Responsible for implementing wellness and prevention activities and services reflective of the needs and requests of the Kodiak and village communities, KANA Board, Executive Leadership, and other key partners. Implements activities and services in accordance with grant, policy, regulatory, and accreditation requirements.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Under the direct supervision of the Wellness & Prevention Supervisor, job incumbent may be assigned from the following representative duties:
- Supports the organization’s mission and goals, quality standards, and patient-centered medical home philosophy. Embraces KANA’s culture of serving the whole person through our provision of services. Incorporates KANA’s core values of Courtesy, Caring, Respect, Sharing, and Pride in all activities and decisions.
- Upholds KANA’s Code of Ethics by conducting professional activities with honesty, integrity, respect, fairness, and good faith in a manner that reflects positively upon the organization.
- Plans, organizes, promotes, and hosts wellness and prevention education and promotion events in the KANA service region; facilitates, leads, and instructs community-based prevention groups, events, discussions, and trainings to raise awareness about health topics that impact youth, adults, and special populations.
- Acquires and maintains up to date knowledge and information needed to function in a community education and outreach role on a variety of health-related matters, including: aspects of substance use, suicide, and mental health; building resiliency and protective factors; the role of culture, social pressures, technology, and other relevant factors on health and well-being; and other topics as relevant and appropriate.
- Integrates appropriate cultural activities/approaches into practice; establish cultural approaches as a norm within the Wellness & Prevention Specialist role; demonstrate cultural humility.
- Offers village, school, or home-based services; offers services targeting special populations and topics; completes documentation in a timely manner in order to maintain program compliance within the guidelines established by Kodiak Area Native Association, State of Alaska, Medicaid and other regulatory agencies
- Partners with fellow staff members throughout the Behavioral Health Department to integrate initiatives and reduce duplicative efforts; identifies a multidisciplinary approach to meeting goals that includes other workers within the department.
- Works closely with Communications department to design program materials to advertise activities through external and internal communication channels. These include press releases, community announcements, online events, and news/blog articles; event graphics and advertisements, media posts, newspaper copy, hashtags, statistics; and campaign toolkits.
- Participates in the Health Division’s village health fair schedule; develop relationships with village community members; offers resources and information regarding KANA Health services with particular focus on Wellness & Prevention materials.
- Upon request, travels to villages to offer support following an adverse event; this may include hosting a talking circle, offering an educational presentation, and/or making individual contacts.
- Completes trainings, obtains certifications, and retains competencies to support delivery of objectives; attends in-person, telephonic and web-based meetings and conferences as required by current and prospective funders; participates in grant technical training as assigned and keeps abreast of changing grant standards and proposal guidelines.
- Actively participates in individual supervision, team and departmental meetings; maintains positive and helpful relationships with co-workers and external partners.
- Other duties as assigned.
Supervisory Responsibilities This job has no supervisory responsibilities.
Requirements
High school diploma or equivalent and two years of experience with public speaking, education/training facilitation, event planning or other relevant community outreach skills required. Associates degree preferred. Additional experience with program management, grant writing, clerical /administrative work and/or experience working with youth preferred.
