Community Health Worker Student - Training & Impact

Axess Family Services, Inc.; Virginia (MN); On-site; USD 21,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

AxessPointe Community Health Centers seeks a Community Health Worker Student to support at-risk individuals by partnering with community agencies, assisting with navigating health and social services, and promoting healthy behaviors. The role emphasizes on-the-job training, home visits, and connecting clients to Medicaid and a medical home within 14 days of enrollment.

The position is full-time with critical collaboration across AMHA communities, clinics, and shelters, and requires communicating

Responsibilities

• 1. 50% of the position will be working directly in the AMHA communities to assist those residents as well as complete CHW training through Gramercy.
• 2. 50% of the position will be learning from our existing API CHW’s outside of the AMHA community by canvassing clinics, community centers, emergency departments, homeless shelters, and identified hot spot neighborhoods to find and enroll individuals who meet the criteria for being at risk/high risk.
• 3. Attends trainings and monthly meetings and submit documentation of same to supervisor.
• 4. Interviews clients with problems such as personal and family adjustments, health, finances, employment, food, clothing, housing, utilities, and physical and mental impairments; completes appropriate checklist; and brings information back to agency clinical professionals to determine nature and degree of problem.
• 5. Enters information from home visits into electronic health record (eCW) in an accurate and timely manner.
• 6. Secures information such as medical, psychological, and social factors contributing to client’s situation, and forwards information to clinical professionals for evaluation.
• 7. Accesses and records client’s and community’s resource information.
• 8. Advocates for client and acts as a liaison between client and other service providers.
• 9. Counsels client individually, in family or other small groups, regarding plans for meeting needs and aids client to mobilize inner capacities and environmental resources to improve social functioning.
• 10. Helps client and family through individual or group conferences to understand, accept, and follow medical recommendations.
• 11. Reviews care plan developed by clinical professionals and performs appropriate follow-up activities as directed.
• 12. Secures supplementary information such as employment or medical records or school reports as directed.
• 13. Determines client’s eligibility for services such as financial assistance, insurance and other programs in place to assist individuals and refers clients to community resources and other agencies to meet identified needs.

Job description

AxessPointe Community Health Centers seeks a Community Health Worker Student to support at-risk individuals by partnering with community agencies, assisting with navigating health and social services, and promoting healthy behaviors. The role emphasizes on-the-job training, home visits, and connecting clients to Medicaid and a medical home within 14 days of enrollment.

The position is full-time with critical collaboration across AMHA communities, clinics, and shelters, and requires communicating