Reporting up to the Director, Health Promotion & Prevention , the Health Promotion Specialist is responsible for the management of projects under BC Children’s Hospital’s (BCCH) provincial mandate relating to the broad areas of knowledge exchange, information dissemination, and education for the public, service providers, and relevant policy/decision makers; and/or research, health system support, and academic development. The Health Promotion Specialist is responsible for project delivery as part of the Health Promotion and Health Literacy team , providing leadership for the collection, organization and provision of province wide evidence-based, user friendly parent, family, youth and child mental health information and resources. The Health Promotion Specialist works collaboratively with others including, staff in clinical/treatment programs, Knowledge and Research teams across the campus, and relevant community agencies to ensure that projects developed by the team meet current and emerging user needs and are in alignment with the Health Literacy strategy and treatment programs around the province as well as BCCH and PHSA goals and objectives. The Health Promotion Specialist promotes health literacy and public awareness/education about the physical and mental health and well-being of children youth and families’ across the province of BC.
