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Washington State University Health Equity Lead Clinic Organizer, Everett in Everett, Washington
Health Equity Lead Clinic Organizer, Everett
Available Title(s):
1448-YN_ADMINPRO - Extension Coordinator Senior
Business Title:
Health Equity Lead Clinic Organizer, Everett
Employee Type:
Admin. Professional
Time Type:
Full time
Position Term:
12 Month
Position Details:
Summary of Duties:
The Health Equity Lead Clinic Organizer will lead local clinics through ongoing development of clinic organizing programs. This position will be based in Everett, WA at the Internal Medicine Outpatient Clinic located at Providence Regional Medical Center.
The lead organizer provides specialized knowledge and experience to the clinic-based community organizing initiative that seeks to identify common health and social issues impacting patients, develop patient and staff leaders capable of leading change, and create patient-clinic-community collaborations (or communities of solution) to address patient-identified issues. Rather than focusing solely on the individual patient as the unit of intervention, the program extends towards the community as the unit of change, diagnosing community-wide barriers/issues (e.g., racism, sexism, trans-/homo-phobia, housing instability, food insecurity) rather than illness alone, and addressing them with community-powered solutions and leadership development for civic engagement.
The Health Equity Lead Clinic Organizer will be a staff member of the WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine directly supervised by the Director of Community Health Equity. The lead organizer will work with the Director of Community Health Equity to establish and supervise a cohort of clinic organizers in Washington state and affiliated external partners.
Key responsibilities will include: development and leadership for the clinic organizing cohort; developing systems and services that encourage patient engagement; developing and delivering curriculum involving the impacts of social determinants of health, relational leadership, and community organizing on health equity to build patient/community capacity for upstream change; establishing a strong network of engaged patients and community partners; and regularly convening clinic staff, patients, and community partners to identify potential solutions to patients' identified health and social needs.
Essential Job Functions:
40% Patient Engagement
25% Program/Curriculum Development
20% Community Engagement
10% Staff/Care Team Meetings and Development
5% Other
Required Qualifications:
A Bachelor's degree in a relevant extension program discipline and three (3) years of related program experience. A Masters degree in a related field may be substituted for up to one year of the required experience. Any combination of relevant education and experience may be substituted for the educational requirement on a year-for-year basis.
Additional Requirements:
• Demonstrated experience developing, facilitating and/or coordinating training or educational activities
• Demonstrated experience and/or understanding of and commitment to health equity, racial, gender, and economic justice.
• Demonstrated commitment to health equity, as well as racial, gender, and economic justice.
• Demonstrated experience and/or understanding of the social determinants of health and structural determinants of equity across the