Michigan Public Health Institute (MPHI) Hiring for Community Health Consultant – CCFH at Okemos, MI  Full Time

Title: Community Health Consultant – CCFH

$24.03 – $28.85 / Posted thru: 5-7-23

Work location: Remote – Must be a Michigan Resident

Purpose:The individual in this position works in the Center for Child and Family Heath (CCFH) to provide consultation, technical assistance, and data collection support to county-level, multi-disciplinary teams participating in the Michigan Child Death Review (CDR) Program and the Overdose Fatality Review (OFR) Program. This position will support other local, state, and national fatality review efforts to inform policy and practice changes and prevent future fatalities.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Partner Engagement and Support

• Completetasks related to maintaining a highly responsive, community-oriented program (e.g., timely responses, assist county fatality team coordinators in task completion, maintain regular contacts with county team partners).
• Identify, build, and maintain relationships with community members and organizations to improve and advocate for community health and resilience needs.
• Ensure that the diversity, of individuals and populations, is addressed in policies, programs, and services that affect the health of a community.
• Facilitate collaboration and fosters communication amongst partners to improve health in a community (e.g., coalition building).
• Identify and assist in the development of resources for local communities to implement overdose prevention, health promotion, and safety programs.

Data Entry and Management Responsibilities

• Maintain records and prepare reports and correspondence related to the work.
• Per established practice and standards of promptness, write and edit detailed notes at all assigned fatality case review meetings.
• Obtain records necessary to facilitate a thorough case review, create meeting agendas, engaging required team members, and facilitating meetings.
• Per established practice and standards of promptness, enter case review data into an online database.
• In collaboration with the data quality assurance team, complete data quality assurance processes.
• Assist Project Coordinator with the creation and dissemination of program reports and briefs.

Technical Assistance Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to multi-disciplinary, county-level CDR and OFR teams across the state.
• Assist county-level review teams in conducting effective review meetings.
• Partner with county-level review teams to ensure a health equity lens is applied to the review process.
• Identify how the social determinants of health and systems-level issues impacted individuals and families.
• Develop findings and recommendations to prevent future fatalities.
• Solicit feedback from county-level fatality review teams around the data collection system, case selection, team member engagement, and protocols.
• Provide feedback with other fatality review teams and state-level partners.
• Assist in compiling best practices related to the prevention of child fatalities and the prevention of both intentional and unintentional overdose fatalities.
• Compile and disseminate materials to fatality review teams to increase awareness of the impact of social determinants of health, including Economic Stability, Education Access and Quality, Health Care Access and Quality, Neighborhood and Built Environment, and Social and Community Context, on well-being.
• Assist with the development of training materials and resources for county-level fatality review teams.
• Orient local law enforcement agencies, death scene investigators, and medical examiner offices to state standardized death investigation protocols; encourage their usage.

Other Responsibilities

• Identify and prioritize project tasks with the Project Coordinator.
• Monitor task status and participate in proactive planning to maintain project timelines and meet established deadlines.
• Work in collaboration with project evaluation team.
• Assist with the creation and implementation of evaluation activities.
• Remain current on literature in key areas, to be identified in collaboration with Program Director and Project Coordinator.
• Travel as needed, both in- and out-of-state.
• MPHI employees are expected to maintain a positive, strong, credible, and professional interpersonal relationship with all parties relevant to MPHI projects and always represent the best interests of MPHI.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications/Requirements:

Education:Bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline required. A Master’s degree in public health, social work, criminal justice, or other relevant discipline highly preferred.

Experience:Four to five years‘ experience in child welfare, criminal justice, direct service organization, or public health required.

Important Skills and Characteristics:

• Ability to identify relationships that affect health in a community (e.g., relationships among health departments, law enforcement, child welfare, community-based agencies, hospitals, health centers primary care providers).
• Working knowledge of facilitation of multi-disciplinary teams around community health issues required.
• Knowledge of community organization as related to public health programs.
• Demonstrated ability to work at the community level with diverse groups of people around sensitive topics.
• Knowledge related to human service systems, child welfare, child health/safety, substance use disorder, and/or behavioral health preferred.
• Knowledge of or interest in applying health equity concepts to public health practice.
• Proficiency with standard computer programs (e.g., Microsoft Office).
• Proven experience entering confidential data accurately and completely into an electronic database required.
• Excellent organizational and written and oral communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to be self–motivated and a team player.

WorkEnvironment and Physical Requirements: Currently, this position will be working from a home office, with ability to attend in-person meetings as needed. The position may require moderate physical effort including working with PCs 25% to 75% of the time. Requires valid vehicle operator’s license and travel.

Responsibility for the Work of Others:No assigned responsibility.

Impact on Project, Services, and Operations:This position is integral to supporting and strengthening the Michigan Child Death Review Program and the Overdose Fatality Review Program as well as maintaining MPHI’s role as a leader in helping communities create safe and healthy environments for Michigan’s citizens.

Required Communication:

Contact Person/Group Frequency Purpose

CDR/OFR Project Coordinator Weekly Coordination and task assignment

CCFH Program Director Weekly Consultation and support

CCFH Staff Team Daily Coordination and task assignment

County Fatality Review Teams Weekly Provide TA/resources, attend meetings

State and National Partners As needed Represent Michigan CDR or OFR

“For the purposes of employment standards, this classification is “Non-Exempt“ from overtime under the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.”