Health Educator (RN) Part Time, Medicine

University at Buffalo; Buffalo (NY); On-site; USD 25,000 - 48,000; Part time

Job summary

The Division of Population Health, Department of Medicine within the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences seeks a Health Educator. You will deliver protocol driven health education interventions to study participants via face-to-face, telephone, or videoconferencing; the ideal candidate is detail‑oriented, collaborative, and adaptable in a fast-paced environment.

Work hours are daytime with a consistent schedule; part-time 20 hours per week, no nights, weekends, holidays, or on-call

Qualifications

• Knowledge of biology, clinical judgement, documentation, records management, and cultural awareness.
• Building trust, collaboration, decision‑making, communication, critical thinking, and influencing skills.
• Customer focus, interpersonal, empathy, listening, and patience.

Responsibilities

• Deliver protocol driven health education interventions to study participants.
• Scheduling and coordinating sessions, attend and participate in supervision sessions, record sessions as directed, and perform research health educator data collection during initial visit and follow-up sessions.
• Organizing and reminding study participants of upcoming appointments.
• Training study participants on key elements of study protocol.
• Collecting blood and other biological specimen samples.
• Measuring and recording vital signs and anthropometric measures.
• Reviewing, calibrating, and performing quality control assessments of lab equipment.
• Serving as a liaison with lab staff to triage and interpret results.
• Assisting with multiple research grants as needed with tasks to support PI in writing and presenting research reports and research protocols.
• Performing duties including case management and decision making and working collaboratively with other center personnel to achieve goals of research studies.
• Serving as liaison to various team members to ensure smooth running of research projects.
• Providing health education to community sites, establish and nurture community partnerships, work with designated community sites to advance research, education, and training mission of the center.

Skills

Biology knowledge

Clinical judgement

Documentation

Records management

Cultural awareness

Communication

Critical thinking

Empathy

Listening

Patience

Job description

The Division of Population Health, Department of Medicine within the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences seeks a Health Educator. In this role as a Health Educator, you will deliver protocol driven health education interventions to study participants within the Division of Population Health via face-to-face, telephone, or videoconferencing technology as appropriate). The ideal candidate will practice strategic thinking, attention to detail, be dependable, enjoy working in a highly collaborative setting, and remain flexible in a fast-paced environment.

• This role offers a consistent daytime schedule with no nights, weekends, holidays, or on‑call requirements

Primary Functions

40% - Protocol-driven health education and participant support tasks

• Delivering protocol driven health education interventions to study participants.
• Scheduling and coordinating sessions, attend and participate in supervision sessions, record sessions as directed, and perform research health educator data collection during initial visit and follow-up sessions.
• Organizing and reminding study participants of upcoming appointments.
• Training study participants on key elements of study protocol.

30% – Clinical research support tasks

• Collecting blood and other biological specimen samples
• Measuring and recording vital signs and anthropometric measures
• Reviewing, calibrating, and performing quality control assessments of lab equipment
• Serving as a liaison with lab staff to triage and interpret results

30% – Research coordination and community engagement tasks

• Assisting with multiple research grants as needed with tasks to support PI in writing and presenting research reports and research protocols.
• Performing duties needed including case management and decision‑making and working collaboratively with other center personnel to achieve goals of research studies.
• Serving as liaison to various team members to ensure smooth running of research projects.
• Providing health education to community sites, establish and nurture community partnerships, work with designated community sites to advance research, education, and training mission of the center.

Knowledge – Skills – Abilities:

• Knowledge of biology, clinical judgement, documentation, records management, and cultural awareness.
• Building trust, collaboration, decision‑making skills, communication, critical thinking, and influencing skills.
• Customer focus, interpersonal, empathy, listening, and patience.

Work Hours

Part Time (20 hours per week), typically scheduled between the hours of 7am-6pm.

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• Being a part of the University at Buffalo community.

As an Equal Opportunity / Affimative Action employer, the Research Foundation will not discriminate in its employment practices due to an applicant’s race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin and veteran or disability status.