Health Promoter

**Job Description**:
**Health Promoter, School Health**

**Health Services, Chronic Disease & Injury Prevention**

**Status: C**ontract Full Time, 13 months**

**Salary Range: $76,054 to $95,068** per annum + **comprehensive benefits**

**Work Mode: Hybrid**_ see below for more details about this work mode_**

**Location: 7120 Hurontario Street, Mississauga**

**Hours of work: 35 hours per week**

**Who we are**:
The Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention division has exciting opportunities for a Health Promoter within the School Health team. This is an exciting opportunity to shape and educate the minds of the community and change the social environment into selecting healthier choices.

**What you will do in this role**:

- Plan, support, develop, implement and evaluate health promotion programs, policies and strategies
- Interpret and analyze information in order to provide recommendations to supervisor or middle management for policy and/or program development
- Participate in research projects including team, sectional or divisional projects
- Conduct community needs assessments and situational assessments
- Prepare detailed documentation, reports, briefing notes, scoping reviews and statistical analyses
- Develop written and visual communication products for social media, websites and presentations such as council reports, briefing notes, social media posts, website pages and presentations
- Develop knowledge translation products for a variety of stakeholders (i.e., children/parents, seniors, community partners and government organizations)
- Transfer or seek to transfer public health knowledge and skill
- Develop and maintain cooperative and collaborative relationships with internal and external partners
- Work to facilitate community mobilization and/or strengthen community capacities to take action on and improve health issues
- Ensure that issues of diversity, ethnicity, language and culture are reflected in health promotion planning and programs

**What the role requires**:

- University degree in a relevant health-related field
Minimum 1-year related experience in program planning, development, implementation and evaluation
- Combination of education and experience may be considered

**Skills/Abilities**:

- Knowledge of public health sciences including population health, social determinants of health, epidemiology and applicable legislation
- Knowledge and demonstrated expertise in using key theoretical models of health promotion
- Knowledge of standards as outlined in the Ontario Public Health Standards
- Background and understanding of research methods, policy implementation, analysis and critical appraisal including awareness of evidence informed decision making
- Strong critical thinking skills and ability to work independently and within a team
- Competence in Windows, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint and Outlook programs
- Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated communication, planning, facilitation, partnership/collaboration, project management, planning, problem-solving and organizational skills
- Demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through continuous development, modeling inclusive behaviors, and proactively managing bias
- Comprehensive Health, Dental, Vision benefit plan including psychological health, effective start date
- Automatic enrolment into OMERS pension plan
- Accrue Vacation on a monthly basis, starting at 3 weeks per annum
- 3 Paid personal days and floating holidays
- Flexible hours supporting your wellness and wellbeing
- Annual performance review and merit increases based on performance
- Supportive leadership and a culture of respect and inclusion
- Access to tuition reimbursement and learning and development resources

In this role, you'll enjoy the flexibility of a hybrid work arrangement. This means you'll have the ability to work off-site and on-site as needed, depending on operational needs at the 7120 Hurontario Street, Mississauga worksite. The frequency of on-site work may vary from week to week, depending on operational demands, which can evolve over time.

It's important to note that your off-site work location must be within the province of Ontario. This ensures that we're compliant with all regulations and policies.

The Region of Peel offers job based flexible hours of work that allows employees to manage personal and professional responsibilities while at the same time ensures business operational needs and customer service expectations are achieved.

**Interview**: Our recruitment process will include video conference technology

About Us:
Peel Region consists of the cities of Brampton and Mississauga, and the town of Caledon. Peel Region delivers essential services to more than 1.5 million residents and approximately 175,000 businesses.

We’re working to create a community that is safe, inclusive, and accessible. A place where everyone feels they belong and can access the services