Health Promoter- Public Health

**Req ID: 191022**
**Location: Provincial Zone, Flexible Within the Province**
**Department: PH Mobile Unit**
**Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT (100%) x 1**
**NSGEU** **Admin Professionals Position**
**Posting Closing Date: 16-Nov-24**

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres, and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators, and creative thinkers today.

**About the Opportunity**:
Public Health Mobile Unit (PHMU) is a provincial PH program developed in 2020 as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The PHMU program is evolving as a Public Health transformation area of work to continue to support community work. The PHMU work delivers health services to communities across the province supporting emergency preparedness, healthy communities, health protection, early years, and immunization.

**About You**:
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

- Bachelor’s degree in Health Promotion/ Public Health plus five years community based/Public Health experience OR Masters degree in Health Promotion/Public Health plus two years community-based/ Public Health experience
- Experience in planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of health promotion programs, policies, services, and initiatives
- First Aid/ CPR Certification
- Demonstrated proficiency in the Core Competencies for Public Health and LEADS.
- Demonstrated competency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Demonstrated knowledge translation and communication skills, including written and verbal
- Understanding of a population based approach
- Demonstrated success in building strategic partnerships, networks, coalitions, and collaborative working relationships with a variety of internal and external partners to support healthy communities work.
- Demonstrated negotiation and conflict management skills; strong judgement, decision making and problem solving skills
- Demonstrated understanding of health impact assessment
- Travel will be required. A valid drivers' license and access to a reliable vehicle
- Competencies in other languages an asset; French preferred

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certification

**Hours**:

- Permanent Full-Time; 70 hours biweekly
- Beginning as soon as possible
- Shifts may include occasional nights, holidays, and weekends
- Travel will be required.

**Compensation and Benefits**:
$35.09 - $45.61 Hourly

**Once You've Applied**

Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

This is a Admin Professionals bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Employees are encouraged to view their seniority hours and dates in their SuccessFactors online profile. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units, or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and/or usage, prior to accepting the position.