Health Educator

We are Vista Global Solutions, LLC (VGS), a government consulting and contracting firm specializing in health solutions across the nation. We are currently seeking a Health Educator to assist with a new mission in San Diego, CA. This position is contingent upon contract award.

What You'll Do:

Core Duties for Mind Body Medicine Health Educator

• The contractor will be the primary coordinator and education consultant and will assist the Head of MBM on the planning, designing, development, implementation, evaluation and revision of diverse MBM programs and various administrative support services.
• The contractor will be the education consultant to staff members in the inpatient and ambulatory care areas, and to the local military Commands and the surrounding military fleet.
• Coordinate daily operations and administrative activities of the Mind Body Medicine programs offered by the Directorate of Public Health.
• Coordinate Health Education activities with heads of departments and multi-disciplinary educators involved in patient and staff education.
• Conduct curriculum planning, design, development, evaluation and revision of education programs for specific populations.
• Support and participate in performance improvement processes by ensuring that educators presenting any of the programs are oriented to course content to include lesion topic guides and associated training materials. Evaluate instructor effectiveness and provide training to enhance skills.
• Keep current on educational principles, strategies, methods, teaching skills, instructional aides, computer-assisted instruction, program evaluations and other topics to improve quality of education.
• Implement and conduct program evaluations for the multi-disciplinary teams.
• Review educational curricula periodically to ensure that Mind Body Medicine programs are valid, reliable, current and directly related to learning objectives.
• Review and evaluate educational/marketing materials for updates, relevance, and appropriateness to subject matter and target groups.
• Provide primary, secondary and tertiary levels of intervention in the Mind Body Medicine arena including individual consultations.
• Develop, update and promote "Train the Trainer" programs for professional personnel to enable them to serve as primary instructors for individual patients.
• Coordinate special projects such as education-focused workshops, health fairs, informative displays and programs for special groups.
• Advise on record keeping and coordinating for the purchasing, production and distribution of educational pamphlets, audio-visual materials, and other necessary supplies based upon Command and Department priorities.
• Maintain professional standards, effectiveness and quality of education and care through program reviews, research, evaluation, assessments, and revisions, if necessary.
• Prepare annual Mind Body Medicine schedules for patient classes and health care provider in-service education.
• Conduct surveys and assessments to identify patients' needs and/or major concerns and solutions.
• Ensure educational program workload is captured effectively. Maintain and compile these data as a source of future educational projects, studies and research.
• Serves as marketing coordinator for assigned educational programs to staff and patients within the hospital, Branch Medical Clinics and Tricare Outpatient Clinics (TOCs).
• Serve as liaison between the command and community resources for patient education. Network with the military community, community health agencies, civilian hospitals, support groups and educational institutions.
• The Head, Mind Body Medicine and/or Director for Public Health may determine that other tasks associated within this scope of work may be required under this delivery order. In such cases, the process outlined under Administration shall be followed.

What You Bring:

Minimum Qualifications for Mind Body Medicine Health Educator

Degree: Bachelors

Education: Successful completion of one of the following:

• Education, Social Work, Behavioral Sciences, Exercise Sciences, Nursing, Healthcare or Public Health
• Familiarity with at least one self-care, mind body medicine modality (i.e. meditation, yoga, qigong, tai chi, etc....)
• Professional knowledge and skills in the application of a wide range of public health principles, trends, learning theories, practices, procedures, and techniques to be able to assess, develop and perform highly specialized and current methods of health teaching.
• Knowledge of the research process through extended study, experience and ability to conduct research.
• Knowledge of quality assessment and principles to monitor established standards of education and clinical practice for the improvement of health education services.
• Demonstrates competency in leadership skills.

What We Offer:

VGS offers a competitive benefits package to include: paid holidays, paid time off including sick and vacation leave, medical, dental and vision insurance, flexible spending accounts, short and long term disability, company paid life insurance, 401(k) with a company match and discretionary profit sharing and tuition reimbursement