Are you looking for a position that will allow you to use your knowledge and experience in Mental Health First Aid? Do you want to work on expanding children, youth, and family mental health training in Pierce County? Do you have strong skills in relationship building and coordination? If this sounds like you, we invite you to join our Behavioral & Emotional Health program within the Strengthening Families Division. This is a Project, Full-Time (1.0 FTE) position entry-professional classification that supports the implementation of prevention strategies, community health promotion programs, and policy development efforts. Responsibilities include considerable individual client contact, managing referrals to community programs and resources, and extensive contact with community groups and organizations to promote Department initiatives.
Distinguishing Characteristics
This position is the second level role of the Health Promotion Coordinator (HPC) series. An employee assigned to this classification will work independently under the supervision of a supervisor. This role requires strict adherence to well-defined directives, instructions, and procedures, and complies with local, state, and federal confidentiality policies.
Position Series-
Health Promotion Technician
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Health Promotion Coordinator I
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Health Promotion Coordinator II
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Health Promotion Coordinator III
Career Path Options
Options to continue your career at the Health Department depend on your interest, education, and training. Possibilities beyond the position series include:
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Office Administrator
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Communications Specialist I, II
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Executive Assistant II
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Technical Assistant
Essential Functions-
Builds rapport with clients and provides health education, instruction, and information in a manner that clients can easily understand and addresses barriers to access to services.
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Gathers, shares, and assesses information to identify efficient and effective interventions utilizing strategies that are evidence-based and culturally responsive and trauma informed.
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Conducts educational and informational programs for culturally diverse audiences of staff, clients, community groups, and professionals.
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Collaborates with clients, community members and coalitions, businesses, schools, partner providers, and other organizations to plan, coordinate, and staff community events.
Examples of Key Duties
The items in this section are the key duties and responsibilities for this job and do not represent an exhaustive list. Our organization is dynamic, and duties may change based on business needs. Any new duties will remain within the scope of the job.
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Deliver Mental Health First Aid curriculum and develop supporting materials (blogs, social posts, toolkits, flyers).
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Distribute materials to community.
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Plan events and training – including promotion of events.
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Create RFP (Request for Proposal), contracts, and manages grants.
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Create program work plans, communications plans, and evaluation plans.
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Engage with community partners, with an emphasis on schools and priority populations.
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Participate in meetings and recruitment of new members.
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Efficiently track invoices and send them to the manager for approval.
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Engage with community partners, schools and priority populations.
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Listen to community needs and identify solutions.
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Complete grant reporting and work with Assessment, Planning, and Development on evaluation.
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Builds rapport with clients and provides health education, instruction, and information in a manner that clients can easily understand and addresses barriers to access to services.
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Gathers, shares, and assesses information to identify efficient and effective interventions utilizing strategies that are evidence-based and culturally responsive and trauma informed.
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Assists clients in navigating the healthcare system and public health programs by phone and in person to help clients successfully participate in medical and/or behavioral care. Connects clients to community resources necessary to achieve healthy outcomes.
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Engages with community partners to increase awareness and prevention of public health issues, such as violence, childhood health and mortality, oral health, and substance use (tobacco, opioids, alcohol, etc).
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Identifies and addresses health-related social needs. Make referrals to local human service systems to support clients and address their needs, including housing, food, personal safety, transportation, childcare, chronic disease management, maternal and child health, behavioral health, and medical treatment and intervention.
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Collects and maintains accurate program data and records.
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Gathers and maintains information relevant to the needs of target populations and communities.
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Conducts educational and informational programs for culturally diverse audiences of staff, clients, community groups, and professionals.
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Builds and maintains relationships with community partners.
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Collaborates with clients, community members and coalitions, businesses, schools, partner providers, and other organizations to plan, coordinate, and staff community events.
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Uses purchasing card to make purchases for the assigned program.
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The work you do might require you to participate in the Title XIX Medicaid Claiming Program.
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Performs other duties as assigned.
Safety & Emergency Preparedness-
Adheres to all workplace and trade safety laws, regulations, standards, and practices.
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Understands and properly follows established procedures in preventing and responding to unsafe or emergency situations. Identifies and reports potentially unsafe practices or conditions.
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Operates equipment, tools, machinery, and vehicles safely and understands processes for reporting an accident or injury.
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Understands and applies knowledge and skills necessary to successfully perform assigned emergency response role during an emergency.
When public health responds to an emergency, you may be assigned duties and responsibilities that are outside your regular job description. This may involve responding at any time and reporting to a location other than the department with different working conditions and physical requirements. You are expected to participate in emergency preparedness activities including our emergency notification system, WA SECURES. Drills and real-world events may take place at any time.
For a full description of the classification specification click here.
The items below are the requirements for the job and are relevant to this position. The organization values work experience, lived experience, and education and realizes that people take different paths to acquire knowledge.
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Associate’s degree.
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3 years of relevant experience in a health, environmental, education, government, or other public sector organization.
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1 year of experience working with underserved communities preferred.
We will consider any equivalent combination of education and experience that provides the necessary qualifications to successfully perform the duties of the position.
Professional Certifications, Licensure, and Other Requirements
We require or prefer the below for this classification.
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Valid driver’s license and an acceptable driver’s abstract required prior to employment.
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Mental Health First Aid instructor certificate (preferred)
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Lived mental health experience-self or loved one (preferred).
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Public speaking, instructing large groups, coordination of activities and events (preferred).
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Expert speaker in another language (preferred).
