Community Health Worker Coordinator
About The Position
The Community Health Worker (CHW) Coordinator is experienced in the work of a CHW to provide support, education, and advocacy to individual clients and to the community. The CHW Coordinator should be someone knowledgeable of the community culture and languages spoken in the geography of service, showing a high level of cultural competence. The CHW Coordinator demonstrates strong leadership and ensures the CHW team provides clients and community members with accurate information about health and community services with the goal of reducing identified health disparities. The CHW Coordinator also monitors and drives toward the achievement of all program goals and objectives providing consistent oversight and support to CHW team. The Community Health Worker Coordinator creates and monitors all CHW assignments as appropriate, which may include client caseload, program documentation, as well as the daily human resources activities relative to CHW work schedules, attendance, and performance.
Requirements
- Work requires Bachelor degree in related field and/or Bachelor of Social Work
- 3-5 years of work as CHW or similar role
- Supervisory experience and experience working with CHWs is required
- Knowledge of and a strong desire to help residents of the HCPC service area is essential
Nice To Haves
- Bi-lingual in Spanish or Arabic highly preferred
- Approved relevant education may be considered
Responsibilities
- Provide support, education, and advocacy to individual clients and to the community
- Demonstrates strong leadership
- Ensures the CHW team provides clients and community members with accurate information about health and community services with the goal of reducing identified health disparities
- Monitors and drives toward the achievement of all program goals and objectives providing consistent oversight and support to CHW team
- Creates and monitors all CHW assignments as appropriate, which may include client caseload, program documentation, as well as the daily human resources activities relative to CHW work schedules, attendance, and performance.
