Community Health Worker - Mobile Health Unit

Westside Family Healthcare•Dover, DE

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

Westside Family Healthcare is seeking a Community Health Worker for its Mobile Health Unit. This role focuses on outreach to migratory and seasonal agricultural worker (MSAW) populations, connecting them with healthcare services and collaborating partners. The Community Health Worker will travel to farms and labor camps to address health and social service needs, act as a liaison with social service agencies, and participate in health fairs as a lay health educator. Outside of the harvesting season, the role involves projects related to the MSAW population and other community members, including travel to community service centers to address health and social service needs. Westside Family Healthcare, a nonprofit organization founded in 1988, is dedicated to providing high-quality primary medical care regardless of the ability to pay, aiming to improve community health and achieve health equity for all.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED
Two years of related experience, such as community services, the healthcare environment or social services work
Fluency in written and spoken English and Spanish, or English and another language spoken by migratory and seasonal agricultural workers working in Delaware.
Six months of experience using computers and Microsoft Office software
Driver’s license and clean driving record

Nice To Haves

Associate or bachelor’s degree in education, business, psychology or another health-related field
Experience in providing services to seasonal and/or migratory agricultural workers.

Responsibilities

Maintain relationships with managers and crew leaders to gain access to migratory and seasonal agricultural workers and update crew.
Travel to farms weekly to provide social service resources, health education, enabling services and follow-up to migratory and seasonal agricultural workers.
Register all migratory and seasonal agricultural workers in the electronic medical system, update current patient demographic and insurance information and document all services via Social Services Encounters.
Assist all migratory and seasonal agricultural workers who need help with completing any necessary paperwork.
Evaluate financial circumstances, collect payments and co-payments from patients, reconcile daily charges and payments according to route slips.
Utilize designated assessment tool for assessing the overall health and social service needs of agricultural workers and their family members.
Develop, organize, translate, and produce culturally sensitive and competent health education materials needed for agricultural worker outreach and educational events geared towards the targeted population and participate in health education activities.
Attend community meetings and participate in community events/fairs.
Refer uninsured patients to enrollment services for assistance.
In the offseason, assist with MSAW (Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker) related projects as directed and assist patients with in-office health services.
During offseason, participate in outreach and clinical events of non-MSAW populations as directed by MSAW supervisor and Associate Director.