ES Health Educator - Child Care / 61057554

Full Job Description

Do you have a passion to provide meaningful work in the community?

Would you like to be part of an organization whose central mission is helping to protect, stabilize and strengthen the lives of children, families, and vulnerable adults?

Then the South Carolina Department of Social Services has the right job opportunity for you.

Job Duties:

The ES Health Educator will lead, supervise, and direct the work of the ES ABC Quality Health Educator team, as a supervisor, while maintaining regional technical assistance and Health & Safety inspection caseload.

Provide mentoring and coaching to ES ABC Quality Health Educators. Provide information and details about staff performance to program management.

Co-lead the Grow Outdoors SC program and launch the ABC Quality recognition Program. Responsible for the menu reviews from across the state.

Develop and deliver training to various stakeholders, including ABC Quality staff.

Develop or revise ABC Quality standards and policies that focus on nutrition, physical activity, and other relevant content areas.

• Supervise health educators to ensure coordinated and organized efforts related to the integration of nutrition, physical activity, and wellness strategies within ABC Quality and across the Division of Early Care and Education.

Lead and provide basic coordination of the Grow Outdoors SC program in partnership with SC Department of Public Health.

Assist programs in transforming and naturalizing their outdoor play and learning environments utilizing best practices from the Natural Learning Initiative and Early Childhood Health Outdoors (ECHO) initiative.

• Conduct program menu review from regions across the state; provide thoughtful recommendations to assist programs as they improve the nutritional offerings of meals and/or snacks. Update ABC Quality menu standards and guidance as needed to maintain high integrity and accountability.

• Conduct Health & Safety facility inspections (10-15 per year) for License Exempt programs mainly in the Upstate but potentially from across the state as needed. Oversee, centralize, and streamline the inspection process being conducted by the ABC Quality Health Education team.

• Provide technical assistance on nutrition, physical activity, and health policies, and practices through site visits, email, or phone calls with child care programs; serve as a resources to child care programs promoting environmental changes to improve health, answer questions, develop strategies, make connections to available local resources, and for other program-initiated needs.

• Coordinate with professionals within and outside the DSS agency serving child care programs to assure implementation of developmentally appropriate strategies and non-duplication of services; establish and support partnerships on implementing best practices.

• Develop and deliver state, regional, and local level training, focused on nutrition, to child care providers on ABC Quality best practices for nutrition and health policies.

• Obtain professional development as required.

Requirements

A Master's Degree in nutrition, health education, health promotion, and/or public health and three (3) years of community nutrition and/or health education experience with one (1) year as a supervisor.

Qualifications

Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) / Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES) eligible; a Registered Dietitian; four years (4) or more of Community Nutrition or Health Education experience, and two (2) or more years as supervisor over other heath educators or registered dietitians.

Additional Information

This application for employment with the SC Department of Social Services must be completed in its entirety.

A resume may be included; but shall not be substituted in lieu of the completion of this application in part or in whole.

"See Resume" is not acceptable information for the completion of any part of the requirements of this application.

If such is submitted, this employment application will be considered incomplete and may not be forwarded as eligible for consideration to hiring managers.

Must possess a valid driver's license and have access to and be able to operate a motor vehicle. Individuals must comply with necessary field work assignments.

If you certify, by completion and submission of this application, that you possess educational credentials that qualify you for the available DSS positions, you will be required to provide a certified official transcript, if you are selected for job offer.

The South Carolina Department of Social Services offers an exceptional benefits package that includes:

• Health, Dental, Vision, Long Term Disability, and Life Insurance for Employee, Spouse, and Children
• 15 days annual (vacation) leave per year
• 15 days sick leave per year
• 13 paid holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• State Retirement Plan and Deferred Compensation Programs

DIVISION: Economic Services / Greenville County