How do they match: Health Education Specialists

  • Health and Wellness Manager

  • Provide and manage health education programs that help individuals, families, and their communities maximize and maintain healthy lifestyles. Use data to identify community needs prior to planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating programs designed to encourage healthy lifestyles, policies, and environments. May link health systems, health providers, insurers, and patients to address individual and population health needs. May serve as resource to assist individuals, other health professionals, or the community, and may administer fiscal resources for health education programs.

  • Collaborate with health specialists and civic groups to determine community health needs and the availability of services and to develop goals for meeting needs.
  • Develop operational plans and policies necessary to achieve health education objectives and services.
  • Supervise professional and technical staff in implementing health programs, objectives, and goals.

  • Assess individual or community needs for educational or social services.
  • Maintain social services program records.
  • Present social services program information to the public.
  • Supervise workers providing client or patient services.
  • Train staff members in social services skills.