Community Health Worker

Pioneers Memorial Healthcare District; California (MO); On-site; USD 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Pioneers Memorial Healthcare District is seeking a Community Health Worker to help patients and families navigate community services and adopt healthy behaviors. The role emphasizes building trust with the community and collaborating with providers and partners.

The CHW will educate individuals and groups on health topics, provide referrals, support enrollment processes, collect and relay program data, and maintain confidentiality. Flexibility with hours and strong communication are essential.

Qualifications

• Good written and verbal communication skills required for contacts.
• Dedicated to a task with loyalty or integrity.
• Ability to make an impact by contributing to the success of a project.

Responsibilities

• Engage, motivate, and advocate community members to build knowledge and skills for self-directed change and community development.
• Builds and maintains collaborative relationships with the community, clinic staff, and partners.
• Provides education to individuals or groups on health topics including health promotion, testing, vaccination, and support services.
• Provides information and referrals to community resources to improve health and address social needs.
• Assists patients in accessing health services and enrollment forms.
• Collects data and provides feedback to evaluation teams and program management.
• Uses assigned technology to complete job functions and documents confidential information.
• Reports on program implementation, client outcomes, and stories with highlights or recommendations.
• Performs other duties as required by lead care manager and department needs.

Skills

Communication

Flexibility

Advocacy

Education & Outreach

Data collection

Education

High School or better

Job description

The Community Health Worker (CHW) is responsible for helping patients and their families to navigate and access community services, other resources and adopt healthy behaviors. The Community Health Worker is a trusted member of and/ or a person who has an unusually close understanding of the community served in the delivery of health-related services through either working directly with providers or their partner organizations. This trusting relationship with the community enables CHW's to serve as a liaison between health and social services and the community to facilitate members' access to community services and improve the quality and cultural competence of services delivered. CHW's build individual and community capacity by increasing health knowledge and self-sufficiency through a range of activities such as outreach, community education, informal counseling, social support, and advocacy.

• Engage, motivate, and advocate community members to build knowledge and skills for self- directed change and community development.
• Builds and maintains collaborative and positive relationships with community, clinic staff, and clinic partners.
• Provides education to individuals or groups on topics related to health and health promotion, which may include sexual and reproductive health, communicable disease prevention, testing, vaccination, and support services.
• Provides information and referrals to community resources necessary to improve health or address health-related social needs. Including, but not limited to, food and nutrition, housing security, economic support, and legal services.
• Assists and/or navigating patients in accessing health-related services and community resources, such as appointments and assistance with enrollment forms.
• Collects data and information as required by the evaluation plan and processes. Provides feedback to evaluation team and program management on evaluation process issues.
• Uses assigned technology to complete job functions effectively.
• Maintain and document confidential information.
• Reports on program implementation, data of individuals receiving assistance, and client stories sharing highlights, challenges, and recommendations.
• Provides ongoing support and services for clients as needed.
• Performs other job duties as required by lead care manager.

All other duties as required and assigned.

• Flexible with varying hours based on the needs of the department.
• Good written and verbal communication skills required for contacts.

Within other departments, patients, families, the community, and medical staff

Qualifications

Behaviors

Required

Dedicated

Dedicated: Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity

Motivations

Required

Ability to Make an Impact

Ability to Make an Impact: Inspired to perform well by the ability to contribute to the success of a project or the organization

Flexibility

Flexibility: Inspired to perform well when granted the ability to set your own schedule and goals

Education

Preferred

High School or better.

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