Your Opportunity:

This position is part of the Addiction Prevention Unit (APU) within Provincial Addiction & Mental Health (PAMH) Programs and Services. The HPFII position applies an addiction and mental health (AMH) approach to delay first use, prevent problematic substance use and promote wellbeing. Work will span an array of duties depending on what is required to support both provincial APU initiatives and AMH zone programming. Operational activities will align with PAMH strategic direction and business priorities. Reporting to the PAMH Manager of the Addiction Prevention Unit (APU) the HPFII works to promote positive environments and individual strengths that contribute to personal health, wellness, and increased recovery capital. The HPFII will be involved in creating and supporting initiatives, training, and collaborating on effective AMH prevention and health promotion strategies to encourage individuals, families, and communities to adopt health promoting behaviors that support wellbeing across the lifespan. Incumbents require the ability to provide content knowledge about substances, substance use prevention and mental health promotion to support provincial and zone initiatives. This position requires advanced communication, facilitation, and negotiation skills. The incumbent must also synthesize and present complex information for a variety of purposes and audiences.

Description:

As a Health Promotion Facilitator II, you will lead and coordinate health promotion, disease and injury prevention initiatives and programs using a population health promotion approach. You will identify behavioural, social, political, economic, environmental and organizational factors that promote or compromise health and recommend evidence-informed strategies to address identified priorities. You will conduct situational analyses, literature reviews, environmental scans and focus groups to make recommendations as part of an integrated program planning and evaluation process. You will manage projects using standardized tools and techniques that are conducive or aligned with health promotion, disease and injury prevention practices. You will collaborate with key internal and external key stakeholders in project or program planning, development, implementation, evaluation and improvement. You will facilitate community and staff engagement and build community and staff capacity around population health promotion priorities. You will evaluate the effectiveness of existing health promotion and disease prevention strategies and make recommendations.