Health Mentor

Are you looking for:

• A fun, flexible work environment where you can help shape the future of sexual healthcare in Minnesota and make a positive impact on young people’s lives?
• An organization committed to patient-centered care including longer scheduled patient appointment times?
• A predictable work schedule with generous benefits and paid time off? (Full-time employees qualify for up to 37 paid days off in their first year!)

Who We Are

The Annex Teen Clinic provides sexual health care and education for young adults through age 25 in a friendly, non-judgmental, and comfortable atmosphere.  Our services are low-cost, medically accurate, and developmentally appropriate. The Annex Teen Clinic has been providing services in Northwest Hennepin County and North Minneapolis since 1971. The Annex is committed to diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Why You’ll Love Working Here

The Annex Teen Clinic is the industry leader in sexual health and education for young people through the age of 25. We pride ourselves on creating a comfortable, relaxed, and social work environment for mission-driven employees. Our services are low-cost, medically accurate, non-judgmental, and inclusive. We provide the full range of birth control methods, STI testing and treatment, pregnancy testing and all-options counseling and referrals, as well as sexuality education.

Wage and Benefits

• $22 per hour
• Generous paid time off
• Competitive health, dental, life and disability and vision insurance 
• Agency sponsored retirement plan with immediate vesting 

A Typical Day in the Life…

A typical day as The Annex’s Health Mentor offers an opportunity to provide a range of sexuality education programming and serve as a resource and support for Robbinsdale Cooper High School around sexuality issues. The Health Mentor will largely work independently, and must collaborate to a high degree with school staff, district staff, community partners, and other Annex Teen Clinic staff, and will include the following:

• Facilitating of sexuality education programs including evidence-based programs, classroom presentations, in school and out of school time small groups, parent education workshops, and outreach events on a range of sexuality topics.
• Identifying, developing, and implementing educational programs and materials that support students’ ability to take charge of their sexual health and fosters healthy sexuality and relationships at the school and in the community.
• Providing one-to-one education, support, and developmentally appropriate information to young people who are seeking guidance, resources, and mentoring on topics such as relationships, sex, sexual health, and accessing health care.
• Recruiting and facilitating a youth leadership council and other small groups as needed.
• Collaborating with school staff and administration to ensure all health mentor services are confidential, culturally relevant, easily accessible, and supported across the school.
• Conducting outreach to raise awareness of health mentor and Annex Teen Clinic services.
• Collaborating with school staff to create and implement a student referral system.
• Building productive relationships and collaborating with Annex staff, school district staff, and community organizations on programming and services.
• Creating, writing, editing, and presenting a variety of materials for general and specialized audiences.
• Providing leadership in advancing sexuality education programs, safe and supportive schools, and policies that support young people’s sexual and reproductive health in the school and community.
• Collecting and reporting data regularly including monthly reports, data collection into an online database, and participant forms.
• Participating in working groups, task forces, and other groups with the Annex Teen Clinic, school, community partners, and Hennepin County as appropriate.
• Engaging in continuous professional development to ensure services are culturally relevant, trauma-informed, inclusive, accessible, and using the most current information available.
• Managing programming independently with limited supervision.

Who You Are

• You hold a college degree in education, youth development, human services, or related field; and two years of experience working with adolescents preferred. An equivalent combination of education, training and experience will be considered.
• You can demonstrate having experience providing fact-based sexuality education (preferred).
• You have experience recruiting and running engaging youth groups (preferred).
• You have experience planning, organizing, coordinating and staffing for promotional efforts at community events and health fairs (preferred).
• You are skilled in planning, prioritizing, and monitoring of work plans.
• You can demonstrate your ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, and changing priorities.
• You have experience with public speaking, facilitation and writing skills.
• You are highly motivated, self-directed, outgoing, organized, and excited to work on a team.
• You are skilled at engaging and building relationships with youth, parents, and community members.
• Your schedule is flexible; some evening and weekend hours are required.
• You are passionate about sexuality education and working with young people from diverse communities.
  
  

Licenses and Certifications:

• Valid driver’s license, access to reliable transportation, and the ability to meet Annex Teen Clinic’s driving record requirements. Please note that if the license was not issued in the state of Minnesota, you have 60 days after becoming a Minnesota resident in which to apply for your Minnesota driver's license or permit (not applicable for new hires living out of state and working remotely).

COVID-19 Protocols: Annex Teen Clinic strongly encourages employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and does not require any employee to be vaccinated.  When Annex Teen Clinic work locations are not in areas identified as high community transmission for flu and/or COVID-19, employees are not required to wear a mask while working. We will monitor updates on community transmission rates for both flu and COVID-19 and update our guidelines as necessary.

Diversity and open expression are fundamental to the work of Annex Teen Clinic. We are passionate about building and sustaining an inclusive and equitable working environment where everyone can belong. Every member of our team enriches our work by exposing us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and to discover, design, and deliver solutions. We welcome everyone to apply, especially those individuals who are underrepresented in our sector: individuals who identify as BIPOC, Indigenous or people of culture, LGBTQI and gender fluid or gender nonconforming, individuals with disabilities (both seen and unseen), veterans, people of any age or family status. We encourage you to apply even if you feel like you don't fit 100% of the technical requirements. Equal Opportunity Employer: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, disability, marital status, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, familial status, genetic information or a protected veteran’s status.

Our organization has a partnership with Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities (MACC) to provide administrative services including management of the recruiting process. If you apply for this position, you may see references to MACC in some online materials.

Annex Teen Clinic participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. See E-Verify’s official poster at https://e-verify.uscis.gov/web/media/resourcesContents/E-Verify_Participation_Poster_ES.pdf. See E-Verify’s Right to Work poster at https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/posters/IER_RightToWorkPoster Eng_Es.pdf.