UNIV-Community Health Worker, College of Nursing

Medical University of South Carolina • Charleston, SC

5d • $46,206 - $78,540 • Hybrid

About The Position

The TRRP+ Community Health Worker (CHW) is a grant-funded position responsible for patient outreach, screening, and coordinating social care for traumatic injury patients from bedside through discharge. The CHW collaborates with various teams and organizations to address socio-economic barriers to health for individuals with unmet social, medical, and behavioral needs. This role involves serving as a patient advocate, educating patients about community resources, facilitating assistance, completing assessments and enrollment forms, and gathering data from various sources including the electronic medical record and social determinants of health screening tools. The CHW interacts with patients in person, telephonically, or electronically and will work within a hybrid model, both onsite and in the community.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in public/community health/social work OR in public/community health or healthcare related field with a minimum of two (2) years of experience in a directly related field or working in a community-based setting including paid or volunteer activity with a non-profit organization, church, healthcare organization, neighborhood community center, or other relevant community-based involvement.
• Completion of SCCHW Certification within 6 months of hire: https://www.scchwa.org/credentialing-information-learners and/or other Community Health Worker training course.
• Valid driver’s license, an acceptable 3-year motor vehicle as defined by the Acceptable Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) Chart, and a certificate of auto-insurance.
• Good organizational and time-management skills
• Ability to work independently with accountability and exercise sound judgment, discretion and professionalism at all times.
• Ability to travel and independently meet with patients in the clinic, home or community-based setting.
• A bachelor's degree and two years professional experience in human services or social services programs.
• Ability to deal effectively with stressful situations.
• Ability to learn and use new processes, tools and equipment as required.
• Computer literacy.
• Ability to work overtime as required.
• Ability to work rotating shifts.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with patients, family members/caregivers, healthcare professionals and community-based organizations to address social care needs and socio-economic barriers to health to provides resource navigation services to adult traumatic injury patients and family members/caregivers through the provision of education and information about available community resources and services ; by building relationships with traumatic injury patients and community-based organizations and follows up to close the loop and ensure needed services are received
• Conducts bedside and telephone-based screening and assessments to identify appropriate resources for patients being seen by the TRRP+ team following traumatic injury to assist with their unmet social needs
• Gathers information, documents, and enters data into the electronic medical record, social care electronic platforms and other identified tools and contributes to data analysis
• Summarizes progress to leadership team on a regular basis to keep them aware of the success and to engage them in quality initiative/improvement process

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level