Head Start Health Consultant

Insurance: Your choice of several medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans To learn more, visit: https://www.lacoe.edu

Online applications must be submitted by: 4/3/2025 5:00 P.M. (Pacific)

Retirement: PERS Defined Benefit Plan Paid Time Off: 24 vacation, 15 holidays, and 12 illness days.

Under general direction, provides technical expertise and consulting to the LACOE Head Start and Early Learning Division and its delegate agencies in essential areas of development and learning used by delegate agencies to establish school readiness goals for children, monitor children's progress, align curricula, and conduct program planning; provides support in the content, structure, and delivery of health services for children and families enrolled in the Early Head Start, Head Start, or State Preschool programs; in coordination with the Head Start Delegate Liaison Team Leader, provides technical direction in the establishment of new health programs, monitoring, redesigning, and updating of established programs, and staff development. 

The Well Qualified Candidate Will Possess the Following

Knowledge:

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• Principles and techniques of health consulting
• Health curricula and trends
• Methods in assessing and evaluating the quality and delivery of health services
• Human development including prenatal, infant, toddler, preschool, and maternal health
• Ethics in relation to child and family health
• Staff development and in-service methods and techniques
• Direct services methods
• Assessment techniques used to consult with assigned agencies on identifying strengths of children and families
• Community resources including family support services, emergency and crisis services, and child protective services
• Techniques for counseling parents and children in health service areas
• Head Start Performance Standards and related federal legislation
• Head Start Act
• Community Care Licensing (Title 22) regulations
• Facility health and safety practices
  
  

Competencies:

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• Analyzing & Interpreting Data – Drawing meaning and conclusions from quantitative or qualitative data
• Critical Thinking – Analytically and logically evaluating information, propositions, and claims
• Fact Finding – Obtaining facts and data pertaining to an issue or question
• Legal & Regulatory Navigation – Understanding, interpreting, and ensuring compliance with laws and regulations
• Professional & Technical Expertise – Applying technical subject matter to the job
• Using Technology – Working with electronic hardware and software applications
• Action & Results Focus – Initiating tasks and focusing on accomplishment
• Oral Communication – Engaging effectively in dialogue
• Writing – Communicating effectively in writing
• Customer Focus – Attending to the needs and expectation of customers
• Professional Impact – Presenting self as a positive representative of the organization
• Relationship Building – Establishing rapport and maintaining mutually productive relationships
• Developing Others – Supporting others in stretching and expanding their capabilities
• Teamwork – Collaborating with others to achieve shared goals
• Project Management – Planning and tracking projects to ensure they are on-time, on-budget, and achieve their objectives
• Cultural Proficiency – Modeling communication and interaction that respect and include all individuals and their languages, abilities, religions and cultures
  
  

Required Education and Experience

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Education: A master's degree in nursing, nurse science, health education, maternal and child health, public health administration, or a field closely related to the job requirements of this classification, from an institution of higher learning accredited by a regional accrediting organization recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.  Foreign degrees and credit units require translation and equivalency established by an agency recognized by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing.

Experience: Three years of experience administering or coordinating child and family health services in a multi-disciplinary setting, including one year of experience in administering or coordinating health services to children under 10 years old.

Additional Requirements: A Physician's Assistant, Registered Nurse, or Nurse Practitioner license is desired.  A valid California driver's license and the availability of private transportation or the ability to obtain transportation between job sites is required.

Hybrid remote schedules may be available. To ensure the health and safety of its staff, LACOE may require employees to provide evidence of full vaccination against COVID-19. 

Selection Process

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Candidates who meet the minimum requirements above will be invited to participate in an examination that may consist of a Technical Project and a Structured Interview.

Contact

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Additional Information

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Minimum qualifications must be met by the close of filing date. For more information, please go to https://lacoe.edu/jobs/hr/classified.  For additional information on our testing procedures, please visit Applicant Resources on our website. Selection and promotion are based on a competitive examination process. Candidates who pass all exam parts are ranked according to overall exam score and placed on an eligibility (hiring) list. Vacant positions are filled from the top three ranks. Eligibility lasts for 12 months; however, additional recruitment may occur under a separate bulletin with additional candidates being merged onto the eligibility list. Some positions that involve public contact may require bilingual proficiency for which selective certification may apply (Education Code 45277.5). In addition, the eligibility list resulting from this examination may be used to fill vacancies in related job classifications for which no eligibility list exists (Education Code 45272). Veterans' Credit may be awarded for entry jobs.

Reasonable accommodations in completing an application, testing, and employment are available to individuals with disabilities. If you would like to request an accommodation, please call 562.803.8360 as early as possible.

Salary : $114,240 - $141,516