Public Health Educator 2- Injury Prevention and Detection
Key Responsibilities:
This position is housed within the Injury Prevention and Detection section and will work with the injury prevention program.
Minimum Qualifications:
Graduate from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree in health education, biology, or a related field and experience equivalent to one year full-time professional health education work.
Substitution of Experience for Education: Qualifying full-time professional experience in health education may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis, to a maximum of four years.
Substitution of Education for Experience: Additional qualifying graduate coursework in health education, biology, or related field may be substituted for the required experience, on a year-for year basis, to a maximum of one year.
Key Responsibilities:
• Recruit and train community partners to implement evidence-based or evidence-informed initiatives such as the Checkpoints program (motor vehicle crash prevention), Safe Stars Initiative (youth sports injury prevention), and Coaching Boys into Men (violence prevention).
• Provide assistance with injury prevention projects; tasks include providing education/training to the community, providing materials, developing materials, collecting reports, etc.
• Assist with evaluation of injury prevention projects; tasks include developing surveys, analyzing survey results, collecting and inputting data
• Promote programs through conferences, meetings, etc.
To apply:
If interested please send resume to Rachel.Heitmann@tn.gov
Who we are and what we do:
The Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) has seven regional offices located across Tennessee; each of these are responsible for assisting county health departments within their jurisdiction.
TDH provides staff members for the 24 Health Professional Boards, three committees, two councils and four registries responsible for the licensures and regulation of more than three dozen health and medical professions within Tennessee.
TDH’s mission is to protect, promote and improve the health and prosperity of people in Tennessee.
Key Competencies for this role:
Customer Focus
Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers
Problem Solving
Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions
Interpersonal Savvy
Builds appropriate rapport; uses diplomacy and tact.
Pursuant to the State of Tennessee’s Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State’s policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person’s race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran’s status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.