Job Description
Job Title: Oral Health Coordinator
Location: Indianapolis, IN
Duration: 6+months
Type: Contract
Job Description:
Oral Health Educator Job Description:
Overview:
Responsibilities:
Required:
Location: Indianapolis, IN
Duration: 6+months
Type: Contract
Job Description:
- The Oral Health Educator will play a pivotal role in promoting oral health awareness and education across skilled nursing facilities, schools, early learning centers, and community settings.
Oral Health Educator Job Description:
Overview:
- The Oral Health Educator will play a pivotal role in promoting oral health awareness and education across skilled nursing facilities, schools, early learning centers, and community settings. This position will focus on equipping Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs), school nurses, educators, children and families, and community partners with the knowledge and skills needed to support oral hygiene practices, preventive care, and improved oral health outcomes.
Responsibilities:
- Training & Education: Develop and deliver tailored workshops, and training sessions for CNAs, school nurses, early learning centers, and community partners on oral health best practices.
- Resource Development: Create and distribute educational materials such as guides, checklists, pamphlets, posters, videos, and digital content tailored to skilled nursing facilities, school settings, and families.
- Collaboration: Work closely with Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) leadership, school administrators, healthcare professionals, and community organizations to align oral health education with patient care protocols, school health needs, and community-based initiatives.
- Oral Health Advocacy: Promote the importance of oral health in overall health, especially for elderly residents, chronically ill patients, children, and vulnerable populations.
- Support & Guidance: Serve as a resource to CNAs, school nurses, educators, and community partners by providing ongoing support, answering questions, and offering solutions to oral health challenges.
- Outreach & Events: Support planning, coordination, and participation in community outreach events, health fairs, school-based programs, and public health campaigns to expand oral health awareness and access.
- Program Support: Assist with program planning, preparation and distribution of oral health education materials, grant proposals, budgets, data collection, and reporting.
- Evaluation: Monitor and assess the impact of educational programs and outreach activities and recommend improvements to enhance care delivery, school-based prevention, and community engagement.
- Qualifications: Bachelor's degree or certification in Dental Hygiene, Public Health, Education, or a related field.
- Experience delivering health education or training programs, preferably in school, healthcare, long-term care, or community settings.
- Knowledge of oral hygiene practices, common dental conditions, preventive care strategies, and behavior change techniques.
- Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to engage CNAs, school nurses, healthcare teams, educators, families, and community partners.
- Ability to develop accessible, engaging, and culturally appropriate educational materials.
- Familiarity with skilled nursing facility workflows, school health programs, and public health outreach preferred.
- Relevant background in public health, data management, program evaluation, and grant writing preferred.
- Skills: Excellent interpersonal skills to engage with CNAs, school nurses, administrators, healthcare teams, and community stakeholders.
- Ability to present complex oral health information in a clear, accessible, and impactful manner.
- Empathy and understanding when addressing oral health challenges in vulnerable populations.
- Organizational skills to manage multiple training sessions, outreach activities, and program responsibilities.
- Creativity in developing materials and presenting oral health information in an engaging way.
- Proficiency in data management and analysis to support program evaluation and reporting.
- Flexibility to support oral health education needs across long-term care, school, early learning, and community settings.
- Relevant background in public health.
- Prior experience with grant writing preferred.
Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Public Health, Education or a related field.
- Experience in delivering health education or training programs, ideally in a school-based setting, early learning center or healthcare setting.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to develop accessible, engaging, and culturally appropriate educational materials
- Knowledge of oral hygiene practices, common dental issues and preventative care strategies
- Previous oral hygiene experience preferred, but manager willing to consider candidates who are passionate and ready to learn/work in industry.
- Proficiency in data management & analysis.
- Prior experience with grant writing and budgeting
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Indianapolis, IN |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Company Size | 20 to 49 employees |
| Year Founded | 2002 |
| Website | http://crescensinc.com/ |
About Company
Crescens Inc. is an industry leader in providing IT staffing services and tailored workforce solutions to meet the demanding expectations and distinctive needs of clients across the United States and Canada. We have grown tremendously in the past years and have been applauded by our clients for the quality of workforce and the quick turnaround time. We have evolved from good service to great service and all management plans are geared towards quality.
Our vision is to be the best in Talent Acquisition and strive for excellence consistently by focusing on four performance dimensions; Quality, Efficiency, Cost and Risk. A satisfied client and candidate are the backbone to our continued success. Headquartered in New Jersey, we are a team with unique expertise to deliver exceptional results to our clients by setting benchmarks and establishing best practices.
Skills
- Aged Careunmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Budgetingunmatched
- Campaignsunmatched
- Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)unmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Data Analysisunmatched
- Data Collectionunmatched
- Data Managementunmatched
- Dental Hygieneunmatched
- Educational Administrationunmatched
- Event Managementunmatched
- Grant Writingunmatched
- Health Educationunmatched
- Healthcareunmatched
- Interpersonal Skillsunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Long-Term Careunmatched
- Nursingunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Patient Careunmatched
- Patient Educationunmatched
- Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
- Preventive Medicineunmatched
- Program Evaluationunmatched
- Program Planningunmatched
- Public Healthunmatched
- Training Programunmatched
- Training/Teachingunmatched
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