Public Health Intern

MUST BE WILLING TO PHYSICALLY WORK NEAR SUNRISE, FLORIDA, 33323

The Community Care Plan 2024 Summer Internship program will run for 8 to 10 weeks. There will be two start dates May 13th or June 3rd.

Position Summary:

Community Care Plan is seeking a current Public Health (or related) student who can help advance CCP's public health initiatives. The Public Health Intern will work closely with the Community Health Department's leadership to design and implement CCP's Community Health initiatives including maternal-child health, health and wellness promotion and community outreach. Under limited supervision, the intern will use a basic knowledge of public health principles to analyze, develop, implement, and promote new and creative strategies and solutions to address these public health issues and challenges.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conduct literature reviews on existing disease-prevention, community-based programs.

• Address Maternal-Child health outcome disparities, Diabetes Prevention and overall health and wellness by providing education, technical assistance, advocacy, public awareness, and research.

• May assist in designing, developing, and conducting targeted training initiatives.

• May collaborate with external organizations to develop action plans and goals to achieve specific objectives.

• Assist in the coordination and logistics of community outreach events.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to perform any other job-related duties assigned by their supervisor or management.

Skills and Abilities:

• Must be self-motivated

• Possess the ability to communicate effectively

• Excellent human relations skills

• Ability to work effectively in a team setting

• Ability to follow a project or assignment through a successful completion.

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as general business periodicals, professional journals, procedure manuals and/or governmental regulations.

• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.

• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form

Work Schedule:

As a continued effort to provide a safe and productive work environment, Community Care Plan is currently following a hybrid work schedule. Staff are able to work from home 3 days a week and will report to the office 2 days a week.

*The company reserves the right to change the work schedules based on the company needs.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those requirements employees must meet to perform the essential functions of this job with or without reasonable accommodation. While performing job functions, the employee is regularly required to sit, and stand, write, review and type reports, compile data, operate a pc, communicate, listen, and assess information.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, ability to adjust focus and ability to see color.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. The environment includes work inside/outside the office and travel to other offices, as well as domestic travel. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

We are an equal opportunity employer who recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique. We are committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Qualifications

• Current enrollment in an undergraduate or graduate degree program in Public Health or a related field from an accredited Florida college or university.

• Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Excel and internet software.