Community Health Worker
About The Position
The Community Health Worker (CHW) plays a vital role in educating patients about community resources, assisting them with health-related goals, and navigating the healthcare system. This position involves travel to various Stamford Health sites and clinics, providing educational opportunities, and collaborating with the CHW program coordinator/manager. The CHW will also be responsible for completing Spanish interpreter certification and providing language translations to help community members access medical resources and essential services like rent relief, housing, healthy food, and energy assistance. Additionally, the CHW will assist community members with applications for FAP or direct them to resources for Medicaid applications.
Requirements
- Spanish interpreter certification
Responsibilities
- Educate patients about relevant community resources appropriate to their needs.
- Help patients set personal health related goals.
- Assist patients access transportation for appointments.
- Navigate patients through the care continuum including appointment scheduling, visit completion, follow-up coordination and verification with the physician that the patient understood the results of the visit.
- Provide educational opportunities via lectures on health-related topics.
- Collaborate on strategy and program roll-out, report on barriers and successes of the program to the CHW program coordinator/manager.
- Complete Spanish interpreter certification.
- Provide language translations at the hospital and in the community to help access medical resources.
- Assist community members find services such as rent relief, housing, healthy food and energy assistance.
- Assist community members with applications for FAP or direct them to resources for Medicaid application.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
