"Health Educator (RN), Population Health"

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Health Educator (RN), Population Health

Position Information

Position Title: Health Educator (RN), Population Health
Department: Medicine
Posting Link: https://www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/58583
Job Type: Full-Time

Posting Detail Information

Position Summary
The Division of Population Health, Department of Medicine within the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences seeks a Health Educator. In this role as a Health Educator, you will deliver protocol driven health education interventions to study participants within the Division of Population Health via face-to-face, telephone, or videoconferencing technology as appropriate. The ideal candidate will practice strategic thinking, attention to detail, be dependable, enjoy working in a highly collaborative setting, and remain flexible in a fast-paced environment.

Primary Functions:

• Protocol-driven health education and participant support tasks
  • Delivering protocol driven health education interventions to study participants.
  • Scheduling and coordinating sessions, attend and participate in supervision sessions, record sessions as directed, and perform research health educator data collection during initial visit and follow-up sessions.
  • Organizing and reminding study participants of upcoming appointments.
  • Training study participants on key elements of study protocol.
• Clinical research support tasks
  • Collecting blood and other biological specimen samples.
  • Measuring and recording vital signs and anthropometric measures.
  • Reviewing, calibrating, and performing quality control assessments of lab equipment.
  • Serving as a liaison with lab staff to triage and interpret results.
• Research coordination and community engagement tasks
  • Assisting with multiple research grants as needed with tasks to support PI in writing and presenting research reports and research protocols.
  • Performing duties needed including case management and decision-making and working collaboratively with other center personnel to achieve goals of research studies.
  • Serving as liaison to various team members to ensure smooth running of research projects.
  • Providing health education to community sites, establish and nurture community partnerships, work with designated community sites to advance research, education, and training mission of the center.

Knowledge - Skills - Abilities

• Knowledge of biology, clinical judgement, documentation, records management, and cultural awareness.
• Building trust, collaboration, decision-making skills, communication, critical thinking, and influencing skills.
• Customer focus, interpersonal, empathy, listening, and patience.

Work Hours: Full-time role with expectations for coverage during core business hours and flexibility required as necessary to accommodate business needs.

As an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer, the Research Foundation will not discriminate in its employment practices due to an applicant’s race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin and veteran or disability status.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and RN License

Salary Range
$60,000 - $65,000

Contact Information

Contact's Name: Ariel Burden
Contact's Title: Staff Assistant
Contact's Email: aeburden@buffalo.edu
Contact's Phone: 716-859-4848