Billingual Community Health Worker - Full Time
About The Position
The Bilingual Community Health Worker will serve as a resource for program participants, develop referral relationships with healthcare providers and community-based service providers, and perform home visits for education, support, and health assessments. This role involves following up on referrals, assisting families with healthcare access barriers, scheduling appointments, and conducting community outreach. The position also contributes to the development of resource materials, maintains accurate records and data, and completes reports to measure impact. Additionally, the role includes performing administrative duties, maintaining department orderliness, and adhering to downtime procedures and departmental policies. The Community Health Worker must also demonstrate an understanding of and model the mission and core values of Humboldt Park Health, enhance professional growth, and check hospital email daily.
Requirements
- Ability to speak and write English to the extent necessary for safe and efficient performance of the job.
- Completion of Community Health Worker program required (complete within 1 year of hire).
Nice To Haves
- Strong organizational and planning skills.
- Strong preference to read and write in Spanish.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a resource for participants in the program.
- Develop referral relationships with healthcare providers, social workers and other community based service providers.
- Perform home visits for the purpose of providing education, support, home health assessments, obtaining and completing consents.
- Follow-up on provider referrals and assisting families in addressing barriers to health care access.
- Schedule patient appointments.
- Provides outreach to the community.
- Assist in the development of resource materials and preparation and maintenance of accurate records and data.
- Complete all reports to document activities and provide data to measure impact.
- Performs other administrative office duties.
- Maintains department orderliness and cleanliness.
- Adheres to downtime procedures.
- Adheres to established departmental policies, procedures, and objectives.
- Performs both essential and non-essential job functions in a safe manner as identified by Humboldt Park Health.
- Demonstrates an understanding of and models the mission and core values of Humboldt Park Health.
- Enhances professional growth and development by accessing educational programs, job related literature, in-service meetings, and workshops/seminars.
- Checks hospital email daily.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
