Community Health Worker
About The Position
The Community Health Worker (CHW) plays a vital role in educating patients about community resources, assisting them in setting health goals, and navigating the healthcare continuum. This position may require travel to various Stamford Health sites and clinics. The CHW will also provide educational opportunities, collaborate on program strategies, and assist community members with accessing essential services like rent relief, housing, healthy food, and energy assistance. Additionally, the role involves completing Spanish interpreter certification and providing language translations to facilitate access to medical resources.
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 Medicaid.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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