Community Health Worker

Job description

Description SUMMARY: The Community Health Worker (CHW) provides community support services by partnering with other community agencies to help at risk / high risk individuals and their families navigate complex social service and health care systems to services to promote healthy behaviors and manage conditions that affect their health and social well-being. This culturally and geographically connected individual serves as a link between underserved communities and existing community resources. Through home visiting, these individual assists clients in overcoming barriers to health, social services, education, and employment by performing the following duties. SUPERVISOR: Director of Community Impact: DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: - Canvases 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. - Connects the client to Medicaid and a medical home for preventive services within 14 days of program enrollment. - Works with the clients to connect them to community social services in order to remove barriers to care (e.g. transportation, housing, men...