Strategic Plan Goal 3:Ensure an Optimal and Competent

Workforce to Fulfill our Mission

Workforce Development

September 2011

Grants and other funders Job requirements Environmental changes Workforce retirements Public Health Standards and Accreditation

Training Drivers

Disciplines◦ Administrative Assistants◦ Case Managers◦ Chemical Dependency

Counselors◦ Environmental Health

Specialists◦ Epidemiologists◦ Health Program Specialists◦ Information Technologists◦ Management◦ Nutritionists◦ Public Health Educators◦ Public Health Nurses

Degrees and Certification◦ Chemical Dependency◦ Early Childhood Specialists◦ Laboratory Biologists◦ Medical Doctor◦ Nutritionists◦ Registered Nurses◦ Sanitarians

Safety Regulations◦ WSHA

Bloodborne Pathogens First Aid

◦ Liability Insurer Auto and Forklift Safety Other Safety Issues

Job Requirements (Examples)

Healthcare Reform Health Informatics Technology Emerging Health Issues Legislative Bills – New and Revised Accreditation and Quality Improvement Systems Change Socio-Ecological Framework Policy Work

Environmental Changes

Public Health Standard 8.2Maintain a Competent PH Workforce

8.2.2 Implement an agency workforce development plan that addresses the training needs of the staff and the development of core competencies

Use nationally adopted core competencies

Use results from customer satisfaction studies

Use other means to identify training needs based on functions of agency

Public Health Competencies

Core PH Competencies

Discipline Competencies

Job Specific Competencies

All staff should know about SRHD’s policies and procedures.

Environmental Health Specialists should know the regulations they operate

under.

Tobacco program public health educators should know the tobacco

RCWs they work to enforce.

8 Domains:Analytical/Assessment Policy Development/Program Planning Communication Emergency ResponseCommunity Dimensions of PracticePublic Health SciencesFinancial Planning and ManagementLeadership and Systems Thinking

Public Health Competencies

Agency Training Team• Gwen Dutt, HIPAA/QA Coordinator• Cindy Jobb, Clinic Manager• Kim Kramarz, Admin Manager• Marion Lee, HP Public Health Educator• Barb Lorang, HR Manager, Team Chair• Paula Maxwell, Client Services Manager• Ida Ovnicek, Oral Health Manager• Tiffany Reed, Emergency Preparedness

Educator• Lyndia Tye, Director and Executive Team

Liaison• Sue Winters, HR Specialist

1. Workforce Development Plan2. Agency and Community Resource

Awareness3. Leadership and Management Skills

Training Team Focus

◦ Competencies: Public Health Concepts Agency Governance Policy Development

◦ Strategic Plan: Health Equity and Socio-Ecological Model (Goal 4) Collaborative Leadership (Goal 5) Program Evaluation and Quality Improvement (Goal 6)

◦ Management Identified: Technology Customer Service

2011-2012 Training Needs

Bi-Weekly Newsletter◦ Ten Great Public Health Achievements, 2001-10

Monthly Self-Study Classes called Training Wheels◦ PH 101 on-line, 1 hour mandatory (September)◦ HIT course, on-line, 1 hour voluntary (October)◦ QI courses, webinars, 2-4 hours voluntary (All Year)

Monthly Management Meetings◦ Various topics, in-person, 1.5 hours, mandatory

Quarterly Emergency Response ◦ Incident Command System and Roles, in-person, 2 hours, mandatory

All-Staff Meeting (October)◦ Governance, accreditation, budget, social determinants, strategic

plan, communications

2011-2012 Agency Training