Health Education Specialist Job Description Rebecca P Meripo Health Education Programme and Administration Prof Susan Harman United States University
Introduction:
Job description is the formal written documents which clearly state the elements like job title, rank in the organisation, job duties, education, experience and special skills, salary range and some other supervisory responsibilities.
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Health care professionals build up audiovisual aids, fact sheets; write articles and public service announcements. They also can write reports on the progress of program and small grant proposals.(Health Education Specialist, 2008)
Job tasks:
• Should teach people to take good healthy decisions
• Should create and implement health education programs for the staff.
• Should conduct health screenings among the staff and also should make presentations
• Should provide the staff the information about certain diseases their diagnosis and treatment.
• Should design healthy programs for staff in the industry..
• In order to lose weight, quit smoking or increase their level of exercise the health education specialist should create incentives. (Health Educator Job Description and Salary, 2015)
Education:
Bachelor’s degree or higher in health education or promotion.
Certifications:
• Pass certification in health education specialist exam (CHES exam)
Experience requirements:
• Good knowledge of: public health education principles and practices to include needs assessment,
• Information dissemination and community organization relating to common health problems; basic disease etiologist and preventive strategies;
• Survey methods and basic statistics used to collect and interpret data;
• Training methods.
Introduction:
Job description is the formal written documents which clearly state the elements like job title, rank in the organisation, job duties, education, experience and special skills, salary range and some other supervisory responsibilities.
The job description …show more content…
Health care professionals build up audiovisual aids, fact sheets; write articles and public service announcements. They also can write reports on the progress of program and small grant proposals.(Health Education Specialist, 2008)
Job tasks:
• Should teach people to take good healthy decisions
• Should create and implement health education programs for the staff.
• Should conduct health screenings among the staff and also should make presentations
• Should provide the staff the information about certain diseases their diagnosis and treatment.
• Should design healthy programs for staff in the industry..
• In order to lose weight, quit smoking or increase their level of exercise the health education specialist should create incentives. (Health Educator Job Description and Salary, 2015)
Education:
Bachelor’s degree or higher in health education or promotion.
Certifications:
• Pass certification in health education specialist exam (CHES exam)
Experience requirements:
• Good knowledge of: public health education principles and practices to include needs assessment,
• Information dissemination and community organization relating to common health problems; basic disease etiologist and preventive strategies;
• Survey methods and basic statistics used to collect and interpret data;
• Training methods.