How To Become A Community Health Consultant: What It Is and Career Path

What is a community health consultant and how to become one

Updated January 8, 2025

3 min read

Quoted expert

Dr. Shari DeVeney Ph.D., CCC-SLP

There is more than meets the eye when it comes to being a community health consultant. For example, did you know that they make an average of $21.93 an hour? That's $45,608 a year! Between 2018 and 2028, the career is expected to grow 12% and produce 15,200 job opportunities across the U.S.

What general advice would you give to a community health consultant?

Dr. Shari DeVeney Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Graduate Program Chair, Department of Special Education & Communication Disorders, Omaha

There are a number of skills that will become increasingly important in health and wellness fields over the next 3-5 years. One of these is expanding capacity for interdisciplinary collaboration. Efficiently and successfully addressing complex health, wellness, and/or educational issues often requires collaboration across different professional disciplines. Effective communication is essential for these kinds of collaborations. You will need to be able to contribute to a team and work well with others to explain complex concepts specific to your area of the field with clients and colleagues as well as provide complementary - not overlapping or contradictory - clinical services with your professional partners. Additionally, cultural competence -showing respect and understanding of cultural backgrounds, beliefs, and values that differ from your own - will become increasingly important for effective clinical practices within a pluralistic society. Finally, skills related to successful and appropriate remote care delivery are important to cultivate. The rise of tele-medicine, tele-therapy, and remote client monitoring will require health and wellness professionals to adapt their skill sets so they can not only provide high-quality care through in-person interactions, but also through remote formats.

ScoreCommunity Health ConsultantUS Average

Salary

3.6

Avg. Salary $45,608

Avg. Salary $59,228

Stability level

7.7

Growth rate 12%

Growth rate 0.3%

Diversity

10.0

Race

American Indian and Alaska Native 1.33%

Asian 7.35%

Black or African American 11.45%

Hispanic or Latino 15.24%

Unknown 6.42%

White 58.22%

Gender

female 78.82%

male 21.18%

Age - 42

Race

American Indian and Alaska Native 3.00%

Asian 7.00%

Black or African American 14.00%

Hispanic or Latino 19.00%

White 57.00%

Gender

female 47.00%

male 53.00%

Age - 42

Stress level

7.7

Stress level is high

7.1 - high

Complexity level

8.6

Complexity level is advanced

7 - challenging

Work life balance

9.1

Work life balance is excellent

6.4 - fair

Key steps to become a community health consultant

Explore community health consultant education requirements

Most common community health consultant degrees

Bachelor's

54.6 %

Master's

27.6 %

Associate

6.6 %

Start to develop specific community health consultant skills

Skills	Percentages
Public Health	31.94%
Community Outreach	15.04%
Health Education	13.97%
Medicaid	7.89%
Primary Care	7.27%

Complete relevant community health consultant training and internships

Accountants spend an average of 1-3 months on post-employment, on-the-job training. New community health consultants learn the skills and techniques required for their job and employer during this time. The chart below shows how long it takes to gain competency as a community health consultant based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data and data from real community health consultant resumes.

Research community health consultant duties and responsibilities

Engage with members' telephonically, using motivational interviewing techniques to assist members' in achieving their health goals.
Assist with provisioning all users for HMS access and Fluencey Mmodal.
Develop, build, test and implement HMS applications to create electronic patient health records.
Educate community health advocates on CPR, first aid, and prevention of communicable diseases.

Apply for community health consultant jobs

Now it's time to start searching for a community health consultant job. Consider the tips below for a successful job search:

Browse job boards for relevant postings
Consult your professional network
Reach out to companies you're interested in working for directly
Watch out for job scams

How do community health consultants rate their job?

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Community health consultant reviews

A zippia user wrote a review on May 2020

Cons

People being mistreated

A zippia user wrote a review on Feb 2020

Cons

Housework.. Heavy lifting. Grocery shopping for others.

A zippia user wrote a review on May 2019

Pros

Helping other people who can't help themself

Cons

Not teaming up because I trust team work is always the best to acquire knowledge and provide good result.

What is a community health consultant and how to become one

What general advice would you give to a community health consultant?

Key steps to become a community health consultant

Explore community health consultant education requirements

Most common community health consultant degrees

Start to develop specific community health consultant skills

Complete relevant community health consultant training and internships

Research community health consultant duties and responsibilities

Apply for community health consultant jobs

How did you land your first community health consultant job

Average community health consultant salary

How do community health consultants rate their job?

Community health consultant reviews