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Health Education Specialists
Provide and manage health education programs that help individuals, families, and their communities maximize and maintain healthy lifestyles. Use data to identify community needs prior to planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating programs designed to encourage healthy lifestyles, policies, and environments. May link health systems, health providers, insurers, and patients to address individual and population health needs. May serve as resource to assist individuals, other health professionals, or the community, and may administer fiscal resources for health education programs.
What a health education specialist does
Become a health education specialist
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good health education specialist
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Talking to others.
- Understanding people's reactions.
- Changing what is done based on other people's actions.
- Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.
- Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Average hourly rate is $32 per hour with an average salary of $66,800 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $27 and $36 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $55,600 and $74,500 per year.
Health Education Specialist job outlook
- There are 1,852 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 270 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.