Applications open for Lead Ambassador teams
Crossposted from KC Employee Giving
We are now accepting applications for Rock Stars (or aspiring Rock Stars) to join our Lead Ambassador teams across the county. This is a great role if you are interested in building or breathing fresh air into your leadership employee experience. You will be building skills in developing and motivating others, project management, and working with leaders across all levels of the organization. AND you get to make a difference. Sounds like a great day!
Check our top 5 reasons to get involved here.
As a lead Ambassador you will:
- Work with the department or separately elected office to develop strategies, goals, and communications.
- Recruit, train, and mentor the department Ambassador team.
- Recognize and celebrate your team’s hard work and success!
It is distinguished from the Ambassador team in that you are working at the department level, empowering, and supporting the Ambassador teams to give every King County Employee a quality opportunity to use the program. Download our flyer here.
Check out what you can do for your team!
Read more at KC Employee Giving
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PTE17 includes Administrative Professionals event in magazine
Local 17 featured the April Administrative Professionals Recognition event in a recent issue of its Insight publication, highlighting notable participants, speakers and the importance of honoring administrative employees for their work. It shares:
“Based on feedback received from attendees and award recipients, the engaging event helps Administrative Professionals feel honored, valued and appreciated. It also reaffirms that King County is a wonderful place to work.”
The Administrative Professionals Program and Career Support Services were also both featured in the June 21 Metropolitan King County Council: Annual Labor Summit.
To read the full PTE17 article, click here, page 8. To learn more about the Administrative Professionals Program visit www.kingcounty.gov/administrativeprofessionals.
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Big Backyard 5k raises money for local parks
Nearly 1,000 walkers and runners took part in King County Parks’ eight annual Big Backyard 5K presented by Kaiser Permanente on Sunday, June 11, 2017, and participants did more than just get a Sunday morning workout.
The proceeds of the event, which took place at Marymoor Park in Redmond, go toward the maintenance and operations of King County Parks.
“The Big Backyard 5k is a great event that our employees, supporters and volunteers put on for runners and walkers across our community,” said King County Parks Director Kevin Brown. “Not only does it showcase one of the crown jewels in our parks system but it raises money for the ongoing maintenance and upkeep of King County Parks.”
Sophia Liu set a new record for women in the event with a time of 17:50, finishing in fifth place overall. Andrew Olsen took first place with a time of 16:53. Thank you to all who supported this year’s event.
View the event photos here.
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ACEs work featured in regional publication
Pictured: Barbara Huffman, RN, treating a client inside King County’s Mobile Medical Van.
The Community Health Services Division “ACEs Collaborative” group is featured in the current issue of “Northwest Public Health,” published by the University of Washington’s Northwest Center for Public Health Practice. ACEs stands for Adverse Childhood Experiences, and refers to an influential study on the impacts of childhood trauma on lifelong health. From the ACEs study, a body of learning has emerged nationally that challenges agencies and organizations to understand the impacts of trauma and help build resiliency.
The article, entitled “Hope and Healing: Training a Workforce to Better Support Health,” describes the staff-led work of the Collaborative over the past several years. They defined core principles, goals, and a shared framework; assessed training needs in the division; and began building staff awareness, knowledge and skill around trauma informed and resilience-promoting practices. The ACEs Collaborative group continues to meet regularly. Public Health is building on this work at the departmental level with support from a new Kresge Foundation grant, as well as through the Best Starts for Kids initiative in partnership with DCHS.
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Treatment plants go ‘Platinum’ in 2016
Crossposted from Clean Water Stories
Another year, another stellar performance that earned national recognition for our treatment plant operations.
Four of our plants were honored with Platinum Peak Performance Awards from the National Association of Clean Water Agencies headquartered in Washington D.C. To earn the awards, the treatment plants must meet 100 percent compliance with the effluent discharge limits set by permits under the federal Clean Water Act and the state’s Water Pollution Control Law.
Our Carnation Treatment Plant earned its first Platinum award for five consecutive years of perfect compliance with its discharge requirements.
Read more at Clean Water Stories
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From police dispatcher to King County Prosecutor’s Office
Crossposted from the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office Facebook
Most people’s worst days were Michelle Lorraine’s every day for nearly 14 years as a police dispatcher for the Greater Seattle area. When people reached a crisis moment and dialed 911 for an emergency, it was Michelle who answered the phone calls and determined the appropriate course of action.
“You can go from an active police incident with a shooting, to your next call being someone who is calling in with a parking complaint or because the neighbor’s dog pooped in their yard. Whatever the call is, it’s a vital emergency to the person calling, and you have to maintain your professionalism at all times,” Michelle says.
She’s handled suicide and domestic violence calls which spike over the holidays, and she says calls where children are victims can be emotional to handle, but Michelle has never lost her composure on the job.
Read more at the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office Facebook.
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King County celebrates a facility – and a community
Crossposted from Clean Water Stories
When King County Wastewater Treatment Division (WTD) dedicates a new wastewater facility, we invite people near and far to join us. Celebrations provide an ideal opportunity to thank project communities for their role in the project and their patience during the process. People get to see firsthand how public input shaped a neighborhood’s new clean water asset.
King County welcomed about 200 people to dedicate the Murray Wet Weather Facility in West Seattle on a sunny Saturday in June. Visitors arrived on foot, bikes, or by car. The youngest rolled up in strollers. Some visitors were on leash, wearing collars.
Read more at Clean Water Stories
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King County Accountable Community of Health welcomes first Executive Director
Crossposted from Public Health Insider
This week, the King County Accountable Community of Health (ACH) Governing Board welcomed Susan McLaughlin, PhD as its first Executive Director. Susan will provide leadership, overall strategy, operations and work to build collaboration across multiple partners working for better health in the King County region.
A central focus is bringing together partners to implement the Medicaid Transformation Project Demonstration in our county. This is a strategic opportunity to attract significant federal investment to our region to improve health outcomes and address the social and economic factors that impact health.
Read more at Public Health Insider
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Featured Job: Transit Employee and Labor Relations Manager
Closing Date/Time: Sun. 07/02/17 11:59 PM Pacific Time
Salary: $106,870.40 – $135,470.40 Annually
Job Type: Career Service, Full Time, 40 hrs/week
Location: King Street Center – 201 S Jackson St, Seattle, Washington
Department: Department of Transportation – Transit Division
Description: King County Metro Transit is looking for an energetic and passionate leader to successfully manage our Employee & Labor Relations Program. The incumbent in this position administers the provisions of King County Metro Transit’s Employee & Labor Relations program. The scope of responsibilities includes overseeing broad, complex, and potentially politically sensitive issues. This position reports directly to the Transit Assistant General Manager for Employee Services and works closely with Transit’s General Manager and Strategic Leadership Team. The position effectively partners with senior management across the agency in monitoring, implementing, and maintaining an effective program of ELR service delivery and compliance.
Learn more about this position, or view all available jobs.
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Showing up for LGBTQ communities
Crossposted from Public Health Insider
By Jesse Chipps, HIV/AIDS Planning Council Coordinator at Public Health – Seattle & King County
Pictured: From left to right, Leah Holland, Jesse Chipps, Ronan Cox and Darron Lewis, a few staff from Public Health’s proud LGBTQ community.
June is National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month, and each year at this time hundreds of King County employees, department directors and public officials march together in Seattle’s Pride Parade. Rainbow tinsel laden vehicles, bubble machines, and matching t-shirts pull the group together as One King County.
Same sex marriage became legal in Washington State on December 6, 2012, at midnight. While couples who had waited for decades to marry could have waited another few hours until the King County Recorder’s Office opened the next morning, King County Executive Dow Constantine began issuing licenses, personally, at 12:01 a.m.
One of the county’s core values is to be “fair and just” in all we do in order to achieve equitable opportunities for all people and communities. This language was passed into law in 2010 by a unanimous vote of the County Council. The ordinance reflects the values if those who live and work here.
To see photos of King County employees participating in Seattle’s Pride Parade, click here.
Read more at Public Health Insider
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