PUBLIC HEALTH REGIONAL ASSESSMENT & PLANNING COORDINATOR- 05272025- 68178

Job Information

LOCATION OF (1) POSITION(S) TO BE FILLED: DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, LOCAL HEALTH DIVISION, WASHINGTON COUNTY

This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

Qualifications

Overview

Responsibilities

1. Performs research for grant opportunities and writes grants as directed for our organization or partnering agencies.
2. Becomes a certified Baldrige examiner and facilitates the Baldrige application process, performance management and Lean thinking events to address weaknesses both locally and regionally.
3. Works with the management team to establish goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound for each county.
4. Oversees the annual health department assessment process by making suggestions for improvement and tracking the progress of the counties' strategic plans quarterly.
5. Coordinates the staff and patient satisfaction survey processes. Distributes surveys, analyzes the results, presents results to staff and assists management in developing action plans to address areas in need and mitigating potential barriers to success. Assists local and regional management in tracking the progress of these action plans and in identifying by collaborating with appropriate staff and partners.

1. Identifies the educational needs of staff, develops formal educational or training programs or classes and trains or instructs others.
2. Conducts agency-specific and specialized training for agency employees to comply with departmental, state and federal laws, rules, regulations, guidelines, processes and procedures, facilitating change and improvement initiatives.
3. Completes additional training in performance management concepts in order to advise management in regards to program analysis and overall program effectiveness as well as training to develop and enhance leadership.
4. Coordinates and presents the introduction to public health portion of new employee orientation.
5. Trains members of the health council and teaches council members how to diagnose community problems, including strategic planning processes and assessment.

1. Investigates no-show rates within the department and outside the organization to determine more efficient ways to decrease the probability of no-shows.
2. Develops, designs and creates innovative strategies, applications, ideas and relationships or products that better serve our populations.
3. Examines all aspects of local health department operations and using Lean, 5-S and other management tools to streamline procedures and protocols.
4. Acts as a Special Project Coordinator for all manner of public health programs and initiatives in the public health region.

1. Examines a variety of data, including financial, demographic, and productivity, to maximize efficiency.
2. Analyzes patient and provider data for the purpose of assuring both appropriate quantitative and qualitative public health service.
3. Analyzes county health data including measures which contribute to county health rankings and looks for viable opportunities for improvement and presents those to local health councils.

1. Uses computer systems to enter data, utilize email and office productivity tools.
2. Uses Survey Gizmo in the creation and administration of surveys and the data manipulation of the results.
3. Utilizes spreadsheets, charts and graphs to create new and better ways of examining all productivity measures currently used in the region.

1. Develops additional ways to examine data sets to allow various comparisons to be made and tracked over time.
2. Compiles, codes, categorizes, calculates, tabulates or verifies information or data from local health department productivity measures.
3. Interprets Relative Value Units, Encounters, WIC participation, EPSDT's, Family Planning participation and other reports.

1. Trains in Quality Improvement standards, even assisting the QI Director on occasional audits, and develops new and innovative means of measuring progress and achieving higher standards.
2. Works with QI Director to ensure compliance with new standards once released by developing both training and other interpretive materials for use in local clinics.
3. Assesses facility needs based on regulations for providing a hygienic, safe work environment; (e.g., TOSHA, OSHA, Division of Radiological Health) and assists County Health Department Directors in assuring compliance.

1. Communicates and interprets policy and procedures to staff and stakeholders.
2. Creates easy to follow explanations of all productivity measures used on a regular basis.

1. Performs an overall assessment of a public health region by studying all regional reports, county assessments, community assessments, QI Audits and other resources to determine strengths and weaknesses of regional operations as a whole and determining the impact on population health.
2. Assess the strengths and weaknesses of various programs and activities and ascertain their potential impact on population health.

1. Contributes meaningfully to regional management meetings bringing the ability to analyze data together with knowledge of public health functions and programs.
2. Combines academic knowledge of population based public health with hands on public health experience to appropriately assess the strengths and weaknesses of various programs and activities and make suggested changes that positively impact both.

Competencies (KSA's)

1. Ethics and Values
2. Career Ambition
3. Process Management
4. Decision Quality
5. Problem Solving
6. Technical Learning
7. Presentation Skills
8. Planning
9. Organizing

1. Administration and Management
2. Customer and Personal Service
3. Education and Training
4. Economics and Accounting

1. Time Management
2. Complex Problem Solving
3. Active Learning
4. Active Listening
5. Critical Thinking
6. Judgment and Decision Making
7. Speaking
8. Systems Analysis
9. Systems Evaluation

1. Written Expression
2. Deductive Reasoning
3. Oral Comprehension
4. Originality
5. Problem Sensitivity
6. Written Comprehension
7. Inductive Reasoning
8. Oral Expression
9. Mathematical Reasoning
10. Selective Reasoning

Tools & Equipment

1. Personal Computer
2. Telephone
3. Fax Machine
4. Printer
5. IPhone
6. IPad
7. Scanner
8. Calculator

TN Driver Standards

State of Tennessee positions that may involve driving responsibilities require candidates to meet the following minimum driver qualifications:

• A valid driver's license
• For the past five years, the candidate's driver record must not have record of the following violations: driving under the influence (DUI), reckless driving, license suspension for moving violations, more than 4 moving violations.

Please include your Driver's License Information under the Licenses and Certifications section of your application.

**Agencies may allow an exception based on other factors.