What would you do as a Health promoter?
Health promoters
- usually work regular business hours but may work extra hours
- usually work in offices, health centres and clinics and may travel locally
- need to be responsible, lead others and communicate well
Tasks
- plan programmes to improve community health
- develop educational policies
- present information and programmes to communities
- organise social and health programme activities
- develop tools to assess needs
- assess people’s social services needs
- collect community health information
- supervise workers
- maintain records
- work with health agencies
How can you become a Health promoter?
You usually need a qualification to become a health promoter and experience may be useful.
You need
- to pass a police check
You may need
- a New Zealand Certificate of Achievement in Introduction to Health Promotion (Level 4)
- a New Zealand Certificate in Public Health and Health Promotion (Level 5) or similar
- a Bachelor of Health Science or similar
- experience in similar work
- to register with the Health Promotion Forum of New Zealand
If you're in school
You usually need NCEA Level 3 to do the study or training for this job.
