Child Care Consultant - Public Health Educator II

  • Chatham County Public Health Department
  • Pittsboro, NC
  • Apr 12, 2021
Full time Public Health

Job Description

Chatham County Employment Opportunity

HR Announcement Number:

 

Job Title: Child Care Consultant – Public Health Educator II

Location:  Chatham County Public Health Department, 80 East Street, Pittsboro NC

Contact Person:  Dorothy Rawleigh

Telephone number:  919-545-8322

Address to send application and College transcript to: 

Chatham County Human Resources

PO Box 1809, Pittsboro, NC  27312

 

Or apply online at:  https://chathamnc.seamlessdocs.com/f/ChathamJobApplication

 

For State of North Carolina Application (PD-107):http://oshr.nc.gov/document/nc-state-government-application-employment-pd-107

 

Job Summary:  The Chatham County Public Health Department seeks a collaborative, self-motivated, creative, and enthusiastic individual with a background in public health, teamwork, and child health for the Child Care Health Consultation (CCHC) position in the Health Promotion and Policy Division. The CCHC position is a community-based position that works with early care and education (child care) administrators, operators, early educators, health care professionals, families and community partners to ensure healthy and safe environments for children in child care. The CCHC offers training and technical assistance through consultation and coaching. The CCHC understands and utilizes equity principles when implementing programs to promote equitable health outcomes for child care programs, early educators, children and their families. The CCHC position is funded by Smart Start through the Chatham County Partnership for Children

Specific responsibilities include:

  • Work closely with the NC Child Care Health and Safety Resource Center, Child Care Licensing Consultant, Environmental Health Specialist and the local Chatham County Partnership for Children to understand and share the latest child care guidance, rules, regulations and best practices
  • Work collaboratively with stakeholders and apply a framework of equity, diversity, and inclusion to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate strategies to achieve high quality, healthy and safe child care environments
  • Guide early educators to meet child care health and safety requirements and achieve best practice standards
  • Offer consultation based on quality improvement plans
  • Provide health and safety training to improve health knowledge and skills of early educators
  • Provide consultation and training for early educators to interpret and implement medical action plans for children with special health care needs
  • Act as a liaison with local health professionals and community service agencies by offering health education, community information, and referral resources to facilities and families
  • Advocate for young children by actively serving on and coordinating with local, regional, and statewide committees that support healthy growth and development of children
  • Establish and maintain on-going working relationships with other professionals offering technical assistance to early care and education settings
  • Participate in on-going professional development opportunities
  • Participate in webinars, regional meetings, and the annual CCHC conference
  • Manage the CCHC budget per Smart Start spending requirements
  • Gather and submit required program related data and report to funding agency, the Chatham County Partnership for Children
  • Work with Chatham County Partnership for Children to implement the Farm to Early Care and Education program
  • Serve on the epidemiology team and lead COVID-19 response efforts in child care
  • Provide COVID-19 vaccine education and outreach for child care programs

Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities :

The preferred knowledge, skills, and abilities for a CCHC candidate include:

  • Being self-motivated to learn and have the ability to work in an independent role
  • Having an understanding of health equity principles and how to implement them
  • Engage in conversations and seek on-going professional development on racism, its root causes, different forms, the effects it has on health outcomes and how to dismantle it on individual and structural levels
  • Having excellent communication and active listening skills
  • Having experience and knowledge of child health, development, and special health care needs
  • Having knowledge and skills related to public health theory, practices, principles, and techniques
  • Being able to understand and communicate the importance of injury prevention and health promotion
  • Knowing state and federal child care guidelines and regulations
  • Knowing how to locate community resources and access services for child care providers and families
  • Having experience in providing group training and be knowledgeable of adult learning strategies
  • Respecting the belief systems and cultural values of all people
  • Have experience or a strong interest in helping child care programs start their own educational gardens
  • Understand how to identify accurate and trustworthy health information
  • Be able to communicate the importance of childhood immunizations
  • Spanish speaking preferred, not required
  • Being able to:
    • multitask and prioritize
    • identify people’s capabilities, knowledge, skills, assets, and strengths and work to reinforce and build upon these foundations
    • tailor consultation to help early educators meet the needs and goals of families
    • elicit information and communicates clearly and concisely
    • nurture new partners and maintain positive and collaborative existing relationships
    • be flexible in the delivery of training and technical assistance based on the availability of facility staff
    • develop and maintain relationships with local and state early care and education technical assistance providers
    • document on-going child care assessment, quality improvement plans, consultation, and training
    • complete and submit regular reports to funding and hiring agencies
    • develop and distribute training materials and health and safety resources to facilities

 

Acceptable Training Experience:

 

A masters degree in public health education or in public health with a major in public health education; or graduation from a four-year college or university with a major in health education and two years experience in public health education or a related field; or graduation from a four-year college or university and three years experience in public health education; or an equivalent combination of training and experience.

The health professional becomes a qualified CCHC upon successful completion of the NC Child Care Health Consultant Course and receipt of a certificate of qualification. The 14-week course is facilitated by the NC Child Care Health and Safety Resource Center: www.healthychildcare.unc.edu and includes web-based distance learning, one on-site training sessions in the Raleigh area, and a final project.

 

  • Work Schedule:
  • Typically, CCHCs work a Monday – Friday, 8 hour/day schedule. This position is primarily office based but may include flexibility for some remote work days.
  • Occasional work on weekends and evenings is required to provide training.
  • Extensive county or regional travel is required.

 

Salary

Grade 63 ($46,191 – 58,893)  

Position Closing Date

Sunday, May 2, 2021

Chatham County is an equal opportunity employer

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