About this role
The Tooele County Health Department is a family-friendly organization dedicated to providing excellent benefits and career growth opportunities where everyone can reach their full potential. We are seeking a motivated Prevention Specialist to help promote healthy, substance-free lifestyles in Wendover, Utah. This position delivers evidence-based education to youth, families, and community members through group sessions, presentations, workshops, and outreach efforts that align with coalition goals and objectives. Prevention Specialists are energetic self-starters who thrive both independently and in team settings, collaborating effectively with community partners, co-workers, and stakeholders while managing multiple priorities with professionalism and flexibility.
SUPERVISION RECEIVED
Works under the general supervision of the Prevention Specialist Coordinator
SUPERVISION EXERCISED
None
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Coordinate promoting healthy, substance-free lifestyles in partnership with the Wendover Prevention Group.
- Develop and implement Strategic Action Plans
- Grant development, submission, and management.
- Collect and disseminate data regarding the strategies implemented.
- Facilitate grant and stakeholder reporting.
- Provide technical assistance to local/regional coalitions and partnerships that focus on the current risk factors in the community that lead to serious mental health disturbances and/or suicide.
- Facilitate multiple evidence-based prevention courses to the community.
- Oversee high-fidelity implementation of all prevention interventions in the assigned community.
- Work effectively with people from a variety of social, ethnic, economic, educational, and professional backgrounds.
- Ability to attend trainings in and out of the state.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum:
- Graduation from a college or university with a bachelor's degree in public health, Health Education and Promotion, Social Work, or a closely related field.
AND
- Two years of professional prevention services experience.
- Experience facilitating/assisting coalition work in aligning their efforts with state and local prevention strategies and community support initiatives.
- Experience with community programs. Teaching/Presenting/Public speaking
Preferred:
- Spanish language proficiency
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
Ability to lift up to 25 pounds frequently. Even though the weight lifted may only be a negligible amount, a job is in this category may require walking or standing to a significant degree.
**Tooele County is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, or any other protected class.**