkage to Care programs and services.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities\:

● Conducts assessments and surveys to determine Behavioral Health educational needs.

● Collaborates with health specialists and stakeholders to set goals and achieve sustainable results.

● Develops plans and policies toward achieving health education objectives and monitors progress.

● Provides and coordinates services, referrals and helps individuals navigate behavioral health care services.

● Identifies community partners in creating a space for engagement, and collaboration; designed to connect individuals to supportive care.

● Designs and distributes health education material and aids, including pamphlets, notices, videos, audio clips, images, and posters.

● Assists with tracking calls, data and gaps in services; addressing mental health care in the community.

● Assesses individual needs; connecting them to appropriate community resources and maintaining communication to monitor progress.

● Facilitates health education events, workshops, outreach events, and presentations.

● Promotes health education initiatives via press releases, media campaigns, social media platforms, and websites.

● Identifies strategic partnerships with organizations and stakeholders that promote health education.

● Analyzes, evaluates, and reports public health data.

● Uses public health data to identify and establish community health needs in relation to mental health services.

● Provides staff, community agencies, and organizations with access to educational training.

● Maintains comprehensive program and activity records.

● Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities\:

● Extensive experience in collecting and analyzing data, as well as formulating objectives.

● Advanced ability to plan, implement, monitor, and evaluate health education programs.

● Ability to develop educational materials and aids and to promote and present health education initiatives.

● Ability to plan, develop, direct, and administer the work of a public health education unit or area of community need.

● Extensive experience in fostering strategic partnerships and coordinating objectives.

● Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office and/or Google Workplace.

● Comfort functioning in a role that requires a high degree of flexibility with the ability to independently interpret policies and solve non-routine, complex issues under minimal supervision.

● Aptitude for working in collaborative team environments focused on maturity, proactive communication, relationship-building skills, and resiliency.

● Demonstrates understanding of City of St. Louis policies and procedures and their application and impact on departmental operations and success.

● Data Utilization\: Requires the ability to perform mid-level data analysis including the ability to audit, deduce, assess, conclude and appraise. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such to established criteria to define consequences and develop alternatives. Requires the ability to perform mid-level data analysis including the ability to audit, deduce, assess, conclude and appraise. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such to established criteria to define consequences and develop alternatives.

● Human Interaction\: Requires the ability to provide first-level professional counseling to clients and/or patients on public health issues.

● Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use\: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or provide simple but continuous adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as motor vehicle, computer terminal, photocopier, TV/VCR, telephone and/or materials used in performing essential functions.

● Verbal Aptitude\: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of reference, descriptive and advisory data and information such as medical records, disease data, activity reports, professional periodicals, resource manuals, procedures, guidelines and non-routine correspondence.

● Mathematical Aptitude\: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate percentages and decimals; interpret descriptive statistical reports.

● Functional Reasoning\: Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems such as supervision, managing, leading, teaching, directing, planning, coordinating and controlling. Ability to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to problem resolution.

● Situational Reasoning\: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the direction, control and planning of an entire program or multiple programs.

● Environmental Factors\: Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental conditions such as diseases.

● Physical Requirements\: Requires the ability to lift, push and pull books, audiovisual equipment and presentation materials light to heavy objects and materials, weighing twenty (20) pounds and occasionally to over one hundred (100) pounds.

● Sensory Requirements\: Requires the ability to recognize and identify degrees of similarities or differences between characteristics of shapes to clearly distinguish objects and sounds to communicate with others and give public presentations.