Position Purpose

To improve the access and or linkages with medical, oral and behavioral health care services in Spokane County centering on health equity. To participate actively in local, regional and state level collaborative efforts regarding medical, oral and behavioral systems planning to improve health care quality and effectiveness, reduce health care costs and improve population health.

Responsibilities

Provide accurate, timely, and locally relevant data

• Collaborate with the Data Center to produce and share periodic/routine reports of health care access and health equity.
• Inform decision makers of potential and actual impacts to the health of the public based on data and published reports.
• Provide the public, regulated facilities, and stakeholder organizations with effective and timely communication recommendations for access to medical, oral, and behavioral health care and ensuring public safety.
• Collaborate with the Data Center to develop and fulfill future data needs using multiple methods and sources for data collection and analysis, and presentation using evolving technology with near real-time data displayed using visualization tools and GIS.

Partnership, community engagement, and planning

• Identify, develop, engage and maintain local strategic partnerships with health and behavioral health systems, community groups, social services, criminal justice, education system and others to increase access to services of public health importance.
• Identify evidence-based interventions and promising practices for population health, especially those that are upstream and preventative. Share information with partners and the public on these interventions.
• Collaborate with partners on developing goals, objectives and activities to implement plans.
• Use data and evidence-based practices to facilitate development of public health policy, systems, and environmental change initiatives for medical, oral and behavioral health care and public safety, emphasizing those designed to promote health equity.
• Continuously work with local and state partners to improve health care quality and effectiveness, reduce health care costs and improve population health.
• Collaborate with partners in finding funding for these interventions.
• Provide subject matter expertise to inform policy, systems and environmental change, program design, and communications to decision makers, providers, the public and stakeholders about relevant public health risks. This includes building understanding of social determinants of health, risk and protective factors and the value of prevention and early upstream intervention to improve population health and reduce costs.

Access to clinical services of public health importance

• Collaborate with SRHD programs and local, state and national health care providers and groups, to develop and implement prioritized plans for assuring access to specific clinical services of public health importance, such as family planning, key services for pregnant women and their infants (e.g. maternity support and Women, Infants, and Children [WIC]) and sexually transmitted disease (STD) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) testing and treatment; appropriate follow-up for positive newborn screening test (e.g. referrals to the Children with Special Health Care Needs [CSHCN] program) and positive blood lead levels.
• Seek resources and advocate for high priority policy initiatives to improve access.
• Evaluate progress on health care quality and effectiveness, reduction of health care costs and improving population health at the state and local level every three to five years as part of community health assessment and community health improvement plan.
• Use findings to improve intervention strategies with partners.
• Monitor literature for measures of health care quality and effectiveness, reduction of health care costs and improving population health.

Healthy Living Team and Agency

• Participate in Healthy Living team meetings, sharing, planning, education, and evaluation.
• Report annually to team on work accomplished according to work plans.
• Develop annual training plan to improve knowledge and skills.
• Update and apply skills and knowledge about technology security and improve on agency software.
• May complete other duties and special projects as assigned.
• Comply with HIPAA confidentiality requirements.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in health administration, public health, community health, psychology, sociology, social work, or closely related field.
• Three years of relevant experience with at least 1 year working with groups of health care professionals to make community changes.
• An equivalent combination of education, experience and certification may be considered provided the individual’s background demonstrates the knowledge, skills and abilities required for the position.

Upon hire, benefits offered include:

• Full wage scale for the position is $30.33 to $38.72 hourly plus longevity.
• Longevity Pay at 2.5% (10, 15 and 20 years for represented employees).
• Remote hybrid work available up to two days a week on approved positions.
• Full-time workweek at 37.5 hours.
• Flexible work schedules
• 13 Paid Holidays plus 1 personal day.
• Paid Vacation (7.5 hours per month).
• Paid Sick Leave (7.5 hours per month).
• Washington State Public Employee’s Retirement Program (PERS2 or PERS3).
• Washington State Deferred Compensation Program (DCP).
• Medical/Vision with multiple plan options (Employee, Spouse, and Child(ren)).
• Dental (Employee, Spouse, and Child(ren)).
• Employer Paid Basic Life and AD&D (determined by annual earnings up to $200,000) and long-term disability.
• Supplemental Life Insurance for Employee, Spouse, and/or Children (voluntary).
• Flexible Spending Accounts (medical and dependent care).
• Health Savings Accounts (with participating medical plans).
• SmartHealth annual wellness incentives ($125 discount off the annual deductible).
• Tuition Reimbursement (up to $3,000).
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.
• Employee Assistance Program (employee and family with up to 4 sessions per person, per situation, per year).
• Pet Insurance (voluntary).
• Identity Theft Protection (voluntary).
• Accident, Critical Illness, and/or Hospital Indemnity Insurance (voluntary).