Healthy Living Facilitator

**Requisition ID**: 369005
**Position Number**: 880-715521216H284-01
**Posting End Date**: Open Until Filled
**City**: Southport
**Employer**: Southern Health-Santé Sud
**Site**: Regional Office - Southport
**Department / Unit**: Public Health - Healthy Living
**Job Stream**: Clinical Support
**Union**: MGEU
**Anticipated Start Date**: As mutually agreed
**FTE**: 1.0
**Anticipated Shift**: Days, with occasional evenings and weekends as required
**Daily Hours Worked**: 7.25
**Salary**: As per MGEU Prof Tech Collective Agreement
Shared Health leads the planning and coordinates the integration of patient-centered clinical and preventive health services across Manitoba. The organization also delivers some province-wide health services and supports centralized administrative and business functions for Manitoba health organizations.
**Position Summary**:
Reporting to the Manager, Health Services - Public Health-Healthy Living, the Healthy Living Facilitator is part of a multidisciplinary Public Health-Healthy Living team that uses principals of population health promotion, health equity and community health development to support communities and groups in areas of assessment, program development and capacity building for health. Activities focus on primary and secondary prevention and health promotion, with a responsibility to maintain communication with Southern Health-Santé Sud staff and community stakeholders. The Healthy Living Facilitator will work with communities as they identify, develop, implement and evaluate initiatives including Health Public Policy that promotes health.
The incumbent will exercise the appropriate level of initiative and independent judgment in determining work priorities, work methods to be employed and action to be taken on unusual matters. The position functions in a manner that is consistent with the mission, vision and values; and the policies of Southern Health-Santé Sud.

**Qualifications**:

- Post-secondary degree in a relevant health discipline
- Minimum of two (2) years' experience in community health development and/or population health promotion
- Experience working with populations with diverse cultural and social backgrounds would be considered an asset
- Training and experience in mental health promotion would be considered an asset
- Demonstrated ability in marketing and evaluation of health promotion programs communication, critical thinking, and the ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Demonstrated ability in leadership, using a broad range of comprehensive and multi-faceted strategies to strengthen community action, re-orientate health services, develop personal skills, create supportive environments and build healthy public policy
- Given the cultural diversity of our region, the ability to respect and promote a culturally diverse population is required
- Proficiency of both official languages is essential for target and designated bilingual positions
- Demonstrated ability to meet the physical and mental demands of the job
- Demonstrated ability to respect confidentiality including paper, electronic formats and other mediums
- Good work and attendance record

**Conditions of Employment**:

- Completes and maintains a satisfactory Criminal Record Check, Vulnerable Sector Search, Adult Abuse Registry Check and Child Abuse Registry Check, as appropriate.
- All Health Care workers are required to be immunized as a condition of employment in accordance with Southern HealthSanté Sud policy.
- Requires a valid Class 5 driver's license, an all-purpose insured vehicle and liability insurance of at least $1,000,000.00

Please note that an employee is not permitted to hold two or more positions in Shared Health that combine to equal more than 1.0 FTE.
Shared Health values and supports employment equity and workplace diversity and encourages all qualified individuals to apply. We thank all applicants but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.