Prevention Specialist - Social Work, OT, Nursing, Psychotherapist - York Region

Prevention Specialist
- Social Work, OT, Nursing, Psychotherapist
- York Region

• Contract
• FTE: 1.0 FTE
• Union Status: NON UNION
• Shift Schedule (Hours are subject to change based on operational needs):
  Mon-Fri – 7.5 hour day shifts
• Employment Status:
  Temporary Full-time
• Department: OT Eating Disorders
• Length of temporary contract:
  Approx. 18 months
• Site
  
  Location:
  
  Off-Site

Halton Healthcare’s vision of Exemplary patient experiences, always, goes beyond just the patient experience; it has shaped our entire culture and remains at the core of every interaction in our organization, from our patients & families to our staff, physicians and volunteers. We believe in exemplary PEOPLE experiences always!

At Halton Healthcare you will thrive in a healthcare culture and environment that embraces inclusion, diversity and belonging with ‘exemplary patient care, always’ at the heart of everything we do.

We empower our people to be the very best they can be so they can make a difference for our patients and the communities we serve.

Halton Healthcare takes great pride in providing quality, compassionate healthcare services to our rapidly growing communities. As a progressive and vibrant healthcare organization, we are committed to being an innovative center of excellence in community hospital care.

The responsibilities of the Eating Disorder Prevention Specialist include: facilitating/performing health promotion and wellness education planning and implementation activities; participating in skills and capacity building activities; participating in research and evaluation activities; providing consumer-oriented eating disorder information and reference material within the community using print and electronic resources; participating in academic forums.

• Designs, conducts and updates a community assessment to determine population eating disorder educational needs.
• Identifies and develops eating disorder wellness and education initiatives based on needs of particular populations.
• Identifies opportunities to develop collaborative partnerships and linkages with a diverse array of stakeholders and sector champions in the community, clinical, health administration, partner organizations and government divisions
• Works collaboratively with a diverse array of stakeholders and sector champions in the community, clinical, health administration, partner organizations and government divisions to organize and implement health service, promotion, education and community outreach events that respond to the eating disorder needs and interests of the community.
• Participates in community networks that address specific community eating disorder health issues
• Assists community resources in accessing health related services in the community.
• Advocates on behalf of community resources to access opportunities/resources for capacities and skills related to eating disorders. Participates in the identification and development of health events/forums/opportunities that foster shared learning and capacity building.
• Implements a variety of health promotion strategies including health education, social marketing, population health and community development in order to foster individual self-awareness, improve health decision making and promote access to resources necessary for building a strong eating disorder promotion, prevention and early intervention model.
• Provides eating disorder promotion strategies with cultural competence and ethno cultural sensitivity.
• Conducts and/or arranges in-service presentations for Community Program staff to keep them informed of current trends in eating disorder education and the work of other community agencies.
• Recommends (and assists as necessary in the acquisition of) accurate, reliable, current, and appropriate eating disorder promotion, prevention and early intervention educational material directed to support adult influencers, youth and children.
• Provides quick reference and assistance locating appropriate referrals for adult influencers, youth and children.
• Presents at health conferences, seminars and workshop
• Seeks out opportunities to publish research findings
• Precepts students from variety of community health programs.
• Must…