Community Health Navigator
About The Position
As a Community Health Navigator, you will serve as a vital link between underserved communities and essential community resources. This role is instrumental in reducing health disparities by helping clients navigate and access critical health, social, educational, and employment services through a home-visiting model. Daily tasks involve proactively engaging with clients through home visits, meticulously assessing their needs, and identifying specific Pathways to care and support. You will connect clients to identified community resources, provide guidance on accessing medical, behavioral health, and social services, and offer practical assistance to overcome logistical obstacles. Success in this role requires a profound understanding of the cultural and geographical nuances of underserved communities, strong problem-solving abilities, empathy, and resilience to effectively remove barriers to care and empower clients.
Requirements
- High School Diploma
- Experience in a healthcare setting working with patients, healthcare services, medicalgroups and payors
- 1-2 years of experience as a community health worker or in a community setting
- Driver's License: CA
Nice To Haves
- Associate Degree in a healthcare related field
Responsibilities
- Serve as a vital link between underserved communities and essential community resources.
- Reduce health disparities by helping clients navigate and access critical health, social, educational, and employment services through a home-visiting model.
- Proactively engage with clients through home visits.
- Meticulously assess client needs and identify specific Pathways to care and support.
- Connect clients to identified community resources.
- Provide guidance on accessing medical, behavioral health, and social services.
- Offer practical assistance to overcome logistical obstacles.
- Provide Health education to promote health or address barriers to equitable physical and mental health care, including providing instruction or translation for health topics.
- Support the patient through the use of community resources and services to prevent and/or manage disease and to promote the physical and mental health of patients.
- Provide information, referrals, obtain authorizations or support to assist patients to access health care & understand the health care system.
- Connect to community resources necessary to promote health and address barriers, including medical interpretation, translation, or transportation services; or to address health-related social needs.
- Perform outreach and resource coordination to encourage and facilitate use of preventive services.
- Help patients enroll or maintain enrollment in assistance programs related to improving health.
- Perform screening and assessment that does not require a license and that assists the patient to connect to appropriate services to improve their health.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
