Community Health Worker (SOM, Pediatric Emergency Medicine)

Johns Hopkins University•Baltimore, MD

1d•$16 - $27•Hybrid

About The Position

SOM Emergency Medicine is seeking a Community Health Worker (CHW). The CHW will actively promote primary and secondary prevention services through team-based care delivered primarily in Baltimore city public schools and other identified community sites. The CHW will be in close contact with the program co-directors and serve as a link between the schools, the hospital, and other referral destinations for children and adolescents with psychiatric emergencies. This position will be supervised by the co-directors of the hospital-school liaison program for suicide prevention.

Requirements

High school diploma or graduation equivalent.
Two years of related experience.
Additional education may substitute for required experience to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Nice To Haves

Fluent English (additional knowledge of Spanish preferred).
Experience working with and/or is from the target community.
Must have his/her own transportation to travel around the study areas and be comfortable working in the field, including interacting regularly with children and adolescents and their parents about mental health-related subject matters.
Strong organizational skills with ability to work independently and prioritize multiple tasks.
Must be willing to be trained as a community health worker.

Responsibilities

Coordinate services for students in schools who need outside support for psychiatric emergencies.
Co-lead educational sessions with families in schools.
Establish rapport with school staff and students.
Provide general information regarding the project to community and school members.
Respond to inquiries about the project, including face-to-face, over the phone/text, and web-based conversations.
Assist the team with data collection, make outreach and data collection schedule reminder calls and emails, prepare outreach and follow-up data collection materials.
Monitor recruitment and retention of project participants
Document outreach and follow-up activities and enter data as appropriate in a timely, accurate, and comprehensive manner per project protocol.
File, retrieve, and maintain participant records.
Perform all work activities per established protocols and procedures.
Attend weekly meetings and trainings.
Maintain confidentiality of all participants in accordance with employers’ procedures.
With appropriate training and supervision as needed by employer, deliver intervention program to enrolled schools.
Other duties as appropriately assigned.