Description
The Mount Sinai School Health Access and Resource Program, MS SHARP, is a centralized, targeted effort designed to provide support and access to children and adolescents experiencing homelessness at the five Mount Sinai School Based Clinic, MS SBHC, sites. We seek a self-motivated, dynamic individual to assume a programmatic leadership role. The individual must be adept at interdisciplinary collaboration, including health and mental health professionals, public school administration, community leaders, students, and their families. MS SHARP aims to build encompassing, empathetic, culturally sensitive care through cross-collaborations involving the school, community, medical institutions, government entities, and philanthropic organizations to offset negative factors and promote resilience.
Responsibilities
As an integral part of Mount Sinai Medical Center’s health care team, Health Educators analyze data to identify the community’s health needs in an effort to plan, design and implement programs that encourage healthy behavior and prevent disease. As an integral part of the community’s health education program, Health Educators provide information to individuals and communities in an effort to maintain, improve and adopt healthy lifestyles.
- Develops and presents health education and promotion programs such as training workshops, conferences, in small groups as well as individual sessions.
- Documents activities, recording information such as the numbers of applications completed, presentations conducted, and persons assisted. Assesses impact of treatment compliance.
- Develops and maintains cooperative working relationships with agencies and organizations interested in public health care.
- Prepares and distributes health education materials, including reports, bulletins, and visual aids such as films, videotapes, photographs, and posters.
- Develops operational plans and policies necessary to achieve health education objectives and services.
- Collaborates with health specialists and civic groups to determine community health needs and the availability of services, and to develop goals for meeting needs.
- Designs and conducts evaluations and diagnostic studies to assess the quality and performance of health education programs.
- Provides program information to the public conducting media campaigns, and/or maintaining program-related web sites.
- Performs other related duties.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in health education/promotion, public health, or community health,
- Masters degree in Health Education preferred. Phlebotomy training/certification preferred.
- Minimum one year experience
- Certification as a Certified Health Educator (CHES) from the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. preferred.
Compensation Statement
The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for this role is $58,661.00 - $65,520.00 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.
Non-Bargaining Unit, IBO - Pediatrics General Pediatrics School Based Health - ISM, Icahn School of Medicine
Employer Description
Strength Through Diversity
The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:
- Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
- Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
- Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.
At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.
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“About the Mount Sinai Health System:
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.
The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”
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Compensation
The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $58661 - $65520 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.
