836 - Hl - Substance Use Program - Health Promotion

4 days ago


London, Canada Middlesex-London Health Unit Full time

Health Promotion Specialist (1 Permanent Full-Time)

The Middlesex-London Health Unit has an exciting opportunity for a permanent full-time Health Promotion Specialist to work on the Substance Use Program team in the Healthy Living division at the Citi Plaza location, London Ontario.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**: Under the direction of the Manager, Substance Use Program, the incumbent will:

- Identify program opportunities to develop and implement health promotion and population health strategies to address the Ontario Public Health Standards pertaining to substance use (alcohol, cannabis, tobacco, vapour products, opioids, and other drugs) and chronic disease prevention (tanning beds);
- Develop and produce written materials and knowledge mobilization tools including but not limited to: reports, technical documents, scoping reviews, health communications, presentations, educational resources and literature reviews and analysis, etc.
- Implement project management tools and processes to organize and support project completion.
- Contribute to a positive environment, working collaboratively with others and establishing constructive internal and external partnerships;
- Develop and provide knowledge translation for health promotion theories, strategies, and approaches for substance use and tanning bed program areas;
- Provide advice and recommendations to leadership as it relates to policy recommendations, legislation and initiatives at various levels of government;
- Assess and critically appraise evidence for health promotion action, healthy public policy options and health equity implications;
- Conduct environmental scans, needs assessments, and situational assessments to identify community perspectives, assets, resources, challenges, and gaps;
- Engage in culturally humble ways with partners and other relevant parties with the aim of enhancing collective capacity to address social determinants of health and health equity;
- Teach, mentor, and train colleagues and/or students in the practice of health promotion and project supervision;
- Perform other duties as assigned

**QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Master’s degree in Health Promotion, Public Health, Behavioural Sciences, Education or related field;
- Minimum of 5 years of health promotion experience with demonstrated advanced skills in population and community health, health communications, and healthy public policy;
- Advanced skills in applied health promotion, including community needs assessment, situational assessments, health communication, educational and skill building at individual, group and community levels, community development and mobilization, diversity and inclusion, continuous quality improvement, and healthy public policy advocacy, development and implementation;
- Ability to work independently;
- Extensive experience in community engagement, capacity building and community mobilization coupled with political acuity;
- Demonstrated experience working at the organizational, community, municipal, provincial or federal levels to help inform or influence policy development related to substance use prevention, harm reduction and health protection;
- Advanced interpersonal, presentation, written, and oral communication skills with demonstrated experience creating project proposals, evidence briefs, technical documents and correspondence to communicate epidemiologic findings;
- Demonstrated experience mobilizing committees and working groups to develop coordinated logic models, work plans, and indicators, and to achieve measurable outcomes; and,

The salary for this position ranges from $71,278.53 to $89,098.34 based on qualifications and experience.



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