Description
Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.
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This role focuses specifically on substance use prevention and education. Experience in substance use and/or behavioral health is preferred.
Schedule: Mondays-Fridays, 8AM-4:30PM, Hybrid
Summary:
- Health Promotion Specialists are responsible to lead and coordinate effective collaboration with community, government and other stakeholders to address health and social determinants of health needs in Lancaster County. This includes developing and implementing strategies that result in health care services, public policies, practices, and programs that effectively address identified needs. Additionally, this role will engage internal stakeholders to align community needs and business imperatives and identify and deploy organizational resources that support community health improvement. This position requires a strong working knowledge of health equity, social determinants of health, community and coalition building, and public policy development and measurement.
- Qualified individuals must have the ability with or without reasonable accommodation to perform the following duties:
- Lead transformational planning and execution for community health improvement efforts within the organization and throughout the community.
- Utilize data analysis to drive prioritization of Community Health Needs, interpreting and responding to local, state, and national health trends.
- Apply performance improvement methodology to develop, implement, and evaluate comprehensive plans that address public health issues within our community.
- Comprehensively review impact and success of initiatives, recommending any modifications to improve effectiveness as part of the strategic Community Health Improvement Plan.
- Build capacity throughout Lancaster County for community health improvement by initiating and facilitating community coalitions and collaboratives to address issues concerning our community.
- Drive collaboration within LG Health and LGHP to develop and maintain sustainable policy and systems changes.
- Outreach to target populations using appropriate age and culturally competent strategies, striving to remove barriers related to health inequity and social determinants of health.
- Effectively engage coalition, team, and workgroup members in an open dialogue to address gaps, overlap, and redundancy to collaboratively focus efforts on evidence-based tools and practices to achieve mutually agreed upon goals.
- Establish and maintain robust local and state relationships with organizations that have missions and or goals that compliment key focus issues.
- Identify, write, and manage grants to advance our initiatives related to community health improvement.
- Fulfill regulatory requirements from the IRS Schedule H, Form 990 , mandated for not-for-profit hospitals.
- Provide community health improvement consulting services for the organization, providing training and networking opportunities to health, mental health and other community based partner organizations, culturally specific organizations, and or social services organizations.
- Present to community corporate groups on community health improvement efforts and or health data.
- Manage special projects as assigned
- Serve as a role model for wellness to colleagues, staff and community at large.
- The following duties are considered secondary to the primary duties listed above:
- Provide educational sessions regarding wellness and prevention and health-related topics as needed.
- Respond to media requests.
- Assist manage in tracking budget expenses and revenue related to assigned priorities as appropriate.
- Other duties as assigned.
Responsibilities:
- Minimum Required Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Public Health or Health related field; OR in lieu of degree, three 3 to five 5 years of experience with project management, program development, or program evaluation.
- Strong statistical data collection, interpretation and reporting skills.
- Strong track record of problem solving and collaboration.
- Strong working knowledge of positive and adverse childhood experiences and trauma informed principles.
- Three 3 to five 5 years of community and coalition building experience.
- Minimum of three 3 years of experience in health or human service related field.
- Master degree in Public Health.
- Certification in Healthy Housing or in another environmental field at time of hire.
- Experience with motivating and engaging diverse partners.
- Two 2 years of leadership experience.
- Attention Concentration: The following level of ability is essential for the jobholder to focus on certain aspects of current experience and reject others.
- The position requires the ability to attend to more than one aspect of a situation simultaneously. It is highly likely that multiple task demands are going to be required of the individual at the same time.
- New Learning and Memory: The following level of ability is essential for the jobholder to learn and retain material.
- A large portion of this position required reliance on verbal memory and new learning. Efficiency in processing of verbal information, either in written or spoken form, is a major requirement and prerequisite of the job. The individual must be able to attend to and process multiple bits of information simultaneously. The individual must be able to organize and categorize this information effectively so that later recall is feasible.
- Problem Solving, Reasoning and Creative Thinking: The following level of ability that is essential for the jobholder to think in order to solve a problem by combining two or more elements from past experience or imaginative thought.
- The position requires much autonomy of thought and problem solving. The individual must be able to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems. The individual must be able to think abstractly, which is manifested in the ability to form concepts, use categories, generalize from single instances, apply procedural rules and general principles, and be aware of subtle or intrinsic aspects of a problem. The development of hypothesis and potential solutions to problems involves careful interpretation, analysis and diagnosis. The individual must be able to collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. The individual must be able to think creatively with a degree of inventiveness, experimentation and intuition. They must be able to deal with a variety of concrete and abstract variables.
- The following are essential requirements of the position in relation to job-worker situations. These items describe how a worker must adapt, adjust, conform or act.
- Leadership, control and planning: Ability to accept responsibility for leadership, direction, control, planning, negotiating, organizing, directing, supervising, formulating practices, or making final decisions.
- Performing under stressful conditions: Ability to perform under stress when confronted with emergency, critical, unusual, or dangerous situations, or in situations in which working speed and sustained attention are critical aspects of the job. Is subject to danger or risk, or to tension as a regular, consistent part of the job.
- Variety and change: Ability to perform a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure involving significant differences in technologies, techniques, procedures, environmental factors, physical demands, or work situations.
- Communication: Ability to exchange information with others clearly and concisely; to present ideas, facts and technical information.
- Interpersonal relations: Ability to maintain relationships that facilitate task accomplishment; to cooperate and resolve conflicts; to recognize needs and be sensitive of others.
Credentials:
Education or Equivalent Experience:
- Bachelor of Arts or Science (Required)
- H.S. Diploma/GED (Required)
- Master of Arts or Science
We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.
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We are an Equal Opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.